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In August, we received an exciting ‘text message’ from Arden, a tracked female from one of Samburu National Reserve’s most renowned elephant families, the Royals. The ‘text’ was sent from her GSP tracking collar directly to our researchers...
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Over the past few months, our conservation education teams have been actively engaged in a series of impactful field activities.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
On the 10th of March 2011, an adult female elephant was killed by poachers at the Nayaa-Korea (Alamach Area). Both of its tusks were missing.Wilson, the STE scout, found her at around half past seven in the evening, the previous day. The female was...
Every so often in monitoring Africa’s continental elephant population, there is a milestone that sticks out. This happens when key elephant populations with a long term history get counted like in Tsavo in Kenya, Selous in Tanzania, the Kruger in...
Conducting research on elephant conservation is a process that entails a lot of activities that are carried out with the help of, and in-conjunction with our donors, researchers, KWS team and STE staff members. This is the case for the month of...
I’m about a month into my internship with STE now, and this is the first time in my life I’ve ever enjoyed a routine. Waking up when the vervet monkeys decide it’s time to play outside my tent is much preferable to the sounds of my mobile...
