Elephants and Bees

by roshnipesh | Nov 15, 2015

Elephants and Bees The Elephants and Bees Project is an innovative study using an in-depth understanding of elephant behaviour to reduce damage from crop-raiding elephants using their instinctive avoidance of African honey bees. The project explores the use of novel...

Creating Elephant Ambassadors (Mobile Education)

by roshnipesh | Sep 9, 2015

Creating Elephant Ambassadors (Mobile Education) The tutorial titled ‘Living in Harmony with Elephants’ makes use of photos, video clips, visual aids, posters and both indoor and outdoor physical exercises, pulling children out of the rigmarole of normal lessons into...

Internships for Elephant Scholars

by roshnipesh | Sep 9, 2015

Internships for Elephant Scholars This program has been a win-win venture. For the teaching leg, the students gain vital skills in all the sectors they work in. In turn, the children get new energetic teachers, while the teachers and staff benefit from much needed...

Wildlife Corridors

by roshnipesh | Jul 31, 2015

Wildlife Corridors Since 2006, Save the Elephants had been able to deploy a GSM collar on a well-known bull called Mountain Bull. Before he was poached in 2014, he had been monitored for 8 years and we had watched him “streak” over 40 times, crossing between Borana...

HEC Toolbox

by roshnipesh | May 9, 2015

HEC Toolbox We do not want to lose sight of perhaps the most significant issue for elephants today across Africa, that of an increasing human population, climate change and an ever-increasing fragmentation of wildlife areas. This is going to be one of the hardest...