Stories

Hey, it’s Kylie here – starting off the year as a new intern for STE. I have a background in Ecology and Sustainability, and am currently doing my Masters of Environmental Studies with Melbourne University in Australia. I’ve been lucky enough...

Arriving in Samburu after a few days in Nairobi feels like I’ve landed on another planet. A beautiful, peaceful and completely natural planet. I wake up in the mornings to the sounds of hornbills and sights of vervet monkeys playing in the trees...

We found the Planets near the Ngare Mara swamps on the morning of the 28th. STE has wanted to collar this family for some time, as they use areas south of the reserves and can teach us a lot about elephant movement in this area. Though I've seen...

We heard that there was a poached elephant near Attan on the 19th. The following day we found Resilience, the matriarch of the Virtues, standing in the Ewaso, skinny, listless, and alone. When we got closer we saw blood coming down her front right...

Today we set out to immobilize Graca (M17.86) and her 7-month old calf (M17.8610) of the First Ladies family with Virginia Pearson of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia....

How did the elephant cross the road? Underneath itDusk had settled on Mt. Kenya's forested slopes, and traffic had slowed to a trickle on the region's major highway. That's when three elephants crossed through Africa's first dedicated elephant...

A core motivation of collaring elephants in the Mount Kenya area is to see how elephants will respond to the opening of a newly fenced migration corridor, designed to provide safe passage to elephants who wish to move between Mount Kenya, Lewa,...

Save the Elephants started off the year with an ambitious collaring operation on Mt.Kenya. Kindly supported by the Fehsenfeld family, the Save the Elephants team consisting of David Daballen, Jake Wall and Jerenimo Lepirei worked closely with Ian...

I am in the last few days of my internship and desperately trying to absorb everything I can from both STE and the sights and sounds of Kenya itself. I had been really hoping that I would get the chance to see an elephant immobilisation for...

This young male, named ‘Loirish’, is known for being quite a naughty boy. We found him lurking in the bushes in the Buffalo Springs Reserve, next to an elephant that had died of natural causes that we needed to identify. Needless to say, the job...