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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.
Our Save the Great Tuskers project has gained new foundations with the completion of an aircraft hangar in Tsavo to protect the anti-poaching aircraft from the ravages of African sun & rain.Pilot & Chief Conservation Officer Richard Moller has been...
Education continues to be one of the most under-funded sectors in Samburu, and unquestionably one of the most sought after services. For many parents in this region, providing quality education for their children is such an uphill task, that the...
The snow and biting cold in Arnhem, Holland, may have been distinctly un-African, but the stars of the annual Future for Nature awards ceremony certainly made up for it.Lucy King, Human-Elephant Conflict Programme Manager for Save the Elephants, was...
On the evening of Monday 18th February over 150 guests gathered at the High Commissioner’s private residence for the event, called “Ivory & Insecurity”. The harmonies of Kenya’s famous Moipei Quartet welcomed the crowd of diplomats, senior...
The UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Conference of Parties is fast approaching. This is the stage on which the decision to ban trade in ivory was taken in 1989, and where the ban was weakened with one-off stockpile...
Our new Save the Great Tuskers campaign takes off!Elephants are the largest beast to walk the Earth today. Among them, the Great Tuskers are king. With their towering presence and vast tusks they appear to belong to another era. Without action they...
The news for the land of Turkana is a mixture. Quite fortunately, last year’s clashes with the neighboring Borana tribe have subsided, and the families that were displaced during the troubles have returned to their homes. Although making a living...
After crossing the Ewaso Ngiro River into Samburu country, one of the first elephants we saw was a bull named Philo. He was very recently named, as he was new to the area. It was a good omen, I thought at the time. But this encounter was to be the...
We hadn’t known Philo for very long. He had been using the reserve for the last year, but was absent from the area for long periods. He was probably in the stage of his life as a young male where he was solidifying his dispersal, exploring new...
My name is Elleni Stephanou and I have lived in Kenya my entire life! I thought I had seen it all, from annual game drives, to volunteering at chimpanzee sanctuaries and turtle rehab centre’s, but in August of 2012 I realised how wrong I had...
