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Uniting Africa: The new Continental Tracking Initiative
For more than three decades, Save the Elephants has pioneered innovation in using tracking technology to understand and protect elephants.
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Elephants Hit the Big Screen in the US
The U.S. tour of A Life Among Elephants began with a premiere at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) in Washington, DC, where the film made its U.S.
Mountain Bull
Since 2006, Save the Elephants had been able to deploy a GSM collar on a well-known bull called Mountain Bull.
Stop Demand
Chinese superstar Li Bing Bing on why we should save elephants.
Tracking Virunga’s Elephants
A mission to fit tracking collars to the last elephants in Virunga National Park, Congo in July 2015.
Human-Wildlife Conflict: Seeking sustainable solutions for conservation
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...
Collaring the Elephants of Congo’s Virunga National Park
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...
Closing the Hong Kong “Loophole”
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...
On the Loss of a Matriarch
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...
An Elephant Never Forgets
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...
Superb experience at STE!
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...
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...