Stories

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...

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 fine...