The proposed project focuses on the collection and sharing of elephant identification and monitoring data, with the aim of improving the understanding of elephants in the target area. This information will be incorporated into long-term Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) and conservancy elephant monitoring programmes. Information collected will include an intensive survey of local knowledge as well as previous scientific research on elephants in the focus area. Gaps identified through this process will be further investigated. These include, conservancy elephant monitoring and problem animal 2 reporting systems, elephant numbers, their residence time, movements, population age structure and social behaviour will be investigated.