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Forging Futures in Conservation Careers
Conservation partners and Karatina University leadership at the symposium. © Save the Elephants/Karatina University A symposium organised by Save the Elephants to encourage...
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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...
Progress Report: June 2003
STE Field Officer The mortality survey involves recording elephant carcasses since 1997 by visiting and making detailed a MIKE report for each.Carcasses are found by perusing through documents and records at KWS Stations, written messages from the...
Marsabit Report
It is an oasis in the middle of a desert and is surrounded by the great northern deserts of Kenya, causing it to be isolated from other elephant habitats. For this reason, the genetics of this isolated population should prove to be very interesting....
2003 April Interns
This includes taking our mobile video unit out to local schools, villagers around the reserve, and the entire Rangers community. This is done in conjunction with elephant research which is our core program.In mid April we invited two girls for our...
Community Educational Tour
North of Samburu National reserve lies Kalama conservancy. Far north is Namunyak wildlife conservancy. These two conservancies are owned by the communities and are shared with wild animals.The communities are responding more positively to the idea...
Field visits to Shimba Hills (16th March – 18th March 2003)
The dung samples are to be analysed to determine the stress levels and the relationships between various elephant populations.We went to Shimba Hills Game Reserve first where we found fresh elephant tracks, but unfortunately no elephants were...
Kamunyak, the miracle lioness
Samburu National Reserve has recently become a famous park, across Africa and the whole world today. At the beginning of last year the eighth wonder of world happened here in Kenya. In Samburu a Lioness (now known as Kamunyak) adopted a baby...
Snared Calf
Elephants are always prone to many risks, especially when they go outside the protected area and are likely to get snared or poached both of which always cause much stress or even result in death sometimes.On 20-Jan-03 as I was looking for a...
The Story of Tomboi, the orphaned baby elephant in Samburu
On Friday December 13th 2002 I traveled to Samburu with Laurence for an end of the year bash for Save the Elephants and Elephant Watch Safaris. Often very interesting things happen there but Saturday December 14th was without a doubt one of the...
In memory of Hakim
On the 16th of August 2002 we lost one of our most beautiful and gentle elephant bulls, HAKIM, a 30-35 year old male that had just gone through his first musth period. The vets had to put him down because unknown people had fatally shot him two days...
Green Hunting in Timbavati
On the 9th May 2002 a huge elephant with tusks weighing over 100lbs a side was shot by a Texan hunter, in South Africa.Such large bulls are revered by female elephants, and are very rare in Africa today, as they have been selectively killed for...