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Frida, from the Artists family, has just given birth to her third calf - the 101st recorded in Samburu so far this year, already surpassing last year’s total of just 37.
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As it turns out, even giants need their rest. For years, scientists assumed wild elephants barely slept.
It is an oasis in the middle of a desert and is surrounded by the great northern deserts of Kenya, causing it to be isolated from other elephant habitats. For this reason, the genetics of this isolated population should prove to be very interesting....
North of Samburu National reserve lies Kalama conservancy. Far north is Namunyak wildlife conservancy. These two conservancies are owned by the communities and are shared with wild animals. The communities are responding more positively to the...
The dung samples are to be analysed to determine the stress levels and the relationships between various elephant populations. We went to Shimba Hills Game Reserve first where we found fresh elephant tracks, but unfortunately no elephants were...
Samburu National Reserve has recently become a famous park, across Africa and the whole world today. At the beginning of last year the eighth wonder of world happened here in Kenya. In Samburu a Lioness (now known as Kamunyak) adopted a baby...
Elephants are always prone to many risks, especially when they go outside the protected area and are likely to get snared or poached both of which always cause much stress or even result in death sometimes. On 20-Jan-03 as I was looking for a...
On Friday December 13th 2002 I traveled to Samburu with Laurence for an end of the year bash for Save the Elephants and Elephant Watch Safaris. Often very interesting things happen there but Saturday December 14th was without a doubt one of the most...
On the 16th of August 2002 we lost one of our most beautiful and gentle elephant bulls, HAKIM, a 30-35 year old male that had just gone through his first musth period. The vets had to put him down because unknown people had fatally shot him two days...
On the 9th May 2002 a huge elephant with tusks weighing over 100lbs a side was shot by a Texan hunter, in South Africa. Such large bulls are revered by female elephants, and are very rare in Africa today, as they have been selectively killed for...
His work combines behavioral observations together with faecal sample collection for hormone and DNA analyses, and detailed monitoring of elephant movements using Global Positioning System collars and radio tracking. The radio-tracking work is part...
Two years ago Save the Elephants donated four GPS radio collars to a Wildlife Conservation Society project studying elephants in the forest. Since then the WCS team of Steve Blake and his colleagues have been tracking the elephants and...
