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Turning uncertainty into purpose
When Yvonne Seline Ekesa received her university admission letter to study Conservation Biology at Kenyatta University, her first reaction… confusion.
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Lost, Found, and Welcomed With Open Trunks: Orphaned Calf Reunited with Herd in Samburu
On the morning of February 11, 2026, our team at Save the Elephants received an urgent call from Elephant Bedroom Camp (EBC) in Samburu National Reserve.
Building Corridors for Conservation
Throughout the last year conservation organisations have been discussing the LAPSSET (Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor) railway line and oil pipeline construction. This construction concerns us all because...
Maasai Mara Ecosystem Connectivity
Kenya’s Vision 2030 identifies securing of wildlife dispersal areas and migratory routes and pathways as significant ingredients of sustainable eco-tourism. Likewise, it is Save the Elephant’s (STE’s) conviction that the protection...
Steering a bright future for a child in Samburu
It is yet another bright year for us here at Save the Elephants Grassroots Education Program, and in this month of February, we have enrolled eleven students in our scholarship program. The students, who comprise six girls and five boys, have joined...
To be so trusted
It didn’t take long to fall in love with Samburu’s elephants. In the two short weeks that I have been at STE as an international intern, these incredible creatures have already stolen my heart. This wasn’t my first encounter with...
Tracking Marsabit Elephants
Prior to the 2007 deployment of radio collars in Marsabit, STE believed that the elephant population there was completely isolated, despite unconfirmed, local information that there was connectivity between the Marsabit and Samburu...
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,...
Defending Elephants with GPS tracking using Google Earth
This short video shows hows how Save the Elephants uses Google Earth software to track elephant movements in Kenya and across Africa.