Stories

Rewarding Bravery

When Christopher Mark Lesamana, approached his teacher that June afternoon in 2013, he felt timid and afraid. He knew it was the right thing to do, but wasn’t quite sure how the authorities would take it. He had been tending his father’s cattle...

China’s Ivory Market Slowing, Perhaps Decreasing

Demand for ivory in China may have either remained stable or even decreased slightly in 2014 and the first half of 2015, new data suggests. Ivory (illegally) offered for sale online in China fetched similar prices in 2014 as it had the previous...

China Takes an Elephant Stride

Friends of Elephants, You will have heard of China's astonishing vow to end the ivory trade within their borders. This, accompanied by yet another ivory crush in Beijing demonstrates their will to set about ending the ivory trade. It is the...

The death of Sioux

Through the hard work of Save the Elephants and our partners in Northern Kenya, particularly the Kenya Wildlife Service, Northern Rangelands Trust and Lewa Conservancy, we have seen a remarkable change from the poaching disaster that unfolded from...

Ivory Ella

We’ve long appreciated the power of social media to open the world’s eyes to what is happening to elephants. When an elephant called Changila was killed by poachers in early 2013 it felt like a dam had broken and millions of people were moved...

Balancing elephant needs and infrastructural development

Conserving land and ecosystem connectivity for wildlife is increasingly becoming a global challenge as the pace of infrastructure development increases in many traditional wildlife areas. The survival of wildlife species in arid and semi-arid...

STE Visitor’s Center Opens its doors

On 3rd May 2015, against a backdrop of beautiful sounds from the Samburu morans, Chelsea Clinton officially opened our visitor’s Centre at the Save the Elephants research camp in Samburu, Kenya. It had taken the team months of designing and...

Going digital – Boma mapping using Google Earth

Can  you imagine being  several miles away from your home, but still be able to view it from that far away?? The answer is definitely YES!! Thanks to GOOGLE EARTH. Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It...

Conservation Generations

Save the Elephants Education Program has, in the past, largely focused on primary schools in and around Samburu County, Kenya. To give our education and awareness program some wings and cover more ground, we have teamed up with Samburu University...

Tsavo Aerial Defence

Tsavo harbors around 12,000 elephants and over 10% of Africa’s great tuskers. In the past, massive poaching, droughts and human encroachment hit this haven for elephants hard.