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2025 Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society Prize Winners Announced
Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Dr Jake Wall have been awarded the Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society Prize for 2025
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How Elephants Plan Their Journeys: New Study Reveals Energy-Saving Strategies
A new study has revealed African Elephants to have an extraordinary ability to meet their colossal food requirements as efficiently as possible.
Environment Ministers add their voice to global efforts to combat illegal wildlife trade
CITES PRESS RELEASE CITES welcomes the world’s environment ministers adding their voice to the concerted global efforts underway to combat illegal wildlife trade at the first UN Environment Assembly to be held in Nairobi this week. Over the...
Boost for Kenya Wildlife Service in their defence of Tsavo’s Great Tuskers
PRESS RELEASE Kenya’s last remaining Great Tuskers received a boost as Save the Elephants presented the Kenya Wildlife Service with a new Toyota Landcruiser vehicle modified and equipped as an anti poaching vehicle dedicated to their...
Technology solutions for wildlife conservation: How GPS and cell phones are helping to monitor and protect African elephants
© Save the Elephants The viral spread of smartphones has jumped a species. African elephants are now also benefitting, thanks to new software algorithms developed by...
Third Hong Kong Retailer Drops Ivory
WILDAID, SAVE THE ELEPHANTS, AWF Press Release HONG KONG, May 13, 2014 - Hong Kong’s Yue Hwa Chinese Products Emporium Ltd announced that it is no longer selling ivory products according to a memo obtained by WildAid. The statement follows...
China destroys ivory stockpile in ‘significant symbolic step towards saving Africa’s elephants’
At the ceremony in Guangzhou on the 6th of January, officials from the State Forestry Administration will make the strongest demonstration yet that China intends to end her role in the destruction of Africa's elephants. In December 2013 the US Government - which presides over the world's second-biggest ivory market - also destroyed its entire ivory stockpile.
Kenya: State to Foster Human-Wildlife Habitation
Since 1995 Save the Elephants has been at the forefront of developing live tracking technology to monitor and interpret elephant movements. The technology is constantly being updated and improved. Bulky radio-tracking collars are being replaced by...
Cold War Radioactivity Helps Fight Trade in Illegal Elephant Ivory
PHOTO CREDIT: © SEAN DUNDAS Press Release A new method for dating elephant tusks has been established that is expected to make it easier to enforce the current worldwide...
One of Africa’s best-studied elephant populations reveals the disturbing impacts of poaching
PHOTO CREDIT: © STE Press Release The devastating impacts of a recent surge in ivory poaching have been chronicled in detail by new research on one of Africa’s...
Thinking Big: The Secret of Survival among Mali’s Desert Elephants
PHOTO CREDIT: © CHYULU SMITH Press Release Satellite tracking of elephants living near Timbuktu has revealed the secret of their survival in the savage conditions of...
The Race for Ivory is on
PHOTO CREDIT: © BECKY WALTER PRESS RELEASE July 12th 2011 Elephant expert Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton and his team sound the alarm on highest elephant poaching in...