Our projects are funded by grants and consultancy fees. Funding comes from the  Government of India and State Governments, bilateral and multi lateral aid agencies and international conservation groups. We also receive donations from individuals from India and overseas who support our work.

ANCF believes that students form an important constituency for conservation. The first goal of students should be to educate themselves thoroughly in the challenges and opportunities that face conservation. This comes both from in class acquisition of conservation knowledge on the one hand and participation in the work of  school based nature clubs and guided visits to sanctuaries and national parks, on the other. Students could highlight the plight of the Asian Elephant in India through various public forums and communication channels. Students and schools could put pressure on governments and other private organizations to work more strongly to conserve and protect the Asian Elephant. Students could volunteer with programmes of the Forest Department for planned projects like the conduct of a wildlife census. All these actions by student communities will support the work of the ANCF. Our organization is an information bank on conservation issues and will support schools and students who require science based knowledge on such issues.

Technology is playing a growing role in the programmes to conserve elephants in the wild. For over a decade ANCF has been actively using radio/satellite telemetry technology to study Asian Elephants in northern West Bengal. A total of 13 elephants have been collared so far. These collared elephants provide us information that helps to  map their distribution, understand their movement patterns and develop ‘elephant corridors’.  ANCF has worked on the development of an early warning system using satellite collars to track the movement pattern of notorious (elephant) crop-raiders. The communication system is expected to  alert both the forest department and villagers to take preventive measures. The satellite data received on a daily basis is mapped and the movement pattern sent to the forest officials for action. This will to some extent help mitigate the problem of human elephant conflict in some regions.