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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
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Straddling Uganda’s northeast, South Sudan’s southern, and Kenya’s northwest borders, the Kidepo landscape is a mosaic of community rangelands, farmlands, and protected areas including the Kidepo Valley National Park
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...
STE’s PhD researcher Shifra Goldenburg has been conducting much of her research on the behaviour of orphaned elephants and their interactions with other members of their family. To add more depth and detail to her study, a few orphans were chosen...
