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Orphaned Elephants Return to the Wild
After seven years of careful preparation, a remarkable moment has unfolded in northern Kenya.
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A Lifeline for Angola’s Forest Elephants
Record-breaking ECF grant will help protect one of Africa's most threatened elephant populations.
Tracking Elephants Across Northern Kenya
Our new Northern Kenya Elephant Tracking project is now live, following a successful initial deployment of the first set of tracking collars last week. Over the coming three years we will use 40 new collars to understand – and protect – the...
Four-Legged Soldiers in Fight Against Wildlife Poaching
Man’s best friend is playing an increasing role in the struggle to save wildlife in Africa. The unprecedented surge in both poaching and trafficking of wildlife is prompting government authorities, non-government groups and private land...
Collaborative Conservation in Mozambique’s Vast Niassa Reserve
Niassa National Reserve in Northern Mozambique is a vast area of wilderness that holds one of the five most important elephant populations in Africa, but is under grave threat from elephant poaching, logging and unmanaged human use. Managing...
Defending Some of the Planet’s Last Great Tuskers
Of all the world’s elephants, the few remaining Great Tuskers are those that are most endangered. The price of ivory in China has tripled in the last four years alone, but that’s not all. Ivory is no longer simply a material from which to create...
Cattle Rustling: The age-old tradition of death
Cattle rustling is a long time cultural practice by the pastoral communities found in North East and North West of Kenya. Warriors usually go raid the neighboring communities and return with hundreds of cattle. This show of bravery would earn them...
The Sydney World Parks Congress
“The future is, after all, in the hands of the youth,” said Nelson Mandela of the future of conservation in his speech at the IUCN World Parks Congress (WPC) in 2003. Just over a decade later, at the sixth IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 in...
Anwar the bull
The elephants of Samburu are unusually tame and trusting… Anwar, a young bull, takes his affection to new levels…
Arusha summit on combating illegal wildlife trade and promoting conservation
The regional summit to stop wildlife crime and advance wildlife conservation was held in Arusha, Tanzania between 6th and 8th November 2014. Under the patronage of the Minister for natural resources and tourism, Hon. Lazaro Nyalandu, the summit was...
Frank Pope speaks at the San Francisco Elephant March 2014
On October 4th, Save the Elephants had teams walking in Nairobi, Vancouver and San Francisco during the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos.
Bye-Bye Babies – leaving Samburu in a baby boom
Finally, after over a year in Samburu, the time has come for me to head home. I am trying my best not to feel too heartbroken about leaving my friends and of course my elephants to return to the cold wet winter of the UK. And although I am not...