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When the well is dry…
“When the well is dry, we will know the worth of water” - Benjamin Franklin It is October and a few of the migrant and sporadic elephant families are returning to the reserve. They time their seasonal migrations to coincide with the...
The Spices’ new bundle of joy!
When you are out on Long Term Monitoring (LTM) you expect to see a lot of interesting things from vultures feeding on a dead Grant’s gazelle, giraffes necking or male elephants fighting. However seeing a new life is one of the...
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD MAKE GREAT STRIDES AHEAD FOR ELEPHANTS – CITES COP17
Best CITES since 1989?The Conference of the Parties for the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES CoP17) ended in a colourful display of waving flags on the night of Tuesday 4th October.As seasoned...
Trading to Save Elephants
On the 14th of October 2016, the Nairobi Securities Exchange held its second annual Charity Trading Day, with Save The Elephants as the lead charity organization to benefit! Renowned Kenyan media celebrities were present to make calls to...
Hope for the African Elephant in 2016: CITES CoP16
The Conference of the Parties for the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES CoP17) began in earnest in a colourful and highly participatory opening ceremony on Saturday 24th September. To the beat of...
Hope for the African Elephant in 2016: CITES CoP17
The Conference of the Parties for the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES CoP17) began in earnest in a colourful and highly participatory opening ceremony on Saturday 24th September. To the beat of...
Samburu community march to mark the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos
The sun was hot and unforgiving when we started the 17 kilometre walk for elephants in Samburu, Northern Kenya. Primary and secondary school pupils had turned up, their energy and zeal energising the adults who’d shown up in large numbers for...
Wildlife and Climate Change
There is a strong link between global warming and the distribution and survival of animal and plant species. Droughts and floods have the ability of wiping out entire populations of animals and spreading alien species to various areas and...
Of Mothers and Their Calves
This is Willow and her daughter, she is the newest addition to the Hardwoods family. She is always by her mother’s side. Whenever she is stuck in mud in the many swamps in Samburu andBuffalo springs national reserves, Willow is always there to...
Elephants as keystone species:
Elephants are the real Kings of the African Savanna. Yes, they have no natural predator but that is not what makes them King.Elephants shape the landscape by uprooting and felling trees. Without this the African savanna would be a forest or worse, a...