Stories

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...

My name is Corin Gallagher, and I am 19. I was born in Hong-Kong but brought up in South-West London. I will in October begin an English Literature degree at the University of Bristol, having taken this year as a gap year. Along with conservation, I...

I am watching an elephant, amused by the way it twirls its trunk around the grass to feed, humoured by the way a calf is chasing impala, amazed at a friendly touching of trunks as one greets a newcomer, and curious about what I am also missing in...

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...