Stories

The past couple of days have revolved around the bleak but necessary task of locating and identifying injured or dead elephants. Recently I travelled to the relatively close Shaba Reserve in search of an elephant that was reported to have a spear in...

Much of the time at camp has been spent continuing the analysis of the tracking collars efficiency and updating the elephant ID files. The work is progressing steadily but given the amount of data to assess and the number of elephants to update, it...

In support of our ongoing collaboration with Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, and Susannah Rouse, we decided to collar another female in the Asian Cities Family. I felt incredibly lucky to be there for my first collaring when KWS vet, Dr. Chege, was...

One part of the ‘Save the Elephants’ organization I was not fully aware of was their educational program until I accompanyed Daniel on one of his many trips to the nearby West Gate Primary. This is a school that ‘Save the Elephants’ is...

This morning began with the camp being invaded by a frequent visitor, Weird Tusk. His left tusk is bent backwards at an unusual angle (not dissimilar to the legs of a cowboy who has ridden too far). After strolling confidently through the camp he...

All who saw BBC 1’S ‘Secret Life of Elephants’ will remember Mohican, the matriarch of the Native Americans herd. She became a star of the show when she mated with intimidating, car-crusher, Rommel. On top of this she displayed exceptional...

My name is Toby Aisbitt. I am an undergraduate, from the University of Warwick in England attached to Save the Elephants as an intern for the Summer . It all started in a coffee shop in Sloane Square, London, when I first met Iain Douglas Hamilton....

 The e-Biosphere 09 International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics brought together an exceptional array of speakers and participants to highlight the achievements in Biodiversity Informatics today and to discuss strategies for its future....

On the 13th of February Save the Elephants and the Kenya Wildlife Service sent a team of eight down to the North Kenyan coast in pursuit of some of Kenya’s last coastal elephants. In this remote and wild forest that flanks the shores of the Indian...

We received a phone call of the death from Sasaab Lodge Manager, Tony that there was a big bull lying opposite their lodge on the south bank with a collar and only one tusk. Everyone reacted with the assumption that he had been shot because we have...