The month of July started off with our usual routine of monitoring the various different elephant herds in the area at the time. The rangers of Elephant Aware cover many kilometres on their daily foot patrols through vastly different terrains, from riverine woodland, open plains, to the top of some very big hill ranges. On […]
In the month of June there was a lot of elephant activity in the area which kept our team very busy. Aside from seeing a lot of interesting elephant behaviour, the Elephant Aware ranger team also averted numerous Human-Elephant-Conflict (HEC) incidents. On the 4th of June two elephants who had been monitored with the help […]
The month of May has been busy for our team at Elephant Aware. In the area where we work people and elephants are close neighbours and encounters between the two are a daily occurrence. Quite often these encounters can result in Human-Elephant-Conflict and the rangers of Elephant Aware frequently act as the ‘thin-green-line’ trying constantly to […]
On the 27th of Janurary 2018 this collared bull elephant, Lempiris, was successfully treated for an infected arrow wound. It wasn’t an easy task and was only made possible thanks to the amazing effort from all concerned. As always, the Mara Vet Unit did a fantastic job responding and rushing to the aid of another Mara […]
I don’t think there are many wildlife rangers out there who look after a sub-adult Eland when they are not watching over wild elephants. My name is Ntaiya and I am an Elephant Aware ranger but I am also Siriwe’s keeper. Let me tell you a little bit about her… The Common Eland (Tragelaphus oryx) […]
We have been kept very busy lately keeping up with elephants! There is a large aggregation that my unit and myself are monitoring constantly and we have to keep on our toes to do so. Ranger Leposa has been away from work for a while as he has had many problems with his cattle because […]
There have been recent events amidst the battle to rescue the African Elephant from their plight that could be labeled as triumphs. Richard Leakey has returned to the forefront of elephant conservation and considering his previous success in bringing the elephant poaching in Kenya to a halt in the late 1980s, this gives great hope […]
Why should a nation that is, in many areas, affected by hunger, poverty, high unemployment and loss of life, care about their environment, let alone their wildlife? Well, the Elephant Aware rangers, a group of Kenyans committed to saving their wildlife, have a few reasons in mind that they would like to remind their fellow […]
The African elephant population stood at approximately 1.3 million in 37 range states in 1979. By 1989 the population tiltered on 600,000, such a tremendous drop in numbers made the situation glaringly clear. At this time it was estimated that as many as 75,000 elephants were being slaughtered every year to feed the ivory demand […]
We cannot believe that it was a year ago today that Lenana was brutally murdered. During the time we spent caring for him, we grew to know him, to love him and to understand him. We, everyone in our team, really did consider him to be a close friend, someone we could not imagine our […]
