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Turning uncertainty into purpose
When Yvonne Seline Ekesa received her university admission letter to study Conservation Biology at Kenyatta University, her first reaction… confusion.
The Death of Resilience
Hello everyone, this is my second dispatch from Kenya, February 9, 2011 I 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...
Interning with Save the Elephants – Kylie Butler
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...
Karibu Samburu
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...
Dust – my first dispatch from Kenya
Hello everyone, this is my first dispatch from Kenya, February 5, 2011 Dust: 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...
Collaring Mercury
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...
An injured Resilience
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...
Collaring Graca
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....
Historic Passage – First elephant passes through new Mt Kenya underpass
How did the elephant cross the road? Underneath it Dusk 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...
Tracking Elephants along the Mt. Kenya Corridor
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,...
Collaring elephants in Mt. Kenya
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...