Elephant Human Relations Aid (EHRA)

Elephant Human Relations Aid is a Namibian registered NGO, which runs an elephant conservation and volunteer project. EHRA aims to find long-term sustainable solutions to the ever-growing problem of facilitating the peaceful co-habitation between the subsistence farmers, community members and the desert adapted elephants.

With the escalation of tourism as an increasing potential earner of revenue for these communities, the value of elephants and other wildlife in communal areas has increased dramatically. EHRA believes that through assisting these communities by constructing protective structures around water points (with the help of the volunteer project members) educating community members about elephant behaviour, creating alternative drinking points for the elephants and promoting tourism in the affected areas, we can assist in alleviating the current pressure facing communal farmers. Thereby helping to promote the future of the desert dwelling elephant in harmony with the continuous positive development of the conservancies and their ideals.

Our guests can help by doing volunteer work with the EHRA, helping them build watering places with secured walls around them, or alternatively a group can spent two nights in the Damaraland, tracking the Elephants in the river bed and assisting with a protective wall around windmills of the local community.