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In August, we received an exciting ‘text message’ from Arden, a tracked female from one of Samburu National Reserve’s most renowned elephant families, the Royals. The ‘text’ was sent from her GSP tracking collar directly to our researchers...
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Over the past few months, our conservation education teams have been actively engaged in a series of impactful field activities.
Hey! My name is Nina and I’m one of the international interns at STE Samburu camp. Having grown up in neighbouring Tanzania where I was raised on high doses of sunshine, tropical beaches and frequent, if dusty, safaris, I thought I was prepared...
Poaching has been a major problem in Save the Elephants’ area of operation, Samburu County. Their weaponry skills and knowledge of the area have made locals the ideal persons hired to do the dirty work, causing the anti-poaching team sleepless...
The month of August in the education calendar is holiday time for all our students. However, our scholarship students were hosted at camp for a week and involved an integrated approach to their study sessions using Khan Academy, one on one subject...
Over the past weekend, STE and NRT team put collars on two elephants in Sera. The aim of this collaring operation was to contribute to a wider plan concerning land use management in Northern Kenya in relation to the existing conservancies. In...
Save The Elephants Research camp is the place to be. It is filled with diverse people with diverse knowledge - a factory of knowledge in fact! What you want is just what you will get!! I have been in the camp for five weeks and I have seen...
As Africa’s elephants face perhaps the biggest challenge in their history, an intrepid rowing crew is taking on one of the world's toughest oceans to support them. Thirty-seven attempts have been made to row from Australia to Africa across the...
With the growing success of our Elephants and Bees Project in Africa, (see www.elephantsandbees.com), there has been increasing interest from elephant projects in Asia to see if we can export our beehive fence idea to help Asian farmers from Asian...
Outcry in Kenya is rising as a crime boss alleged to be a major force behind Kenya’s ivory trade remains a free man despite a warrant for his arrest being issued six weeks ago. Citizens are demanding to know why low-level poachers and...
As the ongoing poaching crisis has developed we identified a need for ranger patrols within Samburu and adjacent areas to be more mobile. The last vehicle that was donated had come to the end of its useful field life, and a new Toyota Land...
Save the Elephants is working with community conservancies and schools to help the children who live in the elephant rangelands. This is the future generation that will inherit all the economic, social and environmental challenges that we humans...
