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Empowering Young Conservationists
Over the past few months, our conservation education teams have been actively engaged in a series of impactful field activities.
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Forging Futures in Conservation Careers
A symposium organised by Save the Elephants to encourage more students to pursue a career in conservation was held in central Kenya this year.
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...
Male-mating strategies in elephant bulls
His work combines behavioral observations together with faecal sample collection for hormone and DNA analyses, and detailed monitoring of elephant movements using Global Positioning System collars and radio tracking. The radio-tracking work is part...
Tracking elephants in the Rain Forests of Central Africa
Two years ago Save the Elephants donated four GPS radio collars to a Wildlife Conservation Society project studying elephants in the forest.Since then the WCS team of Steve Blake and his colleagues have been tracking the elephants and accumulating a...
The amazing story of the Lioness and her baby Oryx
My sister Dudu and I were lucky enough to be the only ones to film the complete documentary of the extraordinary and unlikely tale about the strange love a lioness had for an Oryx calf which she adopted within its first week of life.The odd pair was...
The Elephant Incident
We woke up early Wednesday morning as usual to prepare for our daily fieldwork. That particular day, we were planning on returning early.We needed to buy some provisions for the next three days as we were planning to camp inside the park. We started...
Report on the Re-Collaring of Goya
Leslie Scott recently 'bought' the new Lotek GPS1000 collar at auction at the STE/Tusk Trust fundraising event at Sotheby's in London. Goya is the matriarch of one of the resident Samburu elephant families called the 'Artists'. She is a tall,...
Report on the Conservation Education Programme
We provided transport and guides for the trip, which included a visit to Lewa Downs Wildlife Conservancy and Meru National Museum. STE research assistants David Daballen and Sammy Lemantampash accompanied the staff and students. Teachers and...
Elephant Poached
The carcass was found by local herdsmen who were looking for new pasture for their cattle. The elephants' tusks had been cut out with an axe and there were bullet holes in its head and shoulder. The carcass was covered with branches in an attempt to...
Collaring Report
January 2001 Between the 23rd - 26th January, The team consisted of myself, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Dr. Job Githaiga an ex-Kenya Wildlife Service vet who has been involved in most of our collaring operations over the last 3 years, Drs. Juliet King...
Baby Elephants Die
Princeton graduate, Elizabeth Derryberry has recently joined our team up in Samburu for a three month preliminary study in preparation for her PhD. Here are some of her field notes for October:Sadly, the first thing I have to report is two elephant...