Stories

Camp Visitors and Nyama Choma (Roasted Meat)

The past week has been great with many people visiting camp. Iain came for a weekend and it was nice to spend time talking to him. We had a nice meal with him, Oria, and Gemma. For the past two days we had journalist Jeffrey Gettleman and...

Some lucky sightings

The past week has been busy with a lot of time out in the field and working through cleaning the Long Term Monitoring database. I have been accompanying Shifra when she drives out into the reserve to find elephant families. I am now able to help her...

Farewell to Kenya

So I'm writing this from a much colder and greyer England! Just one more entry to sum up the end of my trip working alongside the lovely team at the office in Nairobi.I left Samburu with mixed feelings. An extreme sense of happiness that I'd been...

Saving Migrating Elephants – The Mara Elephant Project

The Maasai Mara, an extension of the vast Serengeti ecosystem, is one of Kenya’s most important wild­life areas and a tourism asset. The Maasai people own the land with elephants occurring throughout the reserve and adjoining community...

Visiting Samburu for the first time!

I finally got the chance to visit STE research camp in Samburu and I must say I picked the perfect time to visit. I spent 3days there a couple of weeks back and it was absolutely beautiful and breathtaking. The weather was amazing, due to the rains...

Francesca Sanders Exhibition

5th - 10th December, 2011 At the Air Gallery, Mayfair, London The Francesca Sanders December 2011 Exhibition in Mayfair, London showcases Francesca's work developed through parternships with East African conservation groups over the last two years....

The story of Wendy

Who is Wendy you ask? In the vast land of Samburu in Kenya, under the covers of acacia trees live so many families of elephants. Each elephant has been identified and named using very unique and distinct characteristics such as the patterning of the...

What a busy week in Samburu!

Its still harsh in Samburu, very hot and dry indeed, no signs of rains soon. It was very amazing to find people enjoying bathing with the camp’s hard and salty water like twice or thrice a day. The week started with day to day monitoring of...

Interning at Save the Elephants – Nasrin Suleiman

Heyya Everyone!!My name is Nasrin Suleiman and I’m privileged to be interning at STE. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental management from Monash University in Malaysia some time back. My aim is to gain enough experience from...