Stories

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...

Nairobi, 11 March 2010 Flood 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...