Stories

Taking the Initiative For Elephants

A new dawn for elephants broke on 26th September, when Hillary and Chelsea Clinton brokered an $80m partnership to bring an end to the ivory poaching crisis. Save the Elephants has been advocating for a global coalition for united, international...

The day our tears mingled with blood

 Saturday 21st September 2013 started just like any other Saturday for me, with my daughter and nephew jumping onto my bed shouting “mummy Njoki usiende job” (mummy Njoki please do not go to work today…!) and I mumbling with one eye open...

Celebrating Elephant Appreciation Day!

In the midst of peril we pause today to appreciate the beauty and wonder of the elephants that survive and still roam African soil, to salute the great tuskers which may number less than 100 across the continent To the Matriachs who have defended...

Painting the World Elephant

There I stood, amongst the jaw-dropping works of first time art exhibitor, Nicola Heath. This 19 year-old grew up in Laikipia, has passion, creativity and talent like little else we had ever seen. Her focus during her summer break was painting...

Tanzania gearing up for a crucial elephant count in the Selous

Over the last several years horror stories have been mounting about the scale of the slaughter of elephants in Tanzania. The Selous National Reserve is home to one of the most important elephant populations in Africa. Until recently it was the...

Co-Existing with Elephants in Sri Lanka

Human-wildlife conflict has over the years presented huge challenges for conservation agendas around the world. During a recent trip to Sri Lanka, Save the Elephants’ Human-Elephant Conflict team leader, Dr. Lucy King had a chance to interact...

A March of a different kind

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” As the world remembers Martin Luther King, Jr, this month one man is walking right, and is taking America by storm,...

Matt gives us a scare

Matt is one of the Big Boys of the North. Not only does he sport some of the biggest tusks we’ve seen in the wild landscapes of the north of Kenya, he also ranges further than any other elephant we track. He moves all the way from the Matthews...

The Bells of Justice

 The battle for elephants has been raging on many fronts this year. In Kenya, our red line was crossed by the death of Changilla, a Samburu-born bull with a fighting spirit. It got worse as we watched a Chinese national walking away with a $350...

Time to Reflect

It is crunch time for the scholars of STE’s education programme. At the end of the final term about to begin they will sit their national secondary school examinations, competing for a chance to qualify for rare University slots. For now they...