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Scaling coexistence across East Africa
A middle-aged woman stood beside sacks of freshly harvested maize, more than she could ever remember harvesting in recent years.
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Turning uncertainty into purpose
When Yvonne Seline Ekesa received her university admission letter to study Conservation Biology at Kenyatta University, her first reaction… confusion.
Painting Ngare Mara Primary School
This was sadly my last week interning for STE but it’s been a good one! This past weekend I was able to experience the community side of STE when a group of students from the UK came to paint a school with our education program. We had a full camp...
Two weeks at Save the Elephants
My name is Celia O’Brien. I’m from Washington, DC, and I’m going into my senior year in high school. This June was my third time visiting Samburu. The first time I came on safari with my family, the second I spent lots of my time interning at...
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...
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...
UNEP/CMS Thesis Award Goes to STE Researcher, DR. LUCY KING on Elephants and Bees Project
On the 18th June 2011 Lucy King, our Chief Operations Officer, was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in Zoology from the University of Oxford. Lucy’s thesis “The interaction between the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the African honey...
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...