Stories

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...

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...

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...

With demand for ivory surging in the Far East, more and more people are being caught trying to smuggle ivory out of Kenya. Police, the Kenya Wildlife Service, port and customs officials are working hard to stop the criminals in their tracks before...

Jerenimo Lepirei is the STE name on everyone’s lips. Hailing from sleepy Archers post in Samburu, Jerenimo is determined to charge through as leader in conservation. After four years proving himself as a dynamic and resourceful research...

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...

Heritage was a bull who was collared as part of Save the Elephants’ collaboration with the Mara Elephant Project. His movements were helping reveal for the first time how the Maasai Mara’s bull elephants use their environment. This information...

Cirrocumulus was an exceptional elephant. Almost 2.5 meters at the shoulder and wearing long and full tusks, she looked older than 23. She was the only breeding female left from a small family called the Clouds 2. Cirrocumulus had one calf, a...