Stories

Hamjambo! I am one of the interns of June 2013. I am British/American, born in Kenya, but have been calling Uganda home since 1996 and Tanzania before that. I completed an undergraduate degree from the University of Sussex, majoring in Ecology and...

It was 7pm on the 28th May, and around two dozen wardens of differing seniority had assembled at Oliphants Reserve in the ANPR west of Kruger National Park to witness the trial of conservation’s most-hyped new technology: drones. The moon was...

The elephants have become so used to the Save The Elephants vehicle that they feel barely any threat by it. They continue feeding/mating/playing as normal, and usually ignore the car completely. Sometimes they come up and explore; reaching trunks...

Samburu has the most beautiful skies I have every seen. The ever changing winds bring in clouds of impossible shape and size giving the horizon an ever changing beauty. weird shaped cloud Sometimes the clouds look so comical it is as though...

Spending so many hours out in the field means I have a lot of time to try to capture animals in interesting positions! This gerenuk had been reaching out for the juicy leaves for a good 5minutes before deciding a stretch was needed! Elephants...

I count myself very lucky to have been here for Li Bingbings visit. Hers and the visit by Xinhua have resulted in my own realizations. It is so easy to read an article about poaching and feel learned in the situation at hand, or to hear the name of...

Kenya’s new President, Uhuru Kenyatta has come out, guns blazing, pledging to “strike a decisive blow” against all those who threaten the environment. In his inaugural speech on the 9th of April, the President stated categorically, “My...

Save the Elephants has been unrelenting in its mission to reach out to the Chinese people in an effort to reduce the demand for ivory and stop the illegal killing of elephants. This week we hosted the film actress Li Bingbing, one of China's...

Don’t leave milk in a bottle, unrefrigerated, overnight. It may say ‘Long Life’ on the carton, but that becomes ‘Short Life’ once it has been opened. You will discover your inner-farmer once you wake up and find a form of yoghurt in...

After the success of Uffe on Tuesday we had high hopes for Leakey today. Leaving before 9am we headed west to see if he was still around. It seemed he may have already crossed to Buffalo Springs and so began formulating a plan to carry out the...