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Naisula in Samburu National Reserve earlier this year © Meha Kumar/Save the Elephants In December 2023, Naisula, the tracked matriarch of the Samburu Ladies, led her herd...
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Naisula in Samburu National Reserve earlier this year © Meha Kumar/Save the Elephants In December 2023, Naisula, the tracked matriarch of the Samburu Ladies, led her herd...
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The tuskless male elephant from the Hawaiian Islands family in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. © Olympia Brule/Save the Elephants Save the Elephants (STE) researchers...
This holiday season, give a gift that helps save elephants. Each year, Save the Elephants celebrates our mission-aligned corporate partners by sharing a specially curated conscious gift guide. As you head into the holiday gifting season,...
At Save the Elephants’ (STE) research camp in northern Kenya, scientists are gaining insight into the lives of wild elephants by tracking them day and night using novel real-time technology. STE WildTracks (formerly known as the STE Tracking...
MEET JACINTER, a strong, hard-working, single mother-of-three, farmer and inspiration to her community. She lives in a village bordering Tsavo East National Park, where a cluster of subsistence farms have long been threatened by crop-raiding...
This once-shy twenty-year-old elephant scholar has just accomplished a series of remarkable firsts - the first in her family to complete high school, the first to go to university and the first girl from her community to study the fast-evolving...
With elephant poaching reducing across much of Africa, elephant populations are starting to recover and expand their range. Sadly, this often means they come into conflict with humans. In northern Kenya, a series of recent elephant deaths has...
How to survey wildlife from the air In June, myself and Save the Elephants’ aviation co-ordinator, Paul Kokiro, flew the organisation’s Cessna 206 aircraft for ten days in support of the Kenyan government’s national wildlife census –...
Lomami National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is home to a population of just over 700 forest elephants.In 1970, the Democratic Republic of Congo was home to nearly 300,000 forest elephants. Today there are perhaps fewer than 10,000 ...
Understanding the magnificent, intelligent, and highly endangered forest elephantWhenever African elephants are mentioned, it is understandably the savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) that receives all the headlines. Ask any child in the world...
Young people have the power to change the future of our planet. It is therefore imperative that they understand how changes in Mother Nature affect their current and future livelihoods. Save the Elephants’ (STE) education program endeavors to...
In Samburu, northern Kenya, menstruation amongst adolescent girls is an expensive affair which many cannot afford. Lack of money for sanitary towels means that some girls still resort to unhygienic and ineffective cultural practices. During their...