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Scaling coexistence across East Africa
A middle-aged woman stood beside sacks of freshly harvested maize, more than she could ever remember harvesting in recent years.
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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 fun of data crunching!
I have now moved on from the head office at Nairobi and I am based at the research camp at Samburu National Reserve. After a couple of game drives and two afternoons of rain, I have spent my time here trying to work out the easiest and quickest way...
Gearing up for Samburu
I am now into my second week of my internship and experiencing my last five days at the Nairobi head office before I set off to Samburu National Reserve on Saturday to join the STE research team. I am especially excited now I have spent the weekend...
My first Blog
Habari! Welcome to my first STE intern blog. I will be working with the STE team at both head office and the research camp for a period of two and three weeks respectively. My name is Louise Bell and I have just finished my MSc at the University...
Iain Douglas-Hamilton’s Indianapolis Prize Acceptance Speech
Westin Hotel, Downtown Indianapolis “Alfre Woodard, Fellow conservationists, distinguished Members of the Prize Committees, and all who have come tonight. The Indianapolis Prize and the Lilly Medal is an honour which reminds us of our...
Heather’s Final Blog
Well the past eight weeks have just flown by and the day has arrived for me to wave a fond farewell to STE. I can honestly say it feels like just yesterday I was scaling the broken bridge for the first time, luggage in tow and doses of anxiety and...
My internship with STE
My name is Judith Njuguna, a Bsc. Geomatics Engineering and Geospatial Information Systems Degree holder from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya and a previous GIS Analyst intern with World Agro-forestry Centre (ICRAF),...
Life goes on…
So this week we waved goodbye to Hannah as she completed her internship with STE, scaled the broken bridge one last time and returned to England to embark on her PhD studies, with which we wish her the very best of luck. I for one would love to hear...
The animals behind the data
Our time in Samburu has been flying by! Heather is working on a project with the Mammal census data and Hannah is working with the Long term Monitoring (LTM) database. In addition to working on the data we have been fortunate enough to help with the...
Recollaring Mountain Bull
Mountain Bull, Mt.Kenya’s best known elephant, is recollared by the STE team On August 5th members of the STE field team joined Ian Craig and his team to re-collar Mountain Bull, one of Kenya’s most elusive and well know elephants. Mountain...
Poaching: the grim reality
We were working on our projects in the camp office when Chris received a phone call saying that two poached elephants had been found. Having never witnessed the cruel reality of poaching before, neither of us were sure what to expect. We drove...