Eléphants – Association Des Eléphants et des Hommes

Nature classes “children and elephants”

In Africa as in Asia, majestic elephants are endangered. The cause: poaching, but also the disappearance of their habitat. They compete with humans for space and natural resources, and conflicts multiply. Their situation is very worrying, and very often they live in small populations that are increasingly isolated. Elephants are the guardians of a biodiversity that is essential to our humanity: safeguarding them means preserving their living environment, and thus protecting many other animal and plant species.

The French association “Des Éléphants et des Hommes” has developed nature class programs, so that schoolchildren discover their natural heritage, and the need to protect it. These schoolchildren thus become the first actors in the preservation of biodiversity.

In addition, various local awareness-raising actions are developed: interventions in several hundred schools, distribution of educational materials, etc.

After conducting nature classes for more than 10 years in Africa (in Burkina Faso in particular), since 2019 the association has focused on Asian elephants, and more particularly in Laos.

The La Barben animal park and the Ecofaune association have been partners of this association since 2007, supporting nature classes in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and now Laos, through the actions of the Elephant Conservation Center.