Press releases

Strategic plans set to secure wildlife corridors (Tanzania)

See link for photo. The government is strategising to secure wildlife corridors that have been extensively blocked countrywide, leading to wild animals killing, injuring people and destroying properties and crops. Senior government officials...

Elephants rescued from mud caused by drought at Kenyan dam site

See link for photo.  As East Africa faces its ongoing drought challenges, the dwindling resources can sometimes cause unusual impacts to wildlife.    That was the case in Kenya last week, when two elephants got stuck in the mud that was left...

Conservationists help tackle poaching in Hwange (Zimbabwe)

Hwange National Park, once a favourite hunting ground for poachers, has not lost an elephant to the illegal hunters for the past two years largely because of partnerships between the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) and...

Two miners killed by elephants in southern Tanzania

See link for photo.  Pili Omari Mande, the Lindi regional police commander, said the two miners were attacked by a herd of elephants on their way home from a mining area at Mihima hills in Liwale district. Mande said the elephants with their...

African Courts Need to Take the Lead in Trying Traffickers

See link for photos. It was a mistake. Ten tons of ivory and 190 kilograms of rhino horn were sold over a seven-year period, according to the indictment. It was actually much more than that. Much, much more. Moazu Kromah, a Liberian national, had...

What ‘MIKE’ data is saying about Africa’s elephants

A vast expanse of semi-arid land in northern Kenya - home to an estimated 7,500 elephants, may be acting as an early warning system for threatened elephant populations across Africa.Data on elephant mortality from the Samburu-Laikipia MIKE...

New research deepens insight into elephants 

The better we understand elephants, the more we can find ways to help them. Work recently published by Save the Elephants researchers gives a glimpse not only of how we are deepening our insight into the world of elephants and how this can help...