{"id":3781,"date":"2024-02-21T06:47:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T06:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfs.local\/program\/elephants-of-the-african-savanna\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:38:35","slug":"elephants-of-the-african-savanna","status":"publish","type":"program","link":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/center\/kenya\/program\/elephants-of-the-african-savanna\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants of the African Savanna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The African elephant is a keystone species with a profound influence on the landscape and dynamic in which it coexists with other African wildlife.<\/strong>&nbsp;As the largest (and one of the most charismatic) animal walking our planet,\u202fits conservation continues to attract concern within and beyond Africa.\u202fJoin SFS Faculty and leading elephant scientists\u202fto learn\u202fabout these animals in the elephant conservation strongholds in and around Amboseli National Park. Hear the perspectives of local communities living at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, including their day-to-day interactions with the African elephant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Embark on multi-day camping expedition to Maasai Mara, where you\u2019ll hope to encounter the \u2018Big Five\u2019\u2013the African elephant, African buffalo, lion, leopard, and black rhino.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On a multi-day camping trip, explore Amboseli National Park \u2013 widely regarded as the best place in the world to observe free-ranging elephants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Examine the causes, manifestations, trends, and current state of human-elephant conflicts in the Amboseli Ecosystem and their implications on elephants\u2019 conservation and co-existence with local communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African elephant is a keystone\u202fspecies with a profound influence on the landscape and dynamic in which it coexists with other African wildlife. As the largest (and one of the most charismatic) animal walking our planet,\u202fits conservation continues to attract concern within and beyond Africa.\u202fJoin SFS Faculty and leading elephant scientists\u202fto learn\u202fabout these animals in the elephant conservation strongholds in and around Amboseli National Park. Hear the perspectives of local communities living at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, including their day-to-day interactions with the African elephant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5410,"template":"","location":[96],"class_list":["post-3781","program","type-program","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kenya"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/program"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstudies.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}