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Elephants Hit the Big Screen in the US
The U.S. tour of A Life Among Elephants began with a premiere at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) in Washington, DC, where the film made its U.S.
Tuskless and beautiful!
Have you heard the famous quote by Thomas Schmidt, “No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant?” Here’s why! Elephant tusks are enormous front teeth that keep growing throughout an elephant’s life. Apart from lifting...
Education as a tool to inspire
Former STE intern, Meha Kumar, joined our education team during their conservation education lessons across schools in northern Kenya. Here she shares her experiences. There’s an African proverb that goes “If you educate a man, you educate an...
Gone but not forgotten – a tribute to Wide Satao
Image: Great tusker, Wide Satao (centre), with other bulls in Tsavo East National Park © Christine Mwende / Tsavo Trust Last December, Kenya lost an iconic great tusker called Wide Satao. Wide Satao died of natural causes that were most likely...
Rare elephant twins found alive and well in northern Kenya!
Samburu, Kenya. A pair of rare newborn elephant twins have survived a drought and beaten the odds thanks to the excellent skills of their mother, a wild African female elephant called Bora. The miracle twins were first discovered in Samburu...
Sagalla Farmers Beekeeping Training
There was a time in Sagalla, Kenya when the rainy season could be predicted. Farmers counted on that regularity and planted their crops of maize, green grams, cowpeas, and watermelon according to the cycles of moisture. Now, nobody knows when the...
Nature’s Changing Technology In Sagalla Village
Sagalla Village has long been a region of small farmers, growing maize and green grams with no fertilizers, synthetic pesticides or under any irrigation, on tiny plots with a jembe, or hoe. Now, anthropogenic climate change, made worse by...
Art in Conservation
Why would culture be involved in such clearly nature-based initiatives? Why should we be concerned about literature, cinema, visual art, music and theatre when discussing how to save habitats and species? What does it help elephant conservation...
Friday’s are for Farm Club!
The school week ends with farm club and this week the activity was mixing soil with students from Class Seven and Eight! The Farm Club was set up in 2016 by Joanna Stutchbury, who was a renowned Kenyan conservationist. It began to thrive in...
Elephant-themed gifts for you
This holiday season, give a gift that helps save elephants. Each year, Save the Elephants celebrates our mission-aligned corporate partners by sharing a specially curated conscious gift guide. As you head into the holiday gifting season,...
How cutting-edge AI is helping to protect wildlife
At Save the Elephants’ (STE) research camp in northern Kenya, scientists are gaining insight into the lives of wild elephants by tracking them day and night using novel real-time technology. STE WildTracks (formerly known as the STE Tracking...