Stories

I woke up in my Nairobi hotel room to the sounds of cars honking and lorry engines roaring in the street below. It was early, the sun had just risen, but the city had begun to stir long before. I found that I felt well rested and excited, which was...

Accelerometers detect motion by sensing g-forces, and when placed on animals can be used to measure body orientation, overall activity levels and specific behaviors of elephants

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.

On the 9th of April 2013, Uhuru Kenyatta became Kenya’s first president to take on poaching in his inaugural address.

Even in one of the world’s best-known national parks, elephants are in peril.

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

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

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

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...