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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.
On the 27th of February 2011, a young sub-adult female elephant, about 10-12 years was found dead near the Isiolo River, being eaten by lions. Tour drivers, who initially had found the carcass, notified the KWS and the STE teams.The carcass was...
The other day we had a bit of a change of pace from wildlife monitoring. Our mission was to retrieve the five cattle collars that have been giving STE data for the last year and a half.The objective of this project was to better understand...
On The 25th of February 2011, poachers who shot an adult male elephant, made away with both of her tusks, leaving the elephant wounded. Unfortunately, the elephant succumbed to the gun shot wounds.The locals living in that area had heard the...
Smatterings of rain and one impressive dawn thunderstorm have proven a successful (if inconvenient) elephant deterrent thus halting sound experiments for the last three days. The one family that didn’t appear to mind was the First Ladies. Two days...
Hello everyone, this is my second dispatch from Kenya, February 9, 2011I have some sad news. Resilience succumbed to her bullet wounds and has perished. We found her yesterday in an open plain where she spent her last hours. Allow me to tell you a...
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...
Hello everyone, this is my first dispatch from Kenya, February 5, 2011Dust: Driving down from the plateaus of Mount Kenya, we entered dry country. In Samburu National Reserve I squinted my eyes to scan across the arid plain where a line of light...
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...
