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An Adventurer and a Teacher
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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Mystery of Tuskless Male African Elephant Leaves Scientists Puzzled
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...
Hopes and Fears for Africa’s Elephants: Trends and their Causes
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....
Conservation Community Leaders Meeting
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...
Mourning a Fallen Warrior
We can’t forget the day Koyaso stood up in front of the crowd, confessing he had been a poacher for 17 years, and that he was done. 17 years. In that time, he had trained several men to follow in his footsteps, and now, he was calling them all out...
Judging Wildlife
On the 9th of April 2013, Uhuru Kenyatta became Kenya’s first president to take on poaching in his inaugural address.
Stop Demand
Chinese superstar Li Bing Bing on why we should save elephants.
The Tech behind Tracking
The science of wildlife monitoring is evolving rapidly and drones, wireless sensors, satellite communications and cloud computing are all becoming common tools in the conservationist/ecologist’s toolbox. Next month, I will be commencing a...
Four-Legged Soldiers in Fight Against Wildlife Poaching
Man’s best friend is playing an increasing role in the struggle to save wildlife in Africa. The unprecedented surge in both poaching and trafficking of wildlife is prompting government authorities, non-government groups and private land...
New York Meetings Grow Coalition
A series of meetings in New York in late September have further cemented the growing global coalition to save elephants.During a speech the Annual Summit (which you can view here) convened by the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), President Ali Bongo...