Description
Founded in 2013 by a multidisciplinary team, Ecoexist takes a holistic approach to finding practical, affordable, effective and lasting ways for people and elephants to coexist. Our mission: to support the lives and livelihoods of people who share space with elephants while considering the needs of elephants and their habitats. We address the needs for people to be safe, food secure and gain benefits from living with elephants, while ensuring habitat security and vital elephant corridors are maintained for safe passage. Identifying and supporting entrepreneurs and small-medium enterprises enables us to ensure more people benefit from non-consumptive value chains in both the tourism and agriculture sectors. Creating incentives and making sure elephants are valued by rural households is crucial to the sustainability of our solutions. We work on the ground and at policy level to facilitate multi-stakeholder partnerships, which also contributes, alongside awareness, education and policy-level engagement as key contributors to the long-term success of our efforts.
