The African savannah elephant is categorised as Endangered on the IUCN’s Red-List of Threatened Species. This means that, globally, the species is on a year-on-year decline. Africa-wide, the threats to these creatures are largely unchanged over the last forty years…
Conservationists in Kenya have often found reason to bemoan the country’s shared border with Tanzania. In the past, the fact that great energies and funding was put to the protection of animals in Kenya was undermined by a less than…
Last month witnessed the 134th anniversary to the conception of the National Geographic Society. Today, the organisation is a household name. Under the umbrella of National Geographic, it’s various operating identities have become leading tools for education, disseminators of useful…
The Tsavo Trust is a wildlife conservation non-profit organisation. We use the resources given to us to pursue the protection of all wildlife that it is within our capability to pursue. However, we do have a very specific, self-appointed aim…
The Tsavo Conservation Area, here in Kenya, is comprised of Tsavo East and West national parks, the Chyulu Hills national park, the South Kitui national reserve, and all the lands in between. It even stretches south and across the border…
In July of 1989, Kenya’s then-President, Daniel Arap Moi, symbolically set light to the Kenya Wildlife Service’s 12 tonne stockpile of seized ivory. This would be the first of five such ivory-destruction events in Kenyan history. Paul Udoto, then a…
Between 55 and 60 million years ago, in the Miocene epoch, a small pig-like creature – 70cm at the shoulder and not unalike the modern-day tapir – roamed the earth. The Moeritherium is the long-forgotten ancestor of today’s elephant. The…
In 2020, surveyors for the Kenyan Tourism Ministry found an incredible result for elephant conservations in their battle against poaching in this country. Over the previous two years, Kenya, as a whole, saw a 91% decrease in elephant poaching. In…
According to data collected by the WWF, just under 100 years ago there were over 10 million African elephants. Whilst in Asia, there were over 100,000 of the smaller, Asian elephants. The numbers today are upsettingly low. According to our…
The ‘red-list’ is a regularly updated review of the globe’s most at-risk species. It is conducted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. After recent reconsideration on the merits and scientific precedent for reclassifying the African elephant into…