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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.
One part of the ‘Save the Elephants’ organization I was not fully aware of was their educational program until I accompanyed Daniel on one of his many trips to the nearby West Gate Primary. This is a school that ‘Save the Elephants’ is...
This morning began with the camp being invaded by a frequent visitor, Weird Tusk. His left tusk is bent backwards at an unusual angle (not dissimilar to the legs of a cowboy who has ridden too far). After strolling confidently through the camp he...
All who saw BBC 1’S ‘Secret Life of Elephants’ will remember Mohican, the matriarch of the Native Americans herd. She became a star of the show when she mated with intimidating, car-crusher, Rommel. On top of this she displayed exceptional...
My name is Toby Aisbitt. I am an undergraduate, from the University of Warwick in England attached to Save the Elephants as an intern for the Summer . It all started in a coffee shop in Sloane Square, London, when I first met Iain Douglas Hamilton....
The e-Biosphere 09 International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics brought together an exceptional array of speakers and participants to highlight the achievements in Biodiversity Informatics today and to discuss strategies for its future....
On the 13th of February Save the Elephants and the Kenya Wildlife Service sent a team of eight down to the North Kenyan coast in pursuit of some of Kenya’s last coastal elephants. In this remote and wild forest that flanks the shores of the Indian...
We received a phone call of the death from Sasaab Lodge Manager, Tony that there was a big bull lying opposite their lodge on the south bank with a collar and only one tusk. Everyone reacted with the assumption that he had been shot because we have...
BBC One, 9pmHere's one for folk who enjoy watching elephants mucking around in the sunshine with thoroughly nice people looking out for their welfare. Save the Elephants is an African charity led by Iain Douglas-Hamilton and his daughter Saba, which...
We received a report from one of the lion researchers who is stationed in West gate saying that a sick elephant had been sighted in that area few days ago now and that we needed to go and haved look. The following day my team and I left early in the...
A brief summary of recordings in Samburu on the Long Term Monitoring for the month of Dec 2008.Total monthly rainfall: Nil Number of Days Spent Monitoring: 14 days Total Number of Individuals Recorded: 265 Total Number Bulls: 13 Total Number...
