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Launch of the Elephants and Bees Research Center
I’m very happy to pass on the news that The Elephants and Bees Research Center in Sagalla is officially opened! We had a fantastic day on Thursday after lots of preparations such as goat buying, pilau making, agenda planning and blowing up...
Second survey of Tsavo’s elephants gives further confidence in their numbers
Earlier this month Elephants without Borders conducted an independent assessment of Kenya's most important elephant population, in Tsavo. The results back up the findings of the KWS census conducted in February, showing that the region is not in...
Save the Elephants flies the 2014 aerial census of Tsavo, home to a third of Kenya’s elephants.
Counting a third of Kenya’s elephants in one operation is no small challenge, especially in the vast, trackless expanse of Tsavo, Kenya’s largest protected area. The 48,000 square kilometres must be accurately covered in as short a time as...
Empowering The Future: Save The Elephants Scholarship Program
This year, Samburu County is celebrating with high leaps and chirps of joy: we have emerged as the top county in Kenya’s national exams! On the shoulders of her teachers and peers sits Monica Lesuyai. After four years of tireless work, Monica...
Scandal in Uganda as Court Hands Back Ivory
An ongoing courtroom drama in Uganda is threatening to undermine the nation’s international credibility after a judge ordered three tonnes of seized ivory to be returned to the smugglers who were caught with it. In October last year the...
Chinese megastar launches Say No to Ivory film on World Wildlife Day
Monday 3rd March was the inaugural World Wildlife Day, recently established by the UN General Assembly in order to celebrate our wild world and to urge us to step up the fight against wildlife crime in this precarious era. That morning at the...
First raid of the season
At around 8:00 on Friday, January 10, 2014, I sat down to the dinner table, starving and exhausted after a long day. As we dished out the servings of stir fry (a treat compared to our usual tomatoes, beans, and rice dish), Nzumu was helping Imran...
Precious Wabongo
Part of our many jobs as interns on the Elephants and Bees Project in Tsavo is to start laying the foundation for larger research questions about our beehive fences, such as, what makes bees happy? In other words, why are some hives or entire farms...
Nations unite in London to declare a new stand against the ivory trade
A quarter of a century ago economists, modellers, zoologists and trade experts gathered at the London Zoological Society and, in the face of overwhelming evidence from the forests and savannahs of Africa, the Ivory Trade Review Group pronounced...
Good News–US Domestic Ivory Ban Announced
Although international trade in ivory has been banned since 1989, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) does not have jurisdiction over domestic trade. Only national legislation can limit trading of ivory within...