Stories

On Thursday we took a game drive in the afternoon around the Samburu Reserve with David our Camp Manager as part of the routine Long Term Monitoring Programme. Every elephant that we come across had to be identified as an individual, member of a...

Hi everyone! We are Amy Bennett and Millicent Wanjiku and are both lucky enough to be interning with Save the Elephants for the month of July. Amy is from Liverpool, England and studies Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and Millicent is...

Hi everyone! My name is Ian Hustwick and I have had the privilege of being an intern at Save the Elephants for the last six weeks. Time has gone really fast and I can’t believe that I have only three weeks left here in Samburu. I am here...

At noon on April 28 we were alerted by the STE Automated Poaching Alert system that one of our Mt.Kenya female elephants, Prunella, had triggered a level ‘5’ alert; the highest alert possible and meaning that her collar had not moved more than...

My internship has come to an end after what felt like only a few short weeks. It’s amazing how fast time flies when you’re enjoying life and living in the moment. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here and would do it again in a heartbeat! In...

As part of my Masters of Environment, I chose to do a 37.5 point Environmental Research Topic and somehow managed to score myself the wonderful opportunity of basing my research in Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves, northern Kenya. I...

I’m finishing my last blog from the backpackers in Nairobi, and it’s hard to believe that just this morning I was waking up in my tent to Stumpy the mischievous no-tailed money and the chattering mongoose, and now I’m back in the big city....

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...

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...

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...