Thank you for showing an interest and concern for elephants by opening our website. The Amboseli Trust for Elephants’ aim is to learn everything we can about these intelligent, complex and often mysterious animals while at the same time assuring that they have a peaceful and secure future.

I started the Amboseli Elephant Research Project along with my colleague Harvey Croze in 1972. We chose Amboseli because the elephants were relatively undisturbed in the sense that they were not fenced in, were still moving freely in the ecosystem, and were not being heavily poached. What we wanted was to gather base-line data on the biology of a “natural” population. Most important we wanted to study elephants by following individuals over time. More than 40 years later we are following some of the same individuals we met back in 1972 as well as all the Amboseli elephants that have been born since we started. Much of what we know today about wild African elephants is based on our study.

Join us to learn about these amazing elephants and to follow along with us as we watch their lives unfold.

Cynthia Moss
Director and Founder