The Ropile River Elephant Corridor

The approach of the New Year is a time of reflection for many and our team at Elephant Aware would like to take this opportunity to share some amazing news with you as we look back on some of our project achievements this past year. For more than a decade it has been a dream […]

Elephant Aware 2022 End Of Year Report

The year started off very dry after months of severe drought but the area got a lot of rain in early January which helped tremendously to refill water sources and brought much relief to elephants, all wildlife and people as well as community livestock within this part of the ecosystem. In a short few weeks […]

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TUSKLESS AND BEAUTIFUL! 

Have you  heard the famous quote by Thomas Schmidt, “No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant?”   Here’s why! Elephant tusks are enormous front teeth that keep growing throughout an elephant’s life. Apart from lifting things and being a tool for defense, elephants use their tusks to strip the bark off trees, […]

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THE POWER OF A RUMBLE

Former STE intern, Meha Kumar, shares one of her special encounters with elephants in Samburu National Reserve and gives us a glimpse into some of the discoveries she made during her internship. There they were, the Hardwoods family, a group of 43 elephants in the shallow waters of the Ewaso Nyiro river, cooling off, mucking […]

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THE DEEPENING IMPACTS OF KENYA’S DROUGHT

These past few months have been tough for people and wildlife alike as Kenya continues to grapple with the effects of yet another prolonged drought that has ravaged parts of the country.  In northern Kenya, where our research camp is based, the wild animals are scrambling for food in a landscape that resembles a desert […]

Elephant Aware April-June 2022 Field Report

At the beginning of April the area was starting to dry out and the number of water sources available to wildlife were dwindling. This meant that conflict cases were on the rise because competition for pasture and water between wildlife and people had increased enormously. Migratory species such as elephants, giraffes, zebras and others have […]

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Elephant Aware 2020 Third Quarter Operational Report

Between early July and the end of September the Elephant Aware team responded to more than twenty Human-Wildlife conflict incidents with the majority occurring in the early part of this quarter and in every case prevented the situation from escalating. Each case was set under different circumstances and so a unique approach to each situation […]