Stories

The Elephant Crisis Fund, a joint initiative created by Save the Elephants and Wildlife Conservation Network, is thrilled to announce a $1 million grant from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. The grant will be used to save elephants from the...

The Samburu research camp is not the regular kind of research ground you come across. With respect to efficiency and competence, the area carefully blends the four fundamental Rs of Research, Recreation, Restoration...

Last month, faithful Save the Elephants (STE) followers might remember that a large tusker named Matt gave us quite the scare when he lost his collar in Northern Kenya. Well, when I say, “lost his collar”, what I really mean is that he...

Part of STE’s mission is to promote man’s delight in the intelligence of elephants and the diversity of their world. To that end we are proud to announce the launch of our new website, a platform designed to help us share this awareness more...

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Founder and CEO of Save the Elephants, will be in London on Wednesday 28 May to give a fascinating insight into the ivory poaching crisis and the grounds for his optimism about the future. The joint Tusk / STE event will be...

To see an elephant lying on his side in pain is a disconcerting sight. I had become so used to watching these giants wrestle in the mud or eat their way through camp that it was hard reconcile my previous experiences with elephants with the...

On April 29th a group of the world’s most prominent scientists, celebrities, companies and conservation organizations posted an open letter to President Obama in the Washington Post and The Express. The letter thanks the President for his...

Today I tagged along Jerenimo; Research & Community Outreach Officer, Desmond; Education Officer and four students under the STE scholarship program. We did not count our ungulate friends because it was an ‘elephants-only’ monitoring day also...

My name is Nancy Odweyo, I am a conservation biology student at Kenyatta University. I recently got the rare opportunity to intern with Save The Elephants. When I first heard they were going to post me to their research camp in Samburu, I was...

When Yao Ming visited the Kiltermany village outside of Samburu National Reserve in during his trip to Kenya in 2012, he broke their basketball hoop. To be fair, that hoop was probably not designed to withstand the dunking power of a 7’...