The only way to study the movement and home ranges of these elephants is to use GPS collars. An initial collaring exercise was undertaken in September 2005, but all but one of these collars has failed.

This project will provide new information on elephant distribution, movements, and human-elephant conflicts to relevant decision makers at the local, national and international levels.

This study will contribute to the conservation of elephants in Namibia by:

1. filling an important data gap on Omusati elephants,



2. 2) by continuing long term monitoring of desert-dwelling elephants in the Kunene, and



3. 3) providing capacity-building for local people that will ultimately reduce human-elephant conflict in this region.

IEF funding supports the purchase of 6 GPS collars, satellite time and aircraft monitoring costs.