As a conservation not-for-profit organisation based here in Kenya and concerned with protecting African elephant, we consider ourselves privileged whenever our articles mention the words ‘population recovery’. Recently, we took a look across the border to see how elephant conservation…
All of the work that we do here at the Tsavo Trust would not be possible without the incredible support that reaches us. We know that our work is important, that without the conscious and continuous presence of organisations such…
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…
At the beginning of last year, the conservationist community were encouraged to read of signs that the trade in illegal wildlife organic matter was on the decrease. Both the number of ivory, rhino horn and pangolin scale seizures and the…
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…
In 2013, ecologist Allan Savory did a TED talk on rotational grazing as a means to reversing the globe’s grassland desertification. Since then, The Savory Institute has been putting what is considered to be a pioneering practice of holistic farming…
Over the last year, with the results of Kenya’s first national wildlife census offering us inarguable proof, we had the absolute pleasure of reporting on the recovery of Kenya’s elephant population. Prior to the nation-wide census of last year, statistics…
The close of 2021 brought about an end to one of the more tumultuous years in recent human history. For many, the end of 2021 fosters optimism and a desire to realign our future with the trajectory stolen from us…
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…