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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.
After the recent poaching the group that he had been travelling with scattered. They hid in nearby thicket for a day before journeying by night into the centre of the reserve. This is away from the water of the swamps and the resulting vegetation...
Today we responded to reports of an injured bull in the neighbouring region of West Gate. Due to his injury, the group of bulls he travels with had left him behind. With the help of a herder, who was busy digging a water hole for his goats, we found...
Today we had the misfortune of getting a puncture in what can only be described as an inconvenient place. On the one side were buffalo, on the other elephants. It was only David and myself in the car so following his lead we began to change the...
The other morning I was thoroughly outsmarted by a pair of baboons well practiced in the art of theft. One started creeping up to the breakfast table in what looked like an unorganized routine raid. No sooner had I stood to chase him away did his...
Morale was soon lifted by a visit from ‘The Grévy’s Zebra Trust’. Their team, including several Obama t-shirt sporting Americans, ensured that at every meal more talking was done than eating. The ongoing drought has seen a huge number of...
Much of the time at camp has been spent continuing the analysis of the tracking collars efficiency and updating the elephant ID files. The work is progressing steadily but given the amount of data to assess and the number of elephants to update, it...
In support of our ongoing collaboration with Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, and Susannah Rouse, we decided to collar another female in the Asian Cities Family. I felt incredibly lucky to be there for my first collaring when KWS vet, Dr. Chege, was...
Amidst the current drought the birth of the newest member of the Royal Family (below) has been an absolute joy for Save the Elephants’ research team in Samburu. Annabel gave birth to Toto Raj on 15th August 2009. The entire labour and birth was...
The river next to camp remains a beach and the situation is becoming desperate. Any spare time has been spent praying for rain and an end to the ongoing drought. This has included frequent visits to "www.howtoraindance.com"! Monkeys have been...
The past couple of days have revolved around the bleak but necessary task of locating and identifying injured or dead elephants. Recently I travelled to the relatively close Shaba Reserve in search of an elephant that was reported to have a spear in...
