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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.
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...
Today we saw one of those elephant behaviours which make us wonder what is going on in the heads of these complex, conscious beings.The Royals are the largest family unit of elephants we have identified within Samburu, Buffalo Springs and Shaba...
In July this year, EarthWatch Institute (Europe) offered Save the Elephants a fully-funded place on one of its projects, Elephants of the Red Volta in Ghana-African capacity building programme. The Project aims to provide information to conserve the...
At the 26th ESRI User Conference 2006, Save the Elephants was awarded The Special Achievement in GIS Award by Jack Dangermond.During the award presentation, Jack the President and founder of ESRI hailed Save the Elephants for the highly successful...
Mohammad Sime was a young man of the Borana tribe who lived in Isiolo. He earned his living selling bracelets and other jewellery to the tourists at the Buffalo Springs airstrip. In this way, he was well known to Iain and Oria, who often use this...
A year ago George Wittemyer reported a new elephant and her family sighted within Buffalo Springs National Reserve, the first time this had happened in six years. George made a careful analysis of the age structure of Dorobo and the six calves, and...
