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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...
Collaring the big boys of the elephant world
As elephants gathered in huge numbers in Samburu National Reserve recently, one elephant in particular stood out. An enormous bull called Miguna Miguna had arrived out of the blue, begun chasing females, intimidating other bulls and squaring up to...
Learning in a time of pandemic
On Thursday 12th March 2020, Kenya confirmed the first patient that tested positive for the coronavirus. The following week, a directive to close all learning institutions led to a shutdown of primary schools, high schools and universities...
Meet the Elephant Movement Analysts
When Iain Douglas-Hamilton began radio-tracking elephants in Tanzania in 1968 it transformed our understanding of how far some elephants travel, and how different their individual movements can be. Today, with the original VHF beacons now joined by...