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Local awareness of the benefits of elephants is critical to their future, so we were delighted to lead the design and implementation of a world-class and interactive new visitor centre for the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya.
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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...
Considering the terrain and ground cover by forest and the road structure it was decided that the most practical and possible way to dart the animal in this area was on foot.The elephants were located either by car, air or through information from...
The most interesting bit of news is regarding a new family identified in Buffalo Springs. We have occasionally come across unknown, very wild groups on the southern border or outside the Buffalo boundary. It has been over 6 years, however, since...
31st May - 2nd June 2005 On Monday 30th May 2005, David Gachuche, Benard Lesowapir and I drove to Samburu to attend a Wilderness First Aid Course which was conducted by Nick Miller of Rift Valley Adventure. Other people also attending the course...
Columbus was fitted with a Lotek 2000 collar on the 7th of November 2003. He was last seen by the Save the Elephant's long term monitoring team on the 12th of Dec 2003 in Samburu National Reserve (SNR) - a month after the collar was fitted. In...
Education Party 2005 We held our first Annual Education Party on Saturday the 26th of March. A few students started arriving a couple of days prior to the party and assisted with the arrangements. Schools closed on the 23rd and 24th of March...
Eleanor one of our elephants collapsed and on 11th October 2003, she died. Below is an eyewitness story by one of our researchers. On the 10th of October 2003, the Save the Elephants research team in Samburu were informed by the rangers that an...
Our most loved plane Alpha Oscar Tango, a Cessna 185, crashed in Samburu on Sept. 11th at 6:15pm when it hit a zebra on landing. Iain and his researcher David Daballen managed to scramble out of the windows and both got away with some minor cuts and...
It was very successful and more recently, we invited two other students to our research centre. We welcomed two girls, Halima and Patina to STE in August. They were both incredibly keen to learn more about our work and were thrilled when they heard...
We also take the local villagers around the reserves and give lectures to school children. Our main aim is to increase conservation awareness amonsgt the local people and school children. St Teresa's Girls High School, located in Wamba, is one of...
In order to retrieve the already stored data from the GPS 2000 collars, the elephant has to be darted to get the collar off. Thirdly, 4 elephants have GPS 1000 collars. To retrieve the data off these collars, we approach the elephant within close...
