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In August, we received an exciting ‘text message’ from Arden, a tracked female from one of Samburu National Reserve’s most renowned elephant families, the Royals. The ‘text’ was sent from her GSP tracking collar directly to our researchers...
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Over the past few months, our conservation education teams have been actively engaged in a series of impactful field activities.
February the 12th turned out to be a very unexpectedly exciting day as I’m learning is fairly common with life in Samburu. This afternoon Iain kindly asked myself and STE current Kenyan intern Zeituna if we would like to fly down to Nanyuki with...
On the way back to camp in the evening we came across two huge bulls having a big psychological battle. It was soon revealed that these bulls were very well known characters to the STE team one of the Bulls was Pretty Bom Bom he is notorious for...
At approximately 7:30am yesterday morning on a routine patrol David and Tempe located the newly born Oscar Wilde of the Poetics. The family had not been seen since the night of the birth the previous Friday evening. It was a relief to report that...
David, Tempe and Josephine of STE went out on a routine patrol on Samburu side checking all the families in that area of the reserve. On the way we encountered several families including The Winds family. After checking Winds we encountered another...
Hey I’m Tempe Adams from Australia. I am studying Environmental Science specialising in Biology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Between January 25th and February 21st 2010, I was Save the Elephants new intern. I would like to...
My dear dear friends and familyYour letters and words, prayers and burning candles have been such a comfort for us dealing with a real drought throughout these last 10 months - and now finally I can tell you The Rains Have Come, and together we can...
Dear friends and familyAs I sit on my rock overlooking the beautiful landscape, I can finally tell you "the drought has ended in Samburu" and with it wonderful things have happened. The outlying hills and mountains are dark, as if newly painted...
Today we set out to find a young calf that had been reported abandoned. We headed towards the helter skelter of vultures stretching far up into the sky only to confirm our fears. The calf was dead on arrival.We don’t know which family it was from...
Today I witnessed something I never dreamt I would ever see, an elephant Postmortem. We travelled on foot into the bush wHere a local village had reported a dead elephant. One of the rangers from the area had been watching him for several days. The...
This morning we went to the edge of the park to record the details of a poached elephant. It was a haunting sight to see. Rather than falling on his side he had collapsed forward onto his chest. This made him seem more lifelike and impressive in...
