by Njoki Kibanya | Jul 10, 2018
Tracking – Real Time Monitoring STE uses GPS-tracking equipment to understand elephant lives, decisions and needs. STE founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton was the first to track elephants using radio collars and STE remains at the forefront of tracking technology. The...
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...
by roshnipesh | Sep 9, 2015
Geo-Fencing A text message just came in to a local farmer’s phone: Mountain Bull at Ngare Ndare Pass. Geofence break time: 0945hr, Geofence position break Estimated Latitude: 1.168867, Estimated Longitude: 37.581724. This seemingly dry text message had powerful...
by roshnipesh | Sep 9, 2015
STE and Google Earth For a long time, conservation and technology evolved independently. Today, conservation has inextricable links with information technology, and innovative solutions to conservation problems now abound. STE’s ground-breaking collaboration with...
by roshnipesh | Sep 9, 2015
The Desert Elephants of Mali Satellite tracking of elephants living near Timbuktu has revealed the secret of their survival in the savage conditions of Mali’s desert. Through the tracking data from collared elephants, STE have found that the elephants of Africa’s...
by roshnipesh | Sep 9, 2015
Orphans of Samburu The surge in poaching over the last several years and the drought of 2009 have left many elephant orphans and disrupted families in Samburu. Some orphans choose to remain with what is left of their disrupted groups, others leave their natal group to...
by roshnipesh | Sep 3, 2015
Elephant Communication: The Power of Rumbles Over millions of years of evolution, African savannah elephants have developed complex communication capabilities, producing vocalizations with low fundamental frequencies that can travel over long distances. Recent studies...
by roshnipesh | Sep 3, 2015
Elephant Accelerometers The smartphone revolution is bringing benefits for elephants. The proliferation of small, economical sensors for use in cellphones has allowed us to start using these sensitive devices to better understand – and protect – elephants....
by roshnipesh | Jul 31, 2015
Long Term Monitoring Over the last 15 years, the Samburu elephant population has become one of the best studied in the world. The 1000 or so elephants that use the reserves are recognized individually by the shape of their ears and tusks. Births, deaths and...
by roshnipesh | Jul 31, 2015
Internships Applications for internships at STE’s Samburu research project are now open. Each year, we accept a small number of interns to Save the Elephants in Kenya. These internships comprise 1-3 month professional placements with one of our research projects in...
by roshnipesh | Jul 30, 2015
Elephant Movements Having studied elephants within Samburu and further up North near the Kenya Ethiopia border, David says “given the distances we had to travel to move from one population to the next, we never dreamed the two groups of families had ever interacted....
by roshnipesh | Jul 30, 2015
Counting Elephants The knowledge of declines and surges in population help conservationists and managers plan to avoid conflict, or put measures in place when the elephants are on the brink. Accurate application of tried and tested methodology has held Iain...
by roshnipesh | Jul 30, 2015
Reducing Conflict Elephants are herbivores and hence have no reason to attack man unless it’s in self-defence. However, as both families and bull elephants migrate through the landscape looking for food and water they will take advantage of any juicy crops they come...
by roshnipesh | May 17, 2015
Samburu Elephant Project The Samburu Elephant Project is the longest running study of its kind in the region. Combining individual recognition of elephants with real time monitoring of collared elephants, along with an on-going body count within the Monitoring the...
