Stories

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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.

It is almost a week since I arrived at the Save The Elephants research camp located in the Samburu National Reserve as an intern. With almost daily outings for elephant long term monitoring and mammal censuses in the field, time has passed by so...

With the wet season in full swing with recurrent thunderstorms passing through the Samburu area in the late afternoon, the short virgin grass of just a few weeks ago has matured into long stems. Elephants have come to Samburu in large numbers,...

Long-term monitoring projects like the one Dr. George Wittemyer started here at Save the Elephants are quite simply invaluable. If science is a search for truth, then scientists ought to strive for a representative picture. Overarching patterns are...

It is now mid-April, and aside from the previous dry weekend, the rain has finally maintained a steady presence. The rain has come primarily in the form of storms, but the landscape has also been blessed by several periods of continuous rain...