EarthRanger

"When great engineers meet field experts, big ideas can be born."

That's how Frank Pope, CEO of Save the Elephants, opens the forward to our 10-Year Impact Report. It captures how EarthRanger came to be.

In the early 2010s, as elephant poaching surged across Africa, the late Paul G. Allen and his team at Vulcan Inc. set out to give frontline teams a clearer picture of what was happening on the ground. Working alongside and building off the organization's Real-Time Monitoring System, that collaboration became EarthRanger.

Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who founded Save the Elephants in 1993, transformed how conservation understands wildlife by revealing elephants as individuals, not anonymous parts of a landscape. His passing in 2025 was a profound loss, and his legacy continues to shape how conservation teams use data to protect wildlife and people.

Iain's mission lives in the work. A look at Save the Elephants' impact in just 2025 alone.

Read our 10-Year Impact Report at the link in bio.

📷: Save the Elephants, Ted Schmitt, Jane Wynyard

The Caribbean coast of Honduras is home to some of the region’s most important marine wildlife sites.

Protecting them depends on the people who know them best. With funding from , fishermen and community leaders across those sites took part in a hands-on workshop, building local capacity for real-time monitoring and coordinated field response.

Wild elephants and farming communities have shared this landscape for generations. The tension between them is not new. This , we're thinking about the communities on the front lines of that conflict — and the work being done alongside them.

At Kuiburi National Park, , Ecoexist Society, and are working with farming communities to get ahead of nightly crop raids. 64 AI-enabled camera traps along the park boundary detect elephants moving toward farmland and transmit alerts to 25 community rangers within minutes. Since November 2025, teams have logged 724 elephant detections and identified 25 individual animals — building a spatial picture of movement patterns that is starting to shift response from reactive to predictive.

A night without crop loss is a victory. The goal of this work is to make those nights more frequent.