In July of this year, the five neighbouring countries that contribute lands to the Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area began a first cross-border aerial survey of the region’s elephant. The KAZA conservation area is made up of lands found in…
Recently, we posted an image (this article's title image) to Instagram of one of the iconic cow elephants that we monitor. Many of you reading this will know of Dida. Dida is an awesome creature. She’s a mother and a…
Since we began the writing and dissemination of these weekly news pieces and information bulletins, we’ve had many occasions to talk of the extraordinary wildlife in the Tsavo Conservation Area. Tsavo is home to such a diverse selection of the…
With the vastness of Tsavo as our jurisdiction, in the conservation of African elephant, aircraft are an integral tool in our trade. Here at the Tsavo Trust, we rely heavily on the Super Cub class of aircraft. They are small,…
Our readers could not have failed to have heard about the heatwave presently in existence and affecting much of Europe, North Africa and Central Asia. High temperatures are, in fact, so prevalent in the northern hemisphere this July that they…
It is an interesting development that we human beings have become such a dominant force on this planet that nearly all of the earth’s plant and animal matter are dependent on our actions if they are to continue existing as…
We humans have arrived at a point in our developmental history in which we have now to pump the brakes. We are forced to promote stops to our previously unfettered endeavour. If we want to see, tomorrow, a world that…
We recently had the occasion to write an article exploring the question of whether elephant, and other great plains grazers, might be essential to savannah grassland’s ability to sequester carbon. Grasslands are effective carbon sinks. The soil beneath them is…
Scanning the news for mention of elephant this week opens one’s eyes to a diverse selection of stories. Some are good news pieces, others less so. Elements of each should serve to complicate our understanding of this incredible species which,…
Charles Darwin posited that evolution happened over grand, geological timescales; the periods of time that make human existence, let alone lives, seem a blink of a planetary eye. But, of course, even over human lifetimes we have been able to…