Stories

Many people do not consider work as fun, but I do! Travelling for the first time to Samburu on 12th July 2012 with four of my other stuff members from Save the Elephants, I thought of what the Samburu ‘Camp’ was like. Seated behind Siana who was...

I started interning for Save The Elephants about six months ago at its Langata office in Nairobi. In all this time I only knew of what happened in the field through reports and accounts that passed through my desk, but about a month ago Vella (STE...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...