Stories

Learning about Elephant Conservation in Kenya First Hand!

How often do you get to rub shoulders with the big names in conservation? For a student in conservation studies or a conservation enthusiast, other than seeing their videos on YouTube or on the news, that chance is usually once in a blue...

Creating Tomorrow’s Conservationists

On a chilly Friday morning in November, at 8am, students from six universities began to trickle in. You could see the anticipation on their faces as they collected their Save the Elephants notebooks and sat down for the first ever symposium on...

Even elephants see the vet…

Given the social nature of female elephant herds, it is odd to see an adult female alone, especially without her calves nearby. When we first saw Alpine on her own during a weekly mammal census, we assumed from a distance that she was a lone bull....

Rain, rain, DON’T go away…

Back at home in Massachusetts, the sight of rain falling outside my window often elicits a groan of disappointment. The rain will dictate whether I will drive versus bike, wear rain boots instead of flats, take a hike or stay in to watch a movie,...

Ivory Crush US Resolve

Iain Douglas-Hamiton and Jane Goodall speak about the ongoing elephant poaching crisis and the symbolic importance of the US ivory crush, taking place on November 14th 2013

Using bees to solve Human-Elephant Conflict

Kenya has not only had to deal with the poaching that threatens her elephants and wildlife. She has also had to grapple with conflict between humans and wildlife, a problem that will only increase as the nation develops.

Li Bingbing on the impacts of buying ivory

China's leading actress and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Li Bingbing shines a spotlight on Africa's war on the poachers that are devastating Africa's elephants. The war is financed by those buying ivory. As Bingbing says, when the buying stops, the killing ca

What I(Yao Ming) Found

On his visit to Africa, Yao Ming came face to face with the devastating state of poaching.