Stories

Eleven years ago, a very bright Samburu boy from Oldonyiro, was lucky to be among the few students who were identified and enrolled to the Save the Elephants/Elephant Watch Scholarship Program. It has been an awe-inspiring journey for everyone here...

Save The Elephants' 2016 limited edition T-Shirt series is out! Following the runaway success of the 2014 and 2015 designs we've had lots of enquires about this year's version, so here it is. Don't miss out!This one we've named 'Make Way for...

Armed with a simple yet trendy t-shirt design, a group of five young entrepreneurs with a mission to produce good clothes for a good cause took the online clothing world to a new level in early 2015. This month, STE is revved up and preparing for...

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...

On a chilly Friday morning in November, at 8am, students from six universities began to trickle in. You could see the anticipation on their faces as they collected their Save the Elephants notebooks and sat down for the first ever symposium on...

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...

STE have helped bring together a coalition, which could change the future for elephants. A new dawn for elephants broke on 26th September, when Hillary and Chelsea Clinton brokered an $80m partnership to bring an end to the ivory poaching crisis.

Demand for ivory in China may have either remained stable or even decreased slightly in 2014 and the first half of 2015, new data suggests. Ivory (illegally) offered for sale online in China fetched similar prices in 2014 as it had the previous...

Friends of Elephants, You will have heard of China's astonishing vow to end the ivory trade within their borders. This, accompanied by yet another ivory crush in Beijing demonstrates their will to set about ending the ivory trade. It is the...