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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.
Students from Unity Middle School, Florida, through their community service club, The Builders Club, have raised an incredible $600 for Save the Elephants! This was inspired by "The Ivory Crisis" presentation which Singer Rankin, one of STE's most...
Viraj and I arrived at the camp on Wednesday night at 9pm on one month and two weeks internships respectively. We are assisting Bernard collect data on the various plants in the reserve in the hope of developing a GIS map of all the vegetation in...
My main project over the next couple of weeks will be to assist Bernard, the STE GIS expert, in making a vegetation map of the Samburu and Buffalo Springs Game Reserves. Excitingly, this has never been done before to this precision and once...
We are delighted to report that the first ever 7.5kgs of delicious Mozambican “Elephant-Friendly Honey” has been produced by our trial Beehive Fence farmers living in Niassa National Reserve in northern Mozambique! The farmers’ activities are...
Hi, I’m Viraj, the new STE intern! I am currently on a gap year having deferred my entry to Brown University, USA, where I hope to major in Environmental Science. I have had a phenomenal gap year with a number of unique experiences, but nothing...
The one piece of advice my dad gave me before I left for Kenya was “don’t go swimming”. As if I was planning on doing that… But life in camp is unpredictable… When the river flooded in 2011 the water ripped away the recently repaired...
Naming an elephant is no easy business. Each one has a specific ID number, telling you their ancestry and their year of birth, but it is their individual names that are particularly memorable and occasionally amusing. The Spice Girls and Spices...
My first day with ‘Save the Elephants’ was spent finding my way around camp and meeting the team. I soon found a point of agreement with many of the guys in that Cristiano Ronaldo was overrated and English football is better off without him!...
I mentioned in my first blog that we had an elephant visitor during my first night on camp. Since then I have met many more of our resident animals and often you don’t even have to leave the tent to be treated to a miniature safari. Last night...
I’m Gabriella, one of the new interns at the STE research camp in Samburu. I’ve just finished my second year at university, studying natural sciences and I’m looking forward to spending the next two months here in the African...
