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Orphaned Elephants Return to the Wild
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A Lifeline for Angola’s Forest Elephants
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STE’s Lucy King wins prestigious conservation award
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,...
Ivory & Insecurity, an evening for elephants at the British High Commissioner’s Residence, Nairobi
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,...
CITES field diary
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...
Save The Great Tuskers
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...
State of Turkana – Jo Soltis
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...
Philo the Young Bull
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...
Philo
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...
Waiting for April!
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...
Mating Pandemonium – Shermin de Silva
Male elephants continue to grow throughout their lives, getting bulkier and broader. Older males enjoy a greater competitive advantage and higher reproductive success. Many have a characteristic time of year when they are seeking mates, and as they...
Where have all the big boys gone? – Shermin de Silva
“It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf...