Stories

The Water Promise – A story told on the banks of Lake Jipe

Manolo is 40 years old, marked wrinkles all over his face, a pierced right ear and peaceful dark eyes. He’s one of the veterans of the area. When asked, people will tell you that his community always lived there and that he has been around for...

Two methods helping with living in harmony with elephants

Elephants are known crop raiders, so understanding the timing of the raid and the choice of crops through tracking and frequent monitoring is crucial in developing targeted elephant monitoring and effective mitigation strategies. Different local...

Counting Elephants: Modern vs. Traditional Survey Methods

The idea of using satellites to count elephants has hit the news again. Unfortunately simple barriers - trees and clouds - stand in the way of getting accurate estimates of elephant numbers from space. Counting elephants and other large animals...

First hand account of vehicle attack by raging musth bull

There's an African proverb that goes...' when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers'. In May 2002, it was more than the grass that suffered after a bull named Rommel redirected his aggression towards one of our research vehicles in...

Setting up an organic smelly repellent fence

A bucket full of Cow dung, a few shovels of rotting eggs, handfuls of ginger and garlic and some green neem leaves may not sound like a gourmet meal, but that’s what the Elephants and Bees team have been cooking up for the last three weeks, and...

YOUR HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

SHARE YOUR LOVE OF ELEPHANTS THIS GIVING SEASON WITH GIFTS THAT GIVE BACK TO NATURE  The holiday season is fast approaching! If you haven’t figured out what to give your loved ones yet, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Ivory Ella For...

Understanding Human-Elephant Conflict

On the shores of Lake Jipe, which straddles the border between Kenya and Tanzania, an uneasy standoff persists—not between belligerent armies, but humans and elephants. In this area, which is on the western boundary of Kenya’s Tsavo West...

Helping Children Save The Elephants

‘In a single decade between 1979 and 1989, half of all of Africa’s elephants were lost to the ivory trade, according to pan African census conducted by Save The Elephants’ Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton.’ For this reason, it is extremely...

MEET LUNA

Luna is a 19 year old female elephant who shares our home in Samburu National Park in northern Kenya. She is a young mum. She gave birth to a baby girl in 2016. The rains are here in Samburu and Luna and her herd have been exploring the entire...