The Dream Reborn

The Amboseli Trust for Elephants (ATE) aims to ensure the long-term conservation and welfare of Africa’s elephants in the context of human needs and pressures through scientific research, training, community outreach and public awareness.

ATE is a not-for-profit trust registered in Kenya and the USA as a (501(c)3). ATE's operational focus is in Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya and the surrounding ecosystem; its influence reaches out to elephant conservation, management and policy-setting worldwide.

AERP, the Amboseli Elephant Research Project is the trust's research arm. Since 1972, under the leadership of Dr. Cynthia Moss, a team of international and local Maasai researchers and conservationists has collaborated to study the Amboseli elephants, making it today one of the best-known populations of free living large mammals in the world.

AECT, the African Elephant Conservation Trust, is an endowment fund established in the USA. The long-term objective of AECT is to initiate, support and ensure the continuation of key elephant research projects across the African continent modeled on the ATE philosophy and research methodology. In time, income from the endowment can used to fully fund the work of ATE and AERP and enable the field researchers focus their energies on their project and relieve them of the burden of continued fund raising. AERP's unparalleled body of knowledge will thus be made available to those addressing issues such as land use, conservation education, protected area management, and the consequences of human population expansion.

ATE has an administrative, fund-raising and advocacy office in the United States, a program management office in Nairobi, and a field research office and camp in Amboseli National Park.