WWF launches Asian elephant alliance

Customs check an illegal cargo of ivory at a port of Vietnam. — Courtesy of ENV

DANANG (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) is launching the Asian Elephant Alliance (AEA) to secure a future in which loss and fragmentation of elephant habitats is reduced, people and elephants live side by side in a sustainable way, and wild elephant populations are stable.

The Alliance calls for partnership and collective action as it acknowledges that the challenges faced by the elephants in our region cannot be solved in isolation. Improved research, monitoring, protection and management are the key focused areas of AEA.