Jumbo donation is a real life-saver

A sizeable donation from Animal Friends Pet Insurance is helping to ensure a safer future for endangered Asian elephants and the people sharing their landscape in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

“This hugely generous donation from Animal Friends will help us continue important and ground-breaking work in an area that has historically seen both human and elephant fatalities,” says Elephant Family’s Head of Conservation, Belinda Stewart-Cox, OBE. “Elephants are large, migratory animals and, as wild landscapes are converted to plantations and small holdings, it’s impossible to confine them to ever decreasing spaces. Naturally, as they seek food and water, elephants stray into cultivated areas and surprise encounters with people can lead to conflict.”

The donation will help support a highly effective early warning system that uses SMS text messaging, light signals and optical fences to alert local communities to the presence of elephants, allowing them to take evasive action especially at the peak commuting times when elephants are most active too!

Watch a snippet from Joanna Lumley’s India where she visits the project