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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.
Today we set out to immobilize Graca (M17.86) and her 7-month old calf (M17.8610) of the First Ladies family with Virginia Pearson of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia....
How did the elephant cross the road? Underneath itDusk had settled on Mt. Kenya's forested slopes, and traffic had slowed to a trickle on the region's major highway. That's when three elephants crossed through Africa's first dedicated elephant...
A core motivation of collaring elephants in the Mount Kenya area is to see how elephants will respond to the opening of a newly fenced migration corridor, designed to provide safe passage to elephants who wish to move between Mount Kenya, Lewa,...
Save the Elephants started off the year with an ambitious collaring operation on Mt.Kenya. Kindly supported by the Fehsenfeld family, the Save the Elephants team consisting of David Daballen, Jake Wall and Jerenimo Lepirei worked closely with Ian...
I am in the last few days of my internship and desperately trying to absorb everything I can from both STE and the sights and sounds of Kenya itself. I had been really hoping that I would get the chance to see an elephant immobilisation for...
This young male, named ‘Loirish’, is known for being quite a naughty boy. We found him lurking in the bushes in the Buffalo Springs Reserve, next to an elephant that had died of natural causes that we needed to identify. Needless to say, the job...
Having an elephant mission to go on is always so much fun. This time we had discovered early in the morning that a female, name ‘Drachma’ had set foot in Buffalo Springs for the very first time. It was therefore important to get out and find her...
When sleeping in a tent in the bush, each night I wonder what kind of nocturnal activity I may get to listen to next. At the slightest sound of munching, grumbling or digging I try to secretly peer through a corner of the window into the darkness to...
Today was a very special treat as the local school in Westgate was having a big ceremony to celebrate the opening of several new buildings that had been donated to them by various groups, including STE.What was also wonderful for them was that the...
In November 2010, the Mt. Kenya Elephant corridor by sponsored largely by Virgin Atlantic was commissioned. The elephant corridor seeks to provide an alternative natural passage for the jumbos in the Ewaso ecosystem, away from their historical...
