Stories

At the 26th ESRI User Conference 2006, Save the Elephants was awarded The Special Achievement in GIS Award by Jack Dangermond.During the award presentation, Jack the President and founder of ESRI hailed Save the Elephants for the highly successful...

A year ago George Wittemyer reported a new elephant and her family sighted within Buffalo Springs National Reserve, the first time this had happened in six years. George made a careful analysis of the age structure of Dorobo and the six calves, and...

Mohammad Sime was a young man of the Borana tribe who lived in Isiolo. He earned his living selling bracelets and other jewellery to the tourists at the Buffalo Springs airstrip. In this way, he was well known to Iain and Oria, who often use this...

I came out here towards the end of January and have been busy with finalising all the student selections and getting them off to school. A lot of interesting things have happened up here in Samburu. Please read on...Students - Nine (9) kids went off...

An intimate Valentine's dinner and concert benefitting Save the Elephants was held in Seattle...On 14th February 2006, Jazz musician Kenny G & actor Pierce Brosnan came together and held a "Save the Elephants" Valentine's Day benefit whose proceeds...

Considering the terrain and ground cover by forest and the road structure it was decided that the most practical and possible way to dart the animal in this area was on foot.The elephants were located either by car, air or through information from...

The most interesting bit of news is regarding a new family identified in Buffalo Springs.We have occasionally come across unknown, very wild groups on the southern border or outside the Buffalo boundary. It has been over 6 years, however, since we...

31st May - 2nd June 2005 On Monday 30th May 2005, David Gachuche, Benard Lesowapir and I drove to Samburu to attend a Wilderness First Aid Course which was conducted by Nick Miller of Rift Valley Adventure.Other people also attending the course...

Columbus was fitted with a Lotek 2000 collar on the 7th of November 2003. He was last seen by the Save the Elephant's long term monitoring team on the 12th of Dec 2003 in Samburu National Reserve (SNR) - a month after the collar was fitted.In April...

Education Party 2005 We held our first Annual Education Party on Saturday the 26th of March. A few students started arriving a couple of days prior to the party and assisted with the arrangements.Schools closed on the 23rd and 24th of March before...