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Scaling coexistence across East Africa
A middle-aged woman stood beside sacks of freshly harvested maize, more than she could ever remember harvesting in recent years.
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Turning uncertainty into purpose
When Yvonne Seline Ekesa received her university admission letter to study Conservation Biology at Kenyatta University, her first reaction… confusion.
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 fine...
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...
Save the Elephants joins the 9-2 Anti Poaching Force
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...
NGOs gather to discuss the elephant crisis with Hillary Clinton
July 31, 2013 I 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...
Teaching an old dog new tricks
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...
Living in Harmony with 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...
Builders Club helps save elephants
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...
A week with the Samburu Producers
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...
Mapping Vegetation in the Midst of Leopards
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...
Mozambican “Elephant-Friendly Honey”
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...