Stories

Educating communities is critical to ensuring the future of wildlife and their habitats, and promoting values that cultivate coexistence between humans and wildlife. With about 70% of wildlife living outside protected areas - and with many of those...

One of the main focuses of the Save the Elephants and Elephant Watch Safaris - Education Programme, is to encourage former scholars to give back to their communities. In 2018, five Elephant Scholars graduated from the programme after successfully...

The Elephant Scholarship Programme continues to provide opportunities for needy students from Northern Kenya to get education, beyond the basic Primary School level. This initiative has seen the programme focus on the high school and tertiary...

Education in Kenya is managed by the national government, which is responsible for providing all learning resources for the primary schools. However, due to the challenges of associated with inadequate provision of the required resources, students...

Save the Elephants’ education team recently organized a field trip to the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in the remote Mathews’ Range in northern Kenya for grade 8 pupils from Ngutuk Engiron Primary School.  STE has had a lasting partnership with...

Elephants need space.  Across Africa however these iconic creatures are being squeezed into smaller marginal areas as the continent’s human population rapidly expands.  In Kenya, Save the Elephants is working closely with communities, local and...

Mama Tembos collecting data in the field As women continue to play a critical role in conservation in Africa, one group of community-appointed wildlife ambassadors in Northern...

The Long-term Monitoring Team here at Save the Elephants has been observing a lot of breeding behavior in Samburu over the past few weeks. Dozens of large males have come into what we call “musth,” a state in which a male...

The team at Save the Elephants’ research centre in northern Kenya got the surprise of their life when a lost baby elephant walked into the middle of their camp recently. The team are used to monitoring and occasionally rescuing wild elephants...

As Save The Elephants works towards building a tolerant relationship between man and elephants, our Elephant Scholarship Programme is furthering this mission by providing students with an opportunity to change their lives.Since its inception almost...