Stories

HUGE SUCCESS AT CITES!!!

"HUGE SUCCESS AT CITES!!! We are delighted to email you from the conference center in Doha to spread the news that both the Zambian and Tanzania elephant proposals to downlist their elephants from Appendix I to Appendix II and to sell their ivory...

The day our camp was washed away by floods

Hello, it's Zeituna again! I also experienced the floods. It happened on the 4th of march. We were alerted before the floods reached our camp by our sister camp; Elephant Watch Safaris. Everyone in camp woke up early and we started removing our...

Flood Update by STE’s new interns

Today is the twelth of March, little over a week after the massive flooding occured here at the Research Camp in the Samburu National Reserve. The entire camp was virtually destroyed, equipment was either washed away or covered in mud and there were...

Flood Relief

Nairobi, 11 March 2010Flood Update by Lucy King "I am up in the research center now in Samburu and helping with the clean up effort. We have quite a large team here now who have done well to try to salvage what they can from the bushes and have even...

How I spent my time in Samburu

My name is Zeituna Mustafa. I am very happy to have gotten this special chance of getting a work experience as a Kenyan intern. My colleague was from Australia, her name is Tempe Adams. I have gotten field and office experience which I didn’t have...

Collaring Project-Last Blog

One of my last projects that I worked on with Save the Elephants was the big collaring operation. The collaring of elephants is very important in assisting the long term research and conservation of the Elephants. It helps STE to better understand...

A day with Lucy and Joseph…

I went out with Lucy King D Phil researcher who is working on a PHD investigating the relationship between Elephants and Bees which is producing very exciting results indeed, and with Joseph Soltis who is a visiting scientist from Disney. Joseph...

Rare Rainy morning

Saturday 13th Feb started out differently than most of my other days at Samburu it was cloudy and very softly raining after the rain that had occurred that night. When it rains apparently a great deal of the animals in the reserve move out as there...

Dead Elephant in Shaba

Today we received a report that a dead elephant was found in the East side of Shaba reserve. We immediately went out to investigate and to write up a MIKE (monitoring the illegal killing of elephants) report. Shaba is known to be a very insecure...

Saving a huge Tusked Bull

Today we went out at 6am to track down an enormous Tusked Bull that we had discovered the previous day. He was a very distinct male with extraordinarily impressive tusks. The bull was unfamiliar to the STE. Upon closer inspection it was clear he was...