Stories

I arrived in Samburu on 28th September, 2011 at around 9.30 pm. I was very tired after a long journey from Nairobi. The following day, I was familiarizing with the environment at the research camp. It was cool with birds singing everywhere, the most...

Hello Everyone!I am Fraizer, very lucky and grateful to be considered for internship with Save The Elephants for the month of September 2011. I am a graduate with Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Management from Moi University, Kenya. I reported at...

I am settling into the rhythm of camp life. It is easy to wake with the sun in morning. Gone is my alarm clock. Gone also are mirrors, extra clothes, appointments, classes, and a whole lot of stress. How refreshing! Chai or breakfast in the morning...

These are just a few of the elephant families to whom I have had the pleasure of being introduced during my first days in Samburu. I arrived on July 24 to begin a three and a half week internship with Save the Elephants. I am entering my senior year...

With most of the Team in Voi for the Ivory Burn we thought that we were going to have a few very quiet days. Camp was pretty empty with only the interns and Jerenimo present. It turned out to be adventure packed.Our work on mammal censuses continued...

In the last week we have been working as part of the Education Team visiting schools in the Samburu area. We visited five schools in five days in a whirlwind tour. The main part of our trip was to show Standard 8 students the second part of The...

On Thursday we took a game drive in the afternoon around the Samburu Reserve with David our Camp Manager as part of the routine Long Term Monitoring Programme. Every elephant that we come across had to be identified as an individual, member of a...

Hi everyone!We are Amy Bennett and Millicent Wanjiku and are both lucky enough to be interning with Save the Elephants for the month of July. Amy is from Liverpool, England and studies Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and Millicent is from...

Hi everyone! My name is Ian Hustwick and I have had the privilege of being an intern at Save the Elephants for the last six weeks. Time has gone really fast and I can’t believe that I have only three weeks left here in Samburu. I am here...

At noon on April 28 we were alerted by the STE Automated Poaching Alert system that one of our Mt.Kenya female elephants, Prunella, had triggered a level ‘5’ alert; the highest alert possible and meaning that her collar had not moved more than...