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Hovering above a bachelor herd of bulls. The bull in the back is perhaps the largest we saw in our week of collaring. An enormous patriarch among matriarchs!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Graham McCulloch and Anna Songhurst, collaring and taking measurements of one of the temporarily sedated elephants.<\/p><\/div>\n

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One of the most experienced wildlife vets in the world, Larry Patterson, with a sedated elephant bull too big for even our collars and Ecoexist director, Amanda Stronza.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our directors, Anna Songhurst and Graham McCulloch, hover above a herd of elephants while fellow director, Amanda Stronza, photographs them from a sky jeep. The end of a rewarding and exciting day collaring elephants!<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2014, we collared 28 elephants and began tracking their movements throughout the Panhandle, both on east and west sides and in border areas. Using the data we already have on elephant pathways, we worked with USAID\u2019s Southern African Regional Environment Programme (SAREP) and Botswana\u2019s Tawana Land Board to help build what\u2019s called a \u201cLand Use Conflict Information System\u201d or LUCIS to the Panhandle. The LUCIS system is essentially a guide government officers, researchers, and communities can use to visualize, discuss, and plan for different kinds of land uses and needs in an area. Bringing data and ideas together for current and ideal land uses, it provides the way forward to identifying and demarcating zones. Once demarcated, the different zones can be monitored and reserved for different uses, both for people and elephants. By providing data and input to the LUCIS system, we can identify potential flashpoints of human-elephant conflicts and also help guard movement corridors for elephants and arable lands for farmers. This kind of land use planning that takes into account the needs and requirements of elephants and people in the same area is really the linchpin for our long-term success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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