Stories

A Historic Moment in the Battle For Elephants

The joint announcement made on 26th September that the world’s two great nations, China and America, have agreed to end the ivory trade within their borders is a significant moment in the battle to save elephants. Together China and the US hold...

Justice for Wildlife

The Global March for elephants and Rhinos, Nairobi Chapter was EPIC! We had rangers, students, corporates, bikers, cyclists, roller bladers, vuvuzelas, Kenyan flags, placards and banners reading “Save the Elephants” “Secure their Future” and...

The Wired Wilderness – Google StreetView in Samburu

Google Earth has been working with Save the Elephants for the last ten years now. Our working relationship has been productive in many ways. In the last few years, with the support of the county government, there have been negotiations between...

Mourning a Fallen Warrior

We can’t forget the day Koyaso stood up in front of the crowd, confessing he had been a poacher for 17 years, and that he was done. 17 years. In that time, he had trained several men to follow in his footsteps, and now, he was calling them all out...

Settling in

As I arrive in camp there is already great sense of co-operation among the members of different conservancies within the Samburu National Reserve updating each other on the whereabouts of different elephants. Within a few minutes I was learning...

No Sudden Movements

I was distracted by the call of blue-naped mousebird, so distracted that I had forgotten that our vehicle was surrounded on all sides by a large herd of elephants. As I glanced off to my left to spot the source of the bird call, a stiff gust of wind...

Anantara gets artistic to support Asian elephant conservation

Anantara is aiming to raise funds and awareness for Asia’s elephants by partnering with a major new public art exhibition in Bangkok. The luxury hotel, resort and spa brand, which forms part of the Minor International, has teamed up with Elephant...

Geo-Fencing

Kimani was the first elephant to be collared and tested under the Geofencing. He became the focus of the Ol Pejeta management due to his considerable skill in breaking expensive fences.

STE and Google Earth

Conservation has inextricable links with information technology, and innovative solutions to conservation problems now abound.

The Desert Elephants of Mali

Satellite tracking of elephants living near Timbuktu has revealed the secret of their survival in the savage conditions of Mali’s desert.