Udzungwa Elephant Project

UEP have been collaborating in creating a brand new website documenting the remaining wildlife corridors of Tanzania – as far as we know, the first of its kind in the world. Included are several important elephant corridors, which continue to be one of our priorities for conservation in southern Tanzania. As we have blogged about before:

Elephants are umbrellas! Conserve elephant corridors, and you are conserving connectivity for a wide range of other animals.

Corridor conservation is tough however, not least because corridors usually pass through the land of several villages. But the benefits for communities and wildlife of managing corridors well, make it impossible not to try. In our area, we are studying and working on ways to conserve the following critical corridors, which are featured on the new website:

Udzungwa-Selous wildlife corridors

Udzungwa-Ruaha wildlife corridor

Udzungwa-Mikumi wildife corridor

We hope you will have time for a browse, and that this website may inspire more people to think about and act on the importance of maintaining ecological connectivity across the landscapes we care about – before it is too late.