East Africa’s last super-tuskers are not just rare elephants. They are the final guardians of an extraordinary genetic inheritance — the ancient big-tusk bloodline that once defined Africa’s greatest elephants.
Their enormous tusks, each weighing more than 100 pounds (45 kilograms), are not just magnificent. They are living proof of a genetic legacy that is disappearing before our eyes.
Fewer than 30 super-tuskers remain in East Africa. Only around 90 are left in all of Africa. Today, your donation toward safe-guarding these rare animals will be DOUBLED.
The super-tuskers of East Africa are the last of an ancient bloodline — magnificent, irreplaceable, and vanishing. Fewer than 30 remain in East Africa, and every single one matters. Source: Harry Collins Photography
Today, your donation toward a life-saving anti-poaching drone will be MATCHED, doubling your impact for these precious creatures.
From June to October, during the dry season, the super-tuskers migrate between Kenya and Tanzania in search of food and water. As they cross vast, unfenced corridors, they are dangerously exposed to poachers and trophy hunters.
Their magnificent tusks make them priceless to the natural world — and a prize to those who would kill them.
We are helping protect these extraordinarily important animals and, thanks to our supporters, last year bought two drones which now monitor dangerous areas. But there are still unmonitored regions.
Your donation will provide double the possibility of more protective drones for elephants.
Hunted, killed and stripped of the very tusks that define them — only to be turned into trophies, edging one of nature’s most extraordinary bloodlines closer to extinction. Source: Africa geographic
Each one costs around $13,000 — roughly £9,600.
A dedicated ASI donor has pledged to MATCH every donation, dollar-for-dollar and pound-for-pound, up to $18,000 (£13,400) towards high-tech anti-poaching drones for our partner, Conservation Through Tourism (CTT).
Our partner works across Kenya and Tanzania’s critical wildlife corridors, which super-tuskers cross in search of water, food, and safety. These corridors are vast, remote, and often unprotected — exactly where these elephants are most vulnerable.
Using drones, the team can monitor elephants, guide them toward safe water and food sources, and help steer them away from human settlements, hunting zones, and areas where poachers may be waiting in ambush.
This “guarding from the sky” helps prevent deadly encounters before they happen. It reduces the risk of elephants being poached, shot by trophy hunters, or killed after entering human areas in desperate search of food and water.
The team protects elephants in three key wildlife corridors, but we are now tackling an area that remains largely unprotected.
Super-tuskers must cross largely unprotected corridors to survive. For these elephants, more drones could mean the difference between life and death. Source: CTT
To cover this vulnerable corridor, two more drones are urgently needed.
These elephants cannot be replaced.
Once a super-tusker is killed, the world doesn’t only lose a member of an endangered species — it loses part of the genetic future of Africa’s elephants.
If this gene is lost, it may never return, or could take centuries to do so.
Please donate today. Your gift will be matched, your impact will be doubled, and you will help protect the last elephants capable of passing this rare inheritance on.
We are perilously close to a world where super-tuskers exist only in memory.
Please help keep them alive.
