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Elephants Hit the Big Screen in the US
The U.S. tour of A Life Among Elephants began with a premiere at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) in Washington, DC, where the film made its U.S.
Sera Collaring Report
Introduction Previously 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...
Death of another matriarch of the Virtues
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...
Chyulu Collaring Operation Report: 15th – 17th March, 2011
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...
How does one remain hopeful when Hope is lost?
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...
A Picture Perfect Opportunity
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...
Poachers kill a Grand Dame of a Great Elephant Family
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...
Elephant Families Captured on Camera Traps in Westgate Community Conservancy
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...
Hope’s Death
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...
Elephant Mortality up, but Population Intact: Tsavo Elephant Count 2011
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...
Samburu Elephant Conservation News
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...