Domestication can have a very simple definition: one of those definitions so simple, it’s hard to put into words; it just is. Cats are domesticated, dogs are. Domesticated creatures are cute, friendly – not always, maybe, in the case of…

African savannah elephant, and their present ‘endangered’ conservation status, faces myriad threats. Here in Kenya, where the history of wildlife conservation is longer and more storied than many other African countries, we have spent many years coming to terms with…

For the interested, there is plenty that can be considered when we look at the earth’s largest land mammal. All of this earth’s plant and animal life have their own unique adaptive qualities that make the study of them interesting…

With our last article, we publicised the fact that, once again, Kenya has an authoritative document governing the nation’s response to elephant conservation. The old Elephant Conservation & Management plan ran between 2012 and 2021. Thereafter, we were without a…

World Wildlife Day celebrations strengthen links between tourism and conservation Earlier this month, on the 3rd of March, Kenya celebrated World Wildlife Day with what has become an annual celebration. Since 2021, this country has used this day – earmarked…

The Voi river provides 210 kilometres of riverway with the essential life-giving sustenance that, in this part of the world, is sorely needed. The river originates in the Taita Taveta hills, it flows past the town at Voi and then…

In a move that won’t seem so bold to Kenyans, Sri Lanka’s government has banned the sale of single-use plastics. In Sri Lanka, where the Asian elephant is considered sacred by many of the nation’s population, plastic poisoning was found…

Recently unearthed evidence suggests that species of the homo genus have been hunting elephantine species since as long ago as 125,000 years in the past. Evidence of tool markings on the fossilised remains of a straight-tusked elephant, or palaeoloxodon antiquus,…

The world has seen many (in)famous elephant. As companions to some of human history’s best-known kings and queens, they’re memories live on as emblems of royal reach. As instruments of war, they were terror-inspiring and, it would eventually prove, havoc-inducingly…

A few months ago, we informed our regular readership of the important role African savannah elephant play in the maintenance of grasslands. Within the grassland ecosystem, elephant are a keystone species. That means there presence in it is essential to…