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A new study by Save the Elephants (STE) and the University of Oxford shows that drones, when flown high and carefully, can be powerful and non-invasive tools for monitoring wild elephant families.
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In part two of the series, we follow the adventures of eight elephants whose remarkable journeys have deepened our understanding of how these giants navigate Kenya’s changing landscapes.
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...
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 share...
My dear dear friends and family Your 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...
Dear friends and family As 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...
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...
