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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.
Sadness in Samburu – a Series of Elephant Deaths Both Natural and Otherwise
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...
Elephants need US! President Obama Must Stay Strong on Ivory
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...
You should know elephants…
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...
Experiencing Samburu for the First Time
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...
Bringing basketball to Samburu
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’...
Death of Amayeta, one of the orphans
Yesterday morning (April 17), we got word that Amayeta, one of our collared elephants, had remained in the same location for many hours. When something like this happens, it’s usually due to two reasons: either the collar fell off or the elephant...
From Mountain Lions to African Elephants
Hello everyone! My name is Yiwei and I am the newest intern for Save the Elephants in Samburu. I hail from California, where I recently completed my PhD work on mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains (santacruzpumas.org). My research focused...
Yale Beckons STE Intern
We are so thrilled to announce that our long term Elephants and Bees intern, Robert Mwehe, has secured a fantastic scholarship to do a Masters degree at Yale University in the USA! He will be joining the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental...
The fall of Koitalel the Chief
We had begun to think that fearless killing within the reserve boundaries was behind us. Although we had one death in December of last year, it has been nothing compared to the slaughter that occured two years ago; the storm appeared to be...
Jerenimo in the Snow
In mid March I returned to the States for the second leg of my Emerging Wildlife Leaders Training, this time to be held in Jacksonville, Florida. To add a twist to my trip, Dr. George Wittemyer had invited me to visit with him and his students...