Amboseli Elephant Research Project

The Amboseli Elephant Research Project is a project of the nonprofit organization Amboseli Trust for Elephants. It is the most detailed and most long-term research project on the African elephant. The aim of the research project is the study of social behavior, age structure and population dynamics of African elephants.

The research project was initiated in 1972 by Cynthia Moss and Harvey Croze in the region lying to the south of Kenya Amboseli National Park. The Amboseli Park is characterized by the fact that only little poachers were active in the approximately 390 -acre site. This is especially the people of the Maasai, thanks to the owners of the surrounding country, and the constant presence of tourists and researchers. Thus, Amboseli is one of the few regions in Africa, in which the age structure of elephants has remained undistorted. In the area that is monitored by game wardens and scientists throughout the year.

Between September 2007 and May 2008, a 13-part documentary about the elephants in Amboseli National Park and the work of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants was filmed by Animal Planet.