Stories

National ivory stockpile destruction unique sends an important and clear message that a nation is not tolerant of wildlife crime that threatens to wipe out the African elephant.

Since 2006, Save the Elephants had been able to deploy a GSM collar on a well-known bull called Mountain Bull.

A mission to fit tracking collars to the last elephants in Virunga National Park, Congo in July 2015.

Chinese superstar Li Bing Bing on why we should save elephants.

After three weeks at camp I have experienced quite a bit of the long-term monitoring of the elephant populations and have spoken with a few people in camp about the challenges that they face. Often, when we go out to the field, we see Samburu people...

In late July Save the Elephants flew to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo to deploy tracking collars to protect the last of its elephants from poachers. In the 1980s the national park - Africa’s oldest - was estimated to...

Hong Kong has the largest number of ivory items on sale in the world. At 30,856 pieces, this market is also the closest to the world’s main ivory consumer: China. Every year, over 30 million Chinese tourists come to the island territory to shop...

What we lose when we lose our elders I have recently lost a very dear person to me while I have been away from home here at STE camp. Although I knew it was coming, I never imagined it would be while I was away - I suppose no one imagines such...

As I reflect on my first few days in camp, I am amazed at the amount of memorization undertaken by each of the individuals who work here throughout the year. Upon arrival, it was explained that I would be assisting with field work including...

I came to Save the Elephants (STE) as a national intern with a mind that all the elephants are the same; little did I know that all of them are given names under several families just as we human beings. How could this even be possible?? After...