Recently, a large and varied team of wildlife conservation organisations partook in what was Kenya’s first national wildlife census. We, at the Trust were asked to play our own part in this Kenya Wildlife Services’ organised operation. The nation-wide project…

Last month, June of 2021, was the Tsavo Trust’s busiest flying month of this year by quite some distance. In total, our pilots flew a combined 13,364km and spent 107 hours in the air. As per usual, they flew for…

On the 14th of last month, June 2021, Kenya’s Tourism and Wildlife Minister Najib Balala announced the launch of what he described as a “magical Kenya elephant naming festival”. The festival, inspired by the success of Rwanda’s gorilla-naming festival, will…

Here at the Tsavo Trust, we use our Super Cub light aircraft for a large amount of our elephant conservation operations. In the air, we are able to cover large distances and provide essential information to ground teams. Our pilots…

In a recent article on the 3 ways elephant poaching effects the whole ecosystem – which you can access here –, we took a brief look at the evolutionary path of the modern African elephant. The African elephant, recently reclassified…

Recently, the international press have been publishing reports on a huge migratory journey made by 15 Asian elephant who originated from a wildlife reserve in Yunnan province, China. The small herd have drawn international attention for the massive journey –…

The issue of cohabitation between humans and wildlife changes year on year. Kenya, just as is the case in the rest of the world, is constantly developing. We humans do not stand still and, as a result, conservationists are continually…

We hominids have had a recent taste of how a phenomena that is felt species-wide can impact the behavioural patterns we’ve long socialised by. The Covid-19 Coronavirus impacted us all and, in keeping us inside and affecting how we interact…

In last week’s article, we introduced one of our flagship fencing projects that is designed to decrease instance rates for Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC). Within certain Kamungi villages that surround the Tsavo national parks, we are currently trialling what we call…

In our last article, we gave our readers an evaluative insight into how Kenya has so effectively reduced elephant poaching in this country. The written piece was, in many ways, celebratory and, to those involved in bringing it about, congratulatory…