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In August, we received an exciting ‘text message’ from Arden, a tracked female from one of Samburu National Reserve’s most renowned elephant families, the Royals. The ‘text’ was sent from her GSP tracking collar directly to our researchers...
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Over the past few months, our conservation education teams have been actively engaged in a series of impactful field activities.
While there is no sign that the killing of elephants across Africa is slowing, political momentum to end the ivory poaching crisis has been mounting steadily over recent months. That individuals, scientists, NGOs and governments themselves are...
There was a lot of excitement amongst the interns this week when we heard that a rock band was coming to stay in camp! Or at least half a rock band. And it didn't even matter that we hadn't heard of this particular band before; we have now all...
In mid-September Yao Ming came back to Kenya to finish up the filming of his upcoming documentaries on elephants and rhinos. The 7’6” (2.28m) tall Chinese superstar launched his Ivory & Rhino Horn campaign in China earlier in the year,...
This year Save the Elephants is celebrating twenty dramatic years working with elephants. Through floods, droughts, airplane crashes and encounters with angry bulls and armed bandits, we’re proud that of the results that our team has...
As my time in Samburu nears an end, I would like to thank Save the Elephants for providing such an incredible experience. This past month has been filled with adventure, friends, and of course, elephants. The memories I have made here and the people...
The market for ivory is destroying one of the world’s greatest natural treasures, the elephant. That the largest animal still to walk the earth could disappear within our lifetime is bad enough. Worse yet, the profits of the illegal trade in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
