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Ruvuma Corridor Elephant Conservation Project – located in southern Tanzania. The ERM Foundation will be working with the conservation NGO, PAMS - working with local villages/communities in the corridor area to protect free roaming elephants (as the flagship species in the area) that are being heavily poached.  This includes supporting community driven anti-poaching controls (currently 200 anti-poachers employed), helping the community realise the value of conservation through eco-tourism and related activities, and controlling animal-community conflict (i.e. crops invasion, etc). This corridor area covers about 1,000,000 ha and links the Niassa National Park in Northern Mozambique and the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. If the corridor can be appropriately managed, this would make it the largest protected area in Africa covering nearly 11,000,000 ha (larger than the United Kingdom). Protected Areas Management Support (PAMs) have been working in the area for over three years, are making excellent progress, and have established relationships in place with the various villages and local community leaders.  However, they are severely under-resourced and the poaching problem is still a major problem in the area (e.g. 41 poached / dead elephants counted in recent fly-over by PAMs).  Two specific projects were identified: (i) development of a GIS mapping and monitoring tool to support the on-going management of the area, and (ii) capacity building for local village communities living in the corridor area associated with realising economic benefit from controlled hunting and eco-tourism