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A growing like for elephants
Transforming the hearts and minds of young learners is at the center of our conservation lessons. For over five years, our mobile education programme has traversed the Northern landscape preaching the love for elephants and encouraging peaceful...
Of renewed hopes and dreams
We first met fifteen-year-old Agostinella Ninna in December 2016 while conducting our annual scholarship interviews in Samburu. Unlike most participants who lived a few minutes from the interview station, Agostinella had travelled 130 kilometers...
Elephant corridor meetings February 2017
Around 2 years ago, the idea of opening the northern part of the country as part of the government’s 2030 vision was becoming a reality (lappset). Construction of the high-speed railway, oil pipeline and dual carriage highway were underway....
The Poetic Reunion
A week after the death of Rozz William (from the Poetics) her two calves were separated from the family. Days later they were seen just a short distance from their family but hastily moving in the opposite direction. STE’s effort to try and divert...
T-shirts to help secure a future for elephants
The only fair way for an elephant to die is through natural causes, and for the last 23 years, Save the Elephants has committed to protect and create a sustainable future for the African elephant. Even in the face of human greed and...
Consensus and renewed commitments to combat the illegal wildlife trade
Governments around the world should act quickly and save vulnerable species before it is too late as those species are being killed at a horrifying rate. This was the dire warning delivered by Prince William of Britain when he addressed the...
Canines combating elephant poaching in the Gonarezhou ecosystem!
A canine unit has been established in Gonarezhou National Park as an additional tool to park management. With a sense of smell one thousand times stronger than humans the unit has been created as a rapid response to try and locate poachers before...
Shaba and her sister
In most animal species after the death of a parent it naturally becomes the responsibility of the older sibling(s) to take care and guard the younger ones. In elephants the bond between siblings and between calves and other members of the family is...
Buffalos return to the Springs
On our regular mammal census route through southern Buffalo Springs we came across a group of mammals that we did not expect – Buffalos. This may surprise many readers, of course there out to be buffalos in Buffalo Springs. However, the iconic...
Before the Rains
The arrival of Brunaleski and Alpine’s new calves on the 4th of November mark, respectively, the 4th and 5th new-borns to greet our Samburu research team in just over a month. This wave of newcomers to Samburu’s elephant families began with the...