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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...
Samburu Long Term Monitoring Monthly Report May 2008
A brief summary of recordings in Samburu on the Long Term Monitoring for the month of May 2008 Total monthly rainfall Nil Number of Days Spent Monitoring: 17 days Total Number of Individuals Recorded: 454 Total Number Bulls: 18 Total Number...
Samburu Long Term Monitoring Monthly Report Apr 2008
A brief summary of recordings in Samburu on the Long Term Monitoring for the month of Apr 2008Total monthly rainfall: 236mm Number of Days Spent Monitoring: 16 days Total Number of Individuals Recorded: 393 Total Number Bulls: 4 Total Number...
First Phase of the cattle collaring
Ilgwezi Cattle Collaring:Cattle tagging was an idea that was flown around by Iain sometimes back, to see how cattle or livestock in general can interact with wildlife particularly elephants who seem to be having wide and far ranges. March 11, after...
Samburu Long Term Monitoring Monthly Report Feb 2008
A brief summary of recordings in Samburu on our Long Term Monitoring for the month of February 2008.Total monthly rainfall Nil. Number of Days Spent Monitoring: 16 days. Total Number of Individuals Recorded: 284 Total Number Bulls: 8. Total Number...
STE Annual Report 2006
Threats to the continued existence of elephants shift over the years. The syndrome of “too many elephants” in parks and reserves, described in the 60s, gave way to devastating ivory poaching in the 70s and 80s, until the trade was banned. In the...
Visit from Ethiopia: Yirmed Demeke, Addis Ababa
On a number of occasions Save the Elephants has been sharing its expertise and training visiting researchers. For example, we assisted Hemma from Sehal in West Africa and Steve and Michelle from South Africa to set up an individual identification...
A Conservation Group from Thailand
Save the Elephants has hosted many visiting research groups in its Samburu camp from different parts of Kenya, and sometimes from further a field like South Africa, or even Sri Lanka and North America. These teams of researchers and government...
Twins in Samburu/Buffalo Reserves
Save the elephants long term monitoring team normally goes out in the field almost every-other day. On 26-Sep-06 we received a report from Kenya Wildlife Services, who are based in a nearby complex that a female elephant had given birth to twins in...
Anastasia and Grace…
Today we saw one of those elephant behaviours which make us wonder what is going on in the heads of these complex, conscious beings.The Royals are the largest family unit of elephants we have identified within Samburu, Buffalo Springs and Shaba...
Elephants of the Red Volta
In July this year, EarthWatch Institute (Europe) offered Save the Elephants a fully-funded place on one of its projects, Elephants of the Red Volta in Ghana-African capacity building programme. The Project aims to provide information to conserve the...