• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
Mount Elgon Foundation

Mount Elgon Foundation

Preserving Mount Elgon’s natural and cultural heritage

  • Mount Elgon
    • The Elephants
    • Mount Elgon’s Caves
    • The Forest and Other Flora
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Tourism
    • Present Day Mount Elgon
  • What We Do
    • Mount Elgon Elephant Project
    • Cultural Heritage Research
    • Community and Forestry Projects
  • About Us
    • Our Team
    • Key Partners
  • News
  • Donations
    • Australian Donors
    • Canada Donors
    • Kenya Donors
    • U.K. Donors
    • U.S. Donors
    • Other Donors
  • Publications
  • Contact

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.

DONATE
SIGN UP

We aim to fund projects that preserve Mount Elgon’s rich natural and cultural heritage that also support the people of Mount Elgon.  

n

Our Team
Cultural Heritage Research
Mount Elgon Elephant Project
Mount Elgon

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

Download the article


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

Download the article

.

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

DOWNLOAD THE ARTICLE

.

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

DOWNLOAD THE ARTICLE


To read our latest news please click here.

Explore more

Donate Sign up

Footer

Copyright Mount Elgon Foundation© 2022 · U.K. Registered Charity No. 1186668 · All Rights Reserved

  • Home
  • Mount Elgon
  • What We Do
  • About Us
  • News
  • Publications
  • Donations
  • Contact