Connecting isolated elephant populations by developing corridors to the larger elephant populations has been suggested to increase the long-term survival of the species. In Bengkulu province, a corridor connecting SECC to KSNP has been proposed by Bengkulu Natural Resource and Conservation Agency (BKSDA Bengkulu) to the Directorate General Forest Protection and Nature Conservation, in the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry (PHKA).

This proposal is very important, and scientific information to support this proposal is clearly needed. The goals of this project are to determine elephant dietary ecology and to assess elephant habitat quality around the Seblat Elephant Conservation Center (SECC) in Bengkulu Province, Sumatra and to:

1. investigate elephant dietary ecology in various habitat types;
2. determine elephant movement, home range behavior and habitat use within SECC area and the corridor to Kerinci Seblat National Park (KSNP); and
3. build predictive model of crop raiding around SECC.

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