save the elephants
Save the Elephants was founded in 1993 by Iain
Douglas-Hamilton. A research & conservation organisation, Save the
Elephants (STE) is a UK-registered charity headquartered in Nairobi with
its principal research station in Samburu National Reserve in northern
Kenya.
STE’s mission is to secure a future for elephants and sustain
the beauty and ecological integrity of the places they live, to promote man’s
delight in their intelligence and the diversity of their world, and to develop
a tolerant relationship between the two species.
The elephants of Samburu are now one of the best-studied
elephant populations in the world, with detailed histories of almost 1,000
individuals and their interactions over the last 18 years. Data from their
behaviour and population dynamics have allowed scientists to understand
the impacts of the ivory poaching crisis on populations across Africa.
Pioneers in radio and GPS tracking of elephants, STE works
to understand ecosystems from an elephant’s perspective. Real-time
information on their movements is proving a powerful tool to protect herds from
poachers, and long-term data allows us to influence landscape planning to take
elephants into account. With four members of staff on the African Elephant
Specialist Group, we aspire to be a leading source of information on the status
of elephants across Africa.
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