The ECP Project

Project goal
To support the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) to conserve elephants in Southern Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda.

Project Purpose
To provide UWA with management research information on the ecology of Ishasha’s elephants and the present and potential threats to their future.
These provided the backbone to set up the mechanisms for combining ECP activities with UWA management and allow for the establishment of research efforts, Protected Area and field levels.

The results of the project were:

• Elephant population size, structure, group dynamics and reproductive status understood.


• Elephant seasonal distribution, movement and resource requirements better understood.


• Habitat and resource change, in particular resulting from elephant and human impacts monitored and understood.


• Location and activities for actual or potential elephant - human interaction or resource competition identified and mapped.


• Community trends, resource requirements and attitudes to QENP better understood.


• Additional expertise harnessed through co-operation and collaboration with other organisations and facilitation of research opportunities.

• Promote and assist in capacity building and training exercises to ensure the continuance and expansion of ECP monitoring techniques and skills.