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Award-winning elephant conservation documentary premiers in the UK on Channel 4
This is the first time the remarkable story of legendary elephant scientist Iain Douglas-Hamilton has been documented in a feature film.
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This is the first time the remarkable story of legendary elephant scientist Iain Douglas-Hamilton has been documented in a feature film.
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Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Dr Jake Wall have been awarded the Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society Prize for 2025
Save the Elephants welcomes the official recognition that elephants in Africa are of two distinct species: the forest elephant, and the savannah elephant. The decision by the African Elephant Specialist Group is based on the genetic differences...
Nairobi, Kenya: African elephants, Loxodonta Africana, play a cat-and-mouse game with farmers, often raiding their crops. The raids are risky—farmers are known to retaliate against the elephants—and according to a study by researchers working...
Image: Ivory stockpile in Kenya © Kristian Schmidt Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya-based research and conservation organisation, Save the Elephants (STE), has today, August 11, 2020, added its voice to a worldwide campaign urging the Tokyo Metropolitan...
There has been a recent round of large-scale mortalities in Botswana’s Okavango Panhandle, with at least 281 elephants dying from unexplained causes. The first carcasses were found in May and the mysteriousness of this tragedy, combined with...
CONTACT: San Diego Zoo GlobalPublic Relations 619-685-3291 WEBSITE: SanDiegoZooGlobal.org NEWS RELEASE Researchers Study Elephants’ Unique Interactions with Their Dead Findings Reveal Broad Interest in Deceased, Even in...
"In both life and death, big bulls like Tim and Matt not only fire our imaginations, but they are also stark reminders that the last giants on Earth are quickly disappearing and we must do all we can to protect their future...
October 24 2019. One of North Kenya’s largest tuskers - a celebrated African savanna elephant called Matt, has sadly died. Matt, aged 52, and one of Kenya’s well known elephant elders, died apparently from natural causes. During his lifetime...
FINAL Tuesday, June 25: Males of many species slow down in their pursuit of females as they age. Not so with elephants. A new study published today reveals that bull elephants increase the energy they put into reproduction as they get...
JUNE 12 2019. Elephants move faster and straighter when moving through risky areas, researchers have discovered, meandering more when safer. The study by Save the Elephants, the University of Twente and the University of Oxford, further builds...
Botswana - whose progressive policy on protecting elephants has led to their elephant population becoming the largest in Africa - has now announced that they intend to open sport hunting. While we consider hunting elephants to be morally...