Month: May 2016

Month: May 2016

Kenya Wildlife Service Ivory Burn

Ivory Burn

On April 30 106 tons of ivory was set ablaze in Nairobi National Park. This ivory represented around 6,700 dead elephants and 450 dead rhinos with a street value estimated at $150 million. Mara Elephant Project was proud to witness such a historic event made possible by our partners Kenya Wildlife Service, Save the Elephants, CITES, Stop Ivory and the Government of Kenya.     “You really had a sense that everyone there was like-minded and there for the same reason; to acknowledge … Continue reading.
Matt Mays Courtney Fehsenfeld at War of Space UN Headquarters

War of Space

ESCAPE Foundation, Inc., and Mays Entertainment are proud to announce their collaborative movie, War of Space, won best Elephant Micro Movie at the International Elephant Film Festival on March 3, 2016. The International Elephant Film Festival was organized by the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to raise awareness of the various challenges facing the African and Asian elephants, as a highlight of… Continue reading.
African Elephant in the Mara Kenya

Welcome to MEP’s New Website

Welcome to the new and improved www.maraelephantproject.org. This website is a culmination of months of work to bring you the best representation of what Mara Elephant Project (MEP) is doing to fulfill our mission. This will become a great place to visit regularly for updates on MEP activities, new findings and current happenings around the Mara. We want this website to represent the challenges MEP faces on a daily basis so you can celebrate the wins with us but also see the great losses we … Continue reading.