Project Elephant is a government conservation programme in India.
India launched the programme in 1992 through the Ministry of Environment and Forests, now the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. It was created to support the long-term survival of wild Asian elephants and their habitats.
The programme provides financial and technical assistance to states with free-ranging elephant populations. Its work includes protecting elephant habitat and migration corridors, reducing human-elephant conflict, preventing poaching, supporting research and providing veterinary care for captive elephants.
Project Elephant is sometimes confused with Project Tiger, another Indian conservation initiative. The two programmes are separate, although both use protected areas and landscape-scale conservation. Project Elephant also supports the creation and management of elephant reserves across India.