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In August, we received an exciting ‘text message’ from Arden, a tracked female from one of Samburu National Reserve’s most renowned elephant families, the Royals. The ‘text’ was sent from her GSP tracking collar directly to our researchers...
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Over the past few months, our conservation education teams have been actively engaged in a series of impactful field activities.
Save the Elephants has been busy restructuring and building our team to better handle the scale and significance of the current elephant crisis. Now more than ever we need to be able to respond fast to the diverse challenges that elephants are...
It is funny to learn the differing perceptions of people and cultures; something very apparent in a camp atmosphere where we - a mix of culture, ethnicity and background - spend everyday with each other. Here are two examples;Every morning I am used...
It was our great pleasure to host a delegation from Xinhua, China’s state news agency and the world’s largest media outlet, on a visit to Samburu last weekend. The eminent director of Xinhua’s Africa operation, Mr Wang Chaowen, was...
I know my last blog was dark and depressing; so I would like to offer some hopeShe is 20 years old and has two healthy calves whose female calf, incidentally, is also tuskless. She is living a good life so far, with absolutely no visible hardships...
Following Chinese sports star Yao Ming’s tour of Africa last year I was invited to Beijing for the official launch of his Ivory & Rhino Horn Campaign. This major push to raise public awareness about the impacts of buying Ivory and Rhino horn has...
Take a moment and imagine a giant bull. One who towers over tourist vans and casts shadows on the rest of the herds. A male so dominating, one stamp of his foot and the other males would retreat. A male who had first pick of every female when in...
3:43AM Sunday morning and I awake from a very strange dream. As custom, I reach for my phone to write down some keywords that will trigger a memory of the dream once I wake so that I can write it down. This is not odd for me. What is odd is that I...
When it comes to discussions about the current elephant poaching crisis, China is often a word that looms large. Demand for ivory in the world’s most populous nation has driven the price to record levels, making elephant tusks a sought-after...
Since 1998, Save the Elephants' analysis of data from GPS collared elephants has shown that elephants spend significant amounts of time outside of protected areas. Many elephants use parks and reserves less than 50% of the time they have been...
Ever since Save the Elephants began tracking elephants we’ve known that they’re very aware where they are safe. Although Kenya’s National Parks and Reserves are not fenced, you can see by their movements that they don’t want to move outside...
