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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.
Lomami National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is home to a population of just over 700 forest elephants.In 1970, the Democratic Republic of Congo was home to nearly 300,000 forest elephants. Today there are perhaps fewer than 10,000 ...
Understanding the magnificent, intelligent, and highly endangered forest elephant Whenever African elephants are mentioned, it is understandably the savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) that receives all the headlines. Ask any child in the...
Understanding the magnificent, intelligent, and highly endangered forest elephantWhenever African elephants are mentioned, it is understandably the savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) that receives all the headlines. Ask any child in the world...
Young people have the power to change the future of our planet. It is therefore imperative that they understand how changes in Mother Nature affect their current and future livelihoods. Save the Elephants’ (STE) education program endeavors to...
In Samburu, northern Kenya, menstruation amongst adolescent girls is an expensive affair which many cannot afford. Lack of money for sanitary towels means that some girls still resort to unhygienic and ineffective cultural practices. During their...
A young orphaned elephant who survived the horror of her mother being killed by poachers and eventually gave birth to two calves of her own, has tragically been found dead in northern Kenya. Shafaa (aged 21) was one of eight elephants reported to...
Alongside other wildlife organizations, our Elephant Crisis Fund is a proud recipient of funds from the Tiffany 'Save The Wild' collection, which has now raised more than US$10 million. Congratulations to Tiffany & Co. on this amazing...
Manolo is 40 years old, marked wrinkles all over his face, a pierced right ear and peaceful dark eyes. He’s one of the veterans of the area. When asked, people will tell you that his community always lived there and that he has been around for...
Elephants are known crop raiders, so understanding the timing of the raid and the choice of crops through tracking and frequent monitoring is crucial in developing targeted elephant monitoring and effective mitigation strategies. Different local...
The idea of using satellites to count elephants has hit the news again. Unfortunately simple barriers - trees and clouds - stand in the way of getting accurate estimates of elephant numbers from space. Counting elephants and other large animals...
