Living In the Forest With Elephants (LIFE) - a sustainable tourism model LIFE is the foundation’s central project through which we successfully developed a community-based tourism model that is economically sustainable, socially just, and environment and elephant friendly! First started in 2018, LIFE was steadily progressing towards self-sustainablity in 2019 and was a central piece of the foundation’s winning a Booking Cares Fund impact proposal in 2019. Covid-19 was a monumental setback, that led many tourism-funded organizations around the world to shut down, but thanks to the careful planning of the foundation, and the resilience of the LIFE community, the project managed to survive through the pandemic and is now able to prioritize growth, development, and capacity building.