Spotlight on our very own Mamatha, Nazar, and Heidi Riddle: AES has long provided opportunities for mahouts to gain more hands on knowledge about elephant husbandry. We have supported FOKMAS in Sumatra for many years and we were able to fund travel for two Indian mahouts from forest camps in Karnataka, India, to the FOKMAS workshop to share information. The forest camps in Karnataka also use elephants in human care to mitigate human-elephant conflict; exactly like their Sumatran counterparts in the CRUs and ERUs. The following article explains how the two country’s mahouts were able to find common ground and lift one another up with education.