Stories

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...

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...

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...

Hi, we are Hannah Mumby and Heather Gurd the new interns at Save the Elephants. Hannah- I arrived at the Save the Elephants camp on Monday 2nd of August and I am very fortunate to be an intern until 29th Following my BA in Biological Anthropology...

During the last few days light rains have provided a welcome respite from the heat in Samburu. However this has meant that the river has become swollen with rainwater, and although it has not risen much (nothing compared to March’s floods anyway),...

In Samburu even going on a routine Long Term Monitoring (LTM) survey of elephants can be a huge adventure. David Daballen, our camp manager, and I set out yesterday evening to monitor the elephants living on the other side of the river. We had...

Camp life can present some unique challenges to overcome, such as inescapable heat, tent-raiding monkeys and the ever-present danger of snakes. However these unique challenges require unique solutions. We have a  resident hawksbill, named...

My name is Mat Beckwith; I am finishing my studies at high school in England, and will have the privilege to be attached to Save The Elephants as an intern for the entire month of July. I have had so many experiences in the past few days that each...

This blog will be more of a legitimate wrap up of the past month, just to let everyone know what we at the STE camp were up to. My job at camp was to wade through the immobilization records for the past 10 years. I matched every paper copy with...

Hey guys. I’m so sorry that it’s the end of the month and my time here at STE, and I’m just now writing an intern blog. This month has sped by, and I can’t believe that I’m about to head home in just 4 days. Since this was my first time...