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Like Us, Elephants Have Names Too!
A groundbreaking study on African elephant communication has revealed that elephants, like humans, use ‘names’ to address each other.
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The Elephant Queen: How a wildlife documentary inspired rural Kenya
Powerful, award-winning nature films like ‘The Elephant Queen’ have the potential to reshape attitudes and garner support for elephants in rural communities, according to a new study.
China destroys ivory stockpile in ‘significant symbolic step towards saving Africa’s elephants’
At the ceremony in Guangzhou on the 6th of January, officials from the State Forestry Administration will make the strongest demonstration yet that China intends to end her role in the destruction of Africa's elephants. In December 2013 the US Government - which presides over the world's second-biggest ivory market - also destroyed its entire ivory stockpile.
Kenya: State to Foster Human-Wildlife Habitation
Since 1995 Save the Elephants has been at the forefront of developing live tracking technology to monitor and interpret elephant movements. The technology is constantly being updated and improved. Bulky radio-tracking collars are being replaced by...
Cold War Radioactivity Helps Fight Trade in Illegal Elephant Ivory
PHOTO CREDIT: © SEAN DUNDAS Press Release A new method for dating elephant tusks has been established that is expected to make it easier to enforce the current worldwide...
One of Africa’s best-studied elephant populations reveals the disturbing impacts of poaching
PHOTO CREDIT: © STE Press Release The devastating impacts of a recent surge in ivory poaching have been chronicled in detail by new research on one of Africa’s...
Thinking Big: The Secret of Survival among Mali’s Desert Elephants
PHOTO CREDIT: © CHYULU SMITH Press Release Satellite tracking of elephants living near Timbuktu has revealed the secret of their survival in the savage conditions of...
The Race for Ivory is on
PHOTO CREDIT: © BECKY WALTER PRESS RELEASE July 12th 2011 Elephant expert Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton and his team sound the alarm on highest elephant poaching in...
Beehive fences as effective deterrents for crop-raiding Elephants: field trials in northern Kenya
Increasing elephant populations in Kenya since 1989 have been widely praised as a conservation success story. However, where elephants and agricultural land overlap, incidents of human–elephant conflict are on the increase. Wildlife managers and...
Elephant Expert Iain Douglas-Hamilton Receives 2010 Indianapolis Prize
PHOTO CREDIT: © ROB BANAYOTE Press Release WASHINGTON --- Relentless in his lifelong devotion to the elephants’ survival, Save the Elephants founder Iain...
ANIMAL PLANET PROVIDES A PORTAL INTO THE SECRET LIFE OF ELEPHANTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tahli Kouperstein, 240-662-2221 [email protected] Nikki Pesusich, 818-788-7650 [email protected] ANIMAL PLANET PROVIDES A PORTAL INTO THE SECRET LIFE OF ELEPHANTS -- On May 16, Experience the World of...
Elephants have word for ‘bee-ware’
Press ReleaseFor the first time elephants have been found to produce an alarm call associated with the threat of bees, and have been shown to retreat when a recording of the call is played even when there are no bees around. A team of scientists...