Stories

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...

As part of my Masters of Environment, I chose to do a 37.5 point Environmental Research Topic and somehow managed to score myself the wonderful opportunity of basing my research in Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves, northern Kenya. I...

I’m finishing my last blog from the backpackers in Nairobi, and it’s hard to believe that just this morning I was waking up in my tent to Stumpy the mischievous no-tailed money and the chattering mongoose, and now I’m back in the big city....

IntroductionPreviously STE together with its other partners like NRT, had deployed three GPS collars to elephants at Sera in order to monitor their movements. Back in 1998, a long tracked animal Ngolia was among the first animals going through that...

Recently, we carried the story of the death of Resilience the matriarch of the Virtues family. The saga of this family continues.Two weeks after Resilience's death David Daballen and I took at National Geographic camera crew to Resilience's body. We...

It is a mystery how elephants in the Chyulu Hills are connected to the great populations of Amboseli and Tsavo. Yet at a time when human populations increase, putting wildlife under pressure, it becomes ever more important to know the connection of...

About 3 weeks before I arrived at STE a famous matriarch of The Virtues, named Resilience, was shot and killed along with some of her family members. This included a younger female named Enthusiasm who was shot multiple times and died within walking...

Hello all! What an honor to introduce myself on The Save the Elephants Website My name is Lauren Ross and I’m accomplishing a lifelong dream by interning with this world renowned organization in one of the most beautiful places on earth. I’ve...

12 gun shots tore through the night near Isiolo town in Northern Kenya last week, signaling the death of the elephant ‘Hope’, a sub-group matriarch from a family of elephants know as the ‘Virtues’.Sadly, Hope had been observed just minutes...

We’ve been using camera traps in Westgate since February 2010 to capture images of the rare and elusive predators that roam Westgate at night. Over the past year, we have gathered quite a large collection of superb images of lion, leopard, spotted...