We Invite You to Watch Our Video from TEDx International
Stephen Gianotti, founder of The Woodland Group, shares his story about “What We Can Learn From The African Elephant.” [TEDx Talks; 12 May 23]
Allow yourself to be taken on a 16-minute journey to Africa and open yourself up to the 1.5 million years of wisdom from the African Elephant. We believe that these lessons are highly relevant to our collective future.
Thank you so much for watching and sharing the video.
You can find more Elephant stories and inspiring stories on our BLOG.
Pro Bono Work
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
-Winston Churchill
Giving back is core to who we are. What we do.
At The Woodland Group, we dedicate a considerable amount of our time and resources to non-profit pro-bono work. We work with churches, the Arts communities, community organizations, and more. John F. Kennedy once said in a speech, “For those to whom much is given much is required.” This ideal is one of TWG’s core values.
The Woodland Group partners around the world to create the clarity, vision, and needed systems and infrastructures to lessen and sometimes eliminate the gap between “where we are & where we need to be” as individual leaders, a group of value creators, or as an entire company or organization.
Each collaborative colleague at The Woodland Group has helped thousands of people find their path through their respective “giving back.” Below are just a few of the organizations with whom we have partnered over the 20 + years since TWG began. Click on any of their logos to learn more.
Several collaborative colleagues have found great joy in supporting Elephant Havens Wildlife Foundation, located in Botswana, Africa. Their mission is: Protecting and Preserving the African Elephant.
Strong and nurturing, the African elephant is smart, extremely loyal, relationally connected and survival focused, determined, and protective. The Woodland Group honors these same principles in all of the work that it does.
Pro-Bono Clients
The Woodland Group is a proud sponsor of the Elephant Havens Wildlife Foundation in Botswana, Africa.
Elephant Havens’ mission is to protect and preserve the African elephant.
Through habitat protection, community outreach, and the rescue and hand-rearing of young elephant orphans, Elephant Havens aims to become a leading voice in wildlife conservation awareness and wildlife protection. We envision a world in which African elephants and local communities co-exist without conflict, and where young elephant orphans are saved and reintroduced into the wild.
By educating local communities on elephant behavior and habitat protection, we hope to instill an understanding of the benefits of conservation. At the same time, we are working with farmers to discover specific areas of conflict with local elephants. Finding and implementing creative solutions to keep elephants from trampling crops and devastating livestock will go a long way towards reducing the human-elephant conflict.
Using funds from generous donors, we built the Elephant Havens orphanage on the edge of the Okavango Delta. This sanctuary for abandoned and orphaned elephants is a safe place for them to be cared for until they can be reintroduced into the wild. We encourage both foreign visitors and local community members to visit and learn more about these remarkable animals. With access and education, we hope to bridge some of the gap between communities and wildlife.
We are also creating educational activities and experiences aimed at helping people of all ages to understand and appreciate wildlife and wild lands, encouraging people to take action to conserve it now and for future generations.
Elephant Havens Wildlife Foundation was formed in 2017 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation based in the United States.