Stories

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...

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...

Hi everyone, my name is Jesse and I am doing a 7 week internship here at STE in Samburu. I graduated last July in a BSc Hons in Animal Management and am thrilled to have been given the opportunity to gain real field experience in elephant...

While many would call monitoring wild animals a ‘strange career’ of sorts, to Susie Weeks and Festus Ihwagi, it is a passion, an inspiration. Last weekend, the final touches to the new face of conservation: a migration corridor courtesy of...

I have now completed one of my three weeks at camp and I can’t believe where time is going. I hope the next two weeks don’t go as quick. The weekend has flown by as we have been out carrying out the long term monitoring of the elephants around...

After four days at camp slowly working through the first elephant in the collaring data for my project, I headed out into the field with three of the STE team to find some elephants (this is the best medicine for square eyes from staring at an excel...