The Mara Elephant Project (MEP) was established in 2011 with the mission of protecting elephants and their habitats across the Greater Mara Ecosystem (GME). The GME is one of the last major wildlife refuges on Earth and is most famous for its annual migration of nearly two million wildebeest and zebras. In 2012, poaching emerged as the number one threat to elephants when 96 elephants were killed for their ivory, but now, the expansion of the human footprint resulting in increased conflict and habitat loss is an accelerating crisis. MEP focuses on four aims to connect the dots in conservation: elephant population protection, elephant habitat protection, human-elephant coexistence, and landscape connectivity. Our approach is to Monitor, Evaluate, and Protect, the ‘MEP Method’, through the deployment of innovative techniques and technologies to monitor the four dots, evaluate conservation data, and produce actionable outputs to influence policy, landscape planning, and the deployment of resources. Over the last decade, MEP’s approach has had a significant impact in ensuring that the population of 1,447,220 people across the GME coexist peacefully with wildlife. Mara Elephant Project Trust in Kenya is overseen by dedicated Trustees, employs 110 people and operates an annual budget of $3.2M.