Stories

The First Recorded Forest Elephants in South SudanCamera traps deployed last year in the deep tropical forests that span the border between South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo have provided an unprecedented insight to the wildlife this...

I’ve been at the Save The Elephants Research Camp as an intern for only 3 days and the experience – to say the least – has been awesome! I didn’t think they were serious when they mentioned that we would interact with wildlife… now I know!...

Opening Speech at the Inaugural Giants Club Summit by Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton29th April 2016, Laikipia, Kenya My StoryI have been studying elephants for 50 years, and have served in the National Parks of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....

While the elephant and rhino poaching crisis spreads across Africa, poaching of elephants and rhinos in Kenya has declined by 80% in the last 3 years. This magnificent result comes as a result of major investment in law enforcement, legislation and...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has seen an 80% decline in the population of forest elephants over the last 10 years. The Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the northeast part of the country offers the last remaining stronghold for these elephants....

A week before Kenya’s historic ivory burn, Five tribal leaders flanked by their tribesmen - the Maasai (and Ndorobo), Samburu, Taita, Kalenjin (Pokot and Tugen) and Turkana - gathered, many in full regalia at the Serena Hotel for the first ever...

Fifteen years ago Melissa Groo took on the challenge of creating an Elephant News Service to keep all of the people interested in the science, management, and conservation of elephants informed of the latest happenings in Africa, Asia and around the...

You’ve seen the mighty basketball player’s pitch to save elephants, and Li Bing Bing’s “Say no to ivory” social media blitz, but how many of us know how reducing demand works, and more importantly, is it actually...

The new Standard Gauge Railway, stretching almost 500km from Mombasa to Nairobi, is perhaps the most important transport project Kenya has seen since the building of the first railway in the early 20th century. This railway is being raised above the...

On 15th March 2016 we received an immobility alert from one of our collared elephants in Samburu.  We then received a call from Westgate Conservancy Scouts reporting that a herder had seen an injured, collared elephant in Loijuk. I immediately...