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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.
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...
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...
“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 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 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...
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...
The area to the west of Isiolo has been plagued by some of the worst poaching to be seen in Kenya. STE recently joined a new mobile security force created by the Northern Rangelands Trust and the Kenya Wildlife Service to patrol the...
July 31, 2013I had only just returned to Kenya from a long round of meetings in the US in June, when I received an invitation that made me turn straight back around. Secretary Hillary Clinton was interested in holding a dialogue with the leadership...
All was still as we sat down at the meeting, poachers on one side, KWS on the other and Save the Elephants right in the middle. You could cut the tension with a knife.This was planned to be the first of many meetings initiated of Save the Elephants...
I hit the ground running this month by getting our core schools in Samburu involved in the nationwide campaign titled ‘HANDS OFF OUR ELEPHANTS.’ My aim was to get the kids writing letters to the President of Kenya to protest the ongoing elephant...
