Save the Elephants
@ste_kenya
Followers
82K
Following
2K
Media
2K
Statuses
5K
Our mission is to secure a future for elephants and to sustain the beauty and ecological integrity of the places that they live.
Kenya
Joined August 2009
📣 Back by popular demand! Meet the new Greatest Roamers of All Time (GROATs) - elephants whose epic journeys, tracked via STE WildTracks, show how they navigate Kenya’s wild landscapes. 🌳🗻 🔗 Dive into part two of our GROAT series: https://t.co/cPBgNIzFxi
0
8
48
Our @ElephantCrisis is hard at work protecting elephants across Africa. 🌍🐘 Four new grants - totalling US$290,000 - were recently awarded, strengthening coexistence efforts, supporting law enforcement, and tackling illegal wildlife trade.
elephantcrisisfund.org
We’re excited to announce four newly awarded grants from the Elephant Crisis Fund. In Kenya, an ECF-funded beehive fence trial on farms near Mt. Elgon Forest Reserve has been transformative, reducing...
0
6
32
Our third Conservation Careers Symposium took place yesterday at @KenyattaUni, bringing together 13 other conservation organisations and 200+ students to sharpen skills, explore career paths and building connections for the next generation of conservationists. 📸 STE / KU
0
0
14
Double the joy for Kenya’s elephants! 🐘🐘 We’re thrilled about the rare twin calves born in Amboseli - and, in perfect timing, Alto and her own miracle twins (born in 2023) were just spotted in Samburu for the first time in months - a true symbol of hope. 💛 📸 Gilbert Sabinga
5
71
464
Save the Elephants is accepting applications for its 2026 Samburu Research Internship Programme. Open to Kenyan students in wildlife and environmental fields (with prior fieldwork experience). 👉 Apply here by Dec 31, 2025 - https://t.co/RuIBUsaIbO 📸 @robbielab / STE
0
42
226
Elephants are fast learners! Within months, they adapt to new underpasses that help them cross safely between habitats. In 2011, bulls Tony & his friend (pictured) used Kenya's Nanyuki underpass linking Lewa & Mt. Kenya Forest - guided by a few piles of dung! 📸 Jason Straziuso
3
89
462
Healthy people, healthy wildlife, healthy planet. 💚 This World One Health Day, discover how our One Health approach in Sagalla, Tsavo, is helping communities and elephants coexist: https://t.co/X9CirPz5Mj 📸 Belinda Omollo
0
3
14
We’re saddened by the loss of Kawaap, a bull who died after falling into a well while seeking water in South Horr. He was a trailblazer who trekked 30 miles to Mt. Kulal, the farthest north of any of our tracked elephants. A brave bull, gone too soon. 💔 📸 Angus Carey-Douglas
17
41
220
Samburu is drying up and elephants are adapting. With her newborn and 7 year-old daughter close by, 23 year-old Aminatu, from the Royals family, feeds on an acacia tree branch, showing us just how resourceful elephants are when food gets scarce. 📽️ Gideon Galimogle
3
87
590
The Royals herd crossing the Ewaso Nyiro river in a loose, beautiful file of elephants of all sizes and ages.🤩 📽️ Gideon Galimogle
9
95
731
Our researchers in Samburu got quite the show. Five minutes of full-body scratching from one very itchy elephant! Forehead, sides, and even his bum! 😅 📽️ Purity Milgo
4
57
414
Did you know that older elephant calves sometimes lie or kneel down to invite younger ones to play? This play often ends up in joyful heaps of tiny trunks and feet! 😍 📸 Robbie Labanowski
2
61
483
We’re honoured to feature in ROAM, a new book by award-winning science journalist @hillaryrosner, which explores how reconnecting landscapes can help wildlife and people thrive. Read more on @mongabay: https://t.co/JdO4pa6F6a 📸 @patagoniabooks, Frank af Petersens, @janewynyard
0
2
17
Our ‘A Life Among Elephants’ tour has come to a close and our hearts are full. ❤️ Here are the highlights from our final screening in New York City on Wednesday. Missed it? Stream now on Curiosity Stream: https://t.co/prgNhJOHH4 Until next time! 🤗 📸 Grace Boak
0
2
15
New York City, it’s your turn! Join us today at the DGA Theatre as this leg of our ‘A Life Among Elephants’ US tour comes to a close. Celebrate Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton’s incredible six-decade legacy in elephant conservation with us! 🎟️ Tickets: https://t.co/ZXslsNpyVr
0
0
21
From Indianapolis to Chicago to L.A., what an incredible journey it’s been sharing the award-winning film ‘A Life Among Elephants’! ❤️ Now we’re wrapping it up in New York City this Wed, Oct 15 at the DGA Theatre. See you soon, NYC! 🗽 🎟️ Tickets: https://t.co/ZXslsNpyVr
0
4
14
‘A Life Among Elephants’ lit up the Fine Arts Theatre with big smiles, good vibes and so much love for Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton’s conservation legacy. Huge thanks to everyone who came out! Final stop is NYC on Oct 15 at the DGA Theatre. 🎟️ Tickets: https://t.co/ZXslsNpyVr
0
2
17
Save the Elephants is teaming up with viral science communicator and content creator, Lindsay Nikole, to find four creative volunteer video editors to craft long-form YouTube content that educates and inspires. 🐘 👉 Details: https://t.co/7dxb7WNSQ0 📷 @janewynyard
0
9
35
It’s here! 😃 Science communicator and content creator Lindsay Nikole heads to Samburu, Kenya, to meet our team and uncover the science behind saving elephants in her brand-new documentary on Save the Elephants. 🐘 👉 Watch now: https://t.co/YJTvpKst0j
0
5
24
Elephant ‘vending machine’: fully stocked and dispensing a steady stream of elephants of all sizes. 🌿🐘🌿 📽️ @janewynyard
3
50
463