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On the morning of February 11, 2026, our team at Save the Elephants received an urgent call from Elephant Bedroom Camp (EBC) in Samburu National Reserve.
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The recent BBVA Foundation Worldwide Award presented to Save the Elephants (STE) and the Elephant Crisis Fund (ECF) will supercharge our work across Africa - strengthening partner networks, increasing linkages between our partners, and driving lasting cha
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...
So this is my first blog as a new intern at Save the Elephants research camp in Samburu! My name’s Rebecca and last year I graduated with a degree in Zoology from the University of Sheffield. During my studies I had a keen interest in animal...
To save elephants we need to stop killing, stop trading and ultimately stop demand for ivory. No single individual, organisation or even government can do this on its own. That’s why Save the Elephants has been advocating a global coalition on the...
Last Saturday Jim Nyamu, director of the Elephant Neighbours Centre and a comrade in arms at the Kenya Elephant Forum finished walking 1500km to raise awareness about the plight of elephants. On his 50-day journey from Nairobi to the Maasai...
Ni Hao! My name is GAO Yufang. I am a Chinese graduate student from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Currently I am doing fieldwork in Kenya for my master’s research project which looks into the highly contentious...
I was on my first trip to the Save The Elephants research camp in Samburu when we got the bad news about Bonsai. I’d only recently started as STE’s new Conservation Education Officer. Until travelling to Samburu I had been busy getting to...
We tried to reconstruct the scene of the killing, following the small trail of splattered blood-the only clues that remained from the latest poaching of a known female in the protected areas where we work. It was difficult work, as the clues after...
