When we value elephants differently, we can make elephant conservation more profitable than poaching.

 

We know you care deeply about the fate of endangered elephants, indigenous communities, and our natural world. All three are imperiled in the Congo Basin Rainforest, known as our planet’s “Second Green Lung.” If you are willing to help, we can give you a brand-new reason for optimism.  

 

The Crisis

The poaching of elephants in Africa has a ripple effect that reaches around the world and impacts you and me. When forest elephants are killed for their ivory, the old growth forests that they garden lose much of the biodiversity upon which human life depends, along with the forest’s full capacity to protect us from climate change. 

 

Sadly, these elephants carry a dollar value only when destined to be destroyed.  Their tusks can earn up to $40,000 on the black market. 

 

We humans now stand at a crossroads: Shall we continue along our present course and allow profiteers to damage our earth beyond repair?  Or will we help sustain a livable planet where wild creatures and local communities are valued?

 

The Solution

We at CAP have teamed up with the purpose-driven company Rebalance Earth. Our aim is to save a fast-disappearing species while simultaneously mitigating deforestation and climate change. Our model also helps to reduce poverty and social inequity for surrounding communities, creating a symbiotic relationship to reduce human-elephant conflict. 

 

This model is ground-breaking, scalable and promises to launch a global paradigm shift that values elephants that are alive over ones that are slaughtered for their tusks. According to the IMF, a forest elephant is worth $40,000 when killed for his/her ivory while a healthy elephant is worth $1.75 million while alive, based on the carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services that it performs within a forest during its lifetime

 

With this information, a new trustworthy, traceable, and transparent ecosystem services platform has been built—grounded in the most innovative technological, scientific, and economic advances— to offset unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions towards sustaining and regenerating both the elephants and their forest habitats. And it is not only carbon offsets, but the ecosystem services, such as increasing biodiversity, that these elephants provide us and our planet. With Rebalance Earth’s valuation system in place, we are already making green waves across the planet. 

 

The next step is for CAP to assist with the implementation of this precedent-setting project as soon as possible. 

 

For this reason, we are reaching out to you to help. Please join us on this bold frontier by contributing the first tax-exempt donations in the U.S. 

 

Once we have completed our proof of concept, we will extend this model to other keystone species, such as gorillas, jaguars and whales. We invite you to join us in this extraordinary opportunity to advance a lasting, replicable and scalable solution to our planetary crises. If you’d like more information, we can walk you through our project model.

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Let's Work Together

You can further support this timely and extraordinary effort to mitigate climate change, biodiversity loss and human poverty by clicking on the Donate button above and specifying the Rebalance Earth Partnership Project as your reason for donation.

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