By Joyce Poole Petter Granli and I left Cottars 1920s Safari Camp on the border of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, the northern extension of the great Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. We were heading toward the Sand River crossing, where elephants ...
By Christy Ullrich National Geographic Elephants are some of nature’s most majestic creatures. But how do scientists know who’s who in the wild? To think like an elephant scientist, it’s important to look at key characteristics, said ...
By Christy Ullrich National Geographic Elephants are some of nature’s most majestic creatures. But how do scientists know who’s who in the wild? To think like an elephant scientist, it’s important to look at key characteristics, said ...
On Friday, February 22, we spent a couple of hours with a teenage male elephant named Little Fellow, in a conservancy outside the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Little Fellow was a good-looking young bull with splayed tusks and ear ...
The conservation charity ElephantVoices has launched a campaign on two powerful pieces of graphic art by New York artist, Asher Jay. The artworks, with the slogans, “Every Tusk Costs a Life; Don’t Buy Ivory” and “Every Tusk Costs a ...
Bathed in moonlight, we lay waiting for the alarm to ring 4:30 a.m., when we would have to drag ourselves out of bed. The Rift Valley was arranged in sharp relief below us, tranquil and magical. A moment of stillness; ...