Living alongside wildlife should never come at the cost of a child’s safety, education, or access to healthcare. The Elephant Express provides safe transport for 150–200 schoolchildren daily, as well as healthcare workers travelling through active elephant corridors in northwest Botswana.
What began as a practical response to human-elephant conflict has become one of our signature coexistence initiatives, and the heart of our 10th anniversary film. In 2025, two of the three bus routes operated without a single elephant-child encounter, while improving school attendance and enabling healthcare outreach to remote communities.
During the first half of 2026 alone, the programme supported outreach clinics that reached 335 patients, including 30 expectant mothers who registered for antenatal care (previously inaccessible), helping ensure essential health services reach some of Botswana’s most isolated villages.
