Update (Nairobi) Following the devastating flood yesterday evening which destroyed both Save the Elephants (STE) research facility and Elephant Watch Safari Camp located in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, the relief, funding and reconstruction effort is firmly under way. Incredibly, no staff were hurt or injured, and the majority of wildlife, including the elephant population, was also not harmed by the deluge. Staff today salvaged what remained of computers, key ...

Media Release (Nairobi, 4 March 2010) Early this morning Save the Elephants (STE) research facility and Elephant Watch Safari Camp located in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, were completely destroyed by unexpected flooding of the Ewaso Ng’iro River, along with seven other neighbouring lodges. At approximately 5am this morning, a wall of water akin to a Tsunami surged through Elephant Watch Camp, catching tourists and staff unawares and sweeping away tents and facilities. ...

Press Release The future of a rare herd of desert elephants in Mali is under threat from one of the worst droughts in living memory, which has left a key water source at its lowest level in a quarter of a century and is breaking down the usual peaceful co-existence between the elephants and local herdsmen. The 350 to 450 elephants of Gourma, the northernmost herds still alive in Africa, are being forced to trek ever-longer distances within the Sahel on the fringes of the ...

OL PEJETA, Kenya (AP) — The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms. The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers' crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time. But this time a mobile phone card inserted in his collar sent rangers a text message. Lesowapir, an armed guard and a driver arrived in a jeep bristling with spotlights to frighten Kimani back into ...

Press Release April 6, 2006 Douglas-Hamilton Receives $100,000 Grant from Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund To Support the Critical Conservation Work of Save the Elephants Contact:Save the ElephantsIain Douglas-Hamilton254-20-236 2730iain@savetheelephants.org KENYA, Africa – April 6, 2006 – Save The Elephants (STE) announced today that founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Ph.D. was ...

Press Release Save the Elephants is pleased to announce the publication of the results of a collaboration between our Kenya based conservation body and Dr Thure Cerling of Utah University. The paper describes a novel technique for measuring carbon isotopes in elephant tail hairs that reconstructs what individual elephants have been eating over the course of several years. It is combined with very precise radio-tracking of the same elephants using GPS technology. The finding will be ...

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