Mount Elgon Foundation
Preserving Mount Elgon’s Natural and Cultural Heritage
A REMOTE GEM IN THE HEART OF AFRICA
Mount Elgon is a massive free-standing extinct volcano on the Kenya-Uganda border in East Africa, a vast untamed wilderness sitting in secluded splendour.
We aim to fund projects that preserve Mount Elgon’s rich natural and cultural heritage that also support the people of Mount Elgon.
n
Banner: looking from Laboot, Kenya to Elgon’s peak in Uganda. Above: top left – team members walking in the Forest Reserve, Kenay; top right – rock art, Kakapel, Kenya; bottom left – adolescent elephant in a cave lifting salt to its mouth; bottom right – Sipi Falls, Uganda. (Credits: Christopher Powles and MEEP.)
.Learn More
Chemukung: the Elephant, the Snare and the log
“Mt Elgon’s ”cave” elephants have small tusks and, with much of the mountain covered in forest, ivory poaching is rare. However, one young elephant faced an unusual challenge.”
Swara Magazine (the Voice of Conservation in East Africa), July – Sept 2020
Cave Elephants and the Search for our Early Human Ancestors on Mt Elgon
“….there is an extensive network of caves mined by elephants in a remote area on the Kenya side of Mt Elgon that is almost entirely unknown to the outside world….”
SWARA Magazine (the Voice of Conservation in East Africa), Oct – Dec 2019
.
New Archaeological Excavations at Mt. Elgon Caves, Western Kenya
Researchers from National Museums of Kenya describe archaeological work on Mt. Elgon that deepens our understanding of factors influencing settlement patterns through climatic shifts.
Kenya Past and Present, Issue 46, 2019
.
New perspectives on rock art from Mt. Elgon, Trans-Nzoia and Kara-Pokot
“….the north rift corridor is rich in rock art and other archaeological sites, some of which still await discovery and study.”
The Future of Africa’s Past – Proceedings of TARA Conference, November 2004
To read our latest news please click here.