Featured
Scaling coexistence across East Africa
A middle-aged woman stood beside sacks of freshly harvested maize, more than she could ever remember harvesting in recent years.
Stories
Featured
Turning uncertainty into purpose
When Yvonne Seline Ekesa received her university admission letter to study Conservation Biology at Kenyatta University, her first reaction… confusion.
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...
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...