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Introduction:This exercise followed the one done early March and mid May this year by both STE, Lewa Henrik and NRT. The initial target was not attained in terms of how many collars we will deploy, and since this is the first time also to tag cattle...

A brief summary of recordings in Samburu on the Long Term Monitoring for the month of June 2008 Total monthly rainfall: Nil Number of Days Spent Monitoring: 5 days Total Number of Individuals Recorded: 188 Total Number Bulls: 2 Total Number...

A brief summary of recordings in Samburu on the Long Term Monitoring for the month of May 2008 Total monthly rainfall Nil Number of Days Spent Monitoring: 17 days Total Number of Individuals Recorded: 454 Total Number Bulls: 18 Total Number...

 A brief summary of recordings in Samburu on the Long Term Monitoring for the month of Apr 2008Total monthly rainfall: 236mm Number of Days Spent Monitoring: 16 days Total Number of Individuals Recorded: 393 Total Number Bulls: 4 Total Number...

Ilgwezi Cattle Collaring:Cattle tagging was an idea that was flown around by Iain sometimes back, to see how cattle or livestock in general can interact with wildlife particularly elephants who seem to be having wide and far ranges. March 11, after...

A brief summary of recordings in Samburu on our Long Term Monitoring for the month of February 2008.Total monthly rainfall Nil. Number of Days Spent Monitoring: 16 days. Total Number of Individuals Recorded: 284 Total Number Bulls: 8. Total Number...

Threats to the continued existence of elephants shift over the years. The syndrome of “too many elephants” in parks and reserves, described in the 60s, gave way to devastating ivory poaching in the 70s and 80s, until the trade was banned. In the...

On a number of occasions Save the Elephants has been sharing its expertise and training visiting researchers. For example, we assisted Hemma from Sehal in West Africa and Steve and Michelle from South Africa to set up an individual identification...

Save the Elephants has hosted many visiting research groups in its Samburu camp from different parts of Kenya, and sometimes from further a field like South Africa, or even Sri Lanka and North America. These teams of researchers and government...

Save the elephants long term monitoring team normally goes out in the field almost every-other day. On 26-Sep-06 we received a report from Kenya Wildlife Services, who are based in a nearby complex that a female elephant had given birth to twins in...