Ecoexist Trust

Ecoexist Trust was established in 2013 and has more than ten years of experience working with the mitigation of human-wildlife conflicts. The Ecoexist Trust’s mission is to support the lives and livelihoods of people living with elephants while considering the needs of elephants. Ecoexist has five main pillars, which involve several activities in the field. These include i) Securing movement corridors for elephants to reduce human-wildlife conflict and protect both humans and wildlife; ii) Facilitating private sector support for community-based tourism opportunities; iii) Facilitating innovative short-term strategies for human-wildlife and human-human conflict; iv) Improving farmer resilience and food security through Elephant Aware Farming; and v) Understanding the social and ecological landscape. Ecoexist is well placed as a host partner in this project to accommodate and demonstrate some of the human-elephant coexistence strategies we are working on. Our field camp can form the base of the exchange trip and we can facilitate site visits to Human Elephant Conflict mitigation demonstrations and the elephant corridors.