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Family group under Kilimanjaro

Amboseli Trust for Elephants

The Amboseli Elephant Research Project is the longest study of wild elephants in the world. We work to understand the lives and ensure the future of 1,500 elephants in the Amboseli ecosystem fed by the waters of Kilimanjaro.

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Elephant Baby Boom in Amboseli

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Sun, 2008-05-04 08:58 — cmoss
Edwina and her calves

In general in Amboseli calves are born between December and June with a few outliers from July through November. In 2007 only six calves were born in the second half of 2007 with no calves at all born in December which was unusual. It is the third favorite birth month after March and April which have the highest rates.

Echo & Other Elephants DVD

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Tue, 2008-04-01 00:55 — msowers
New Echo DVD

Just received the copy I ordered in the mail today. It's a fantastic collection with all three Echo films and five others. I'm watching "Elephant Nomads of the Namib Desert" now. Amazing to see all those elephants do to survive in those conditions. The DVD is available on Amazon, and I got mine from the Circuit City website, which seemed to be the best price.

Vicky's 1st Quarter 2008

Mon, 2008-03-31 08:41 — hcroze

Vicky's 1st Quarter
Vicky's 1st Quarter

Vicky of the VA family was given a satellite tracking collar in late December last year. Since then, every two hours, we have received a fix of her position, and, of course, that of her very large 52-strong VA family. She has been remarkably sedentary during the period with a couple of notable exceptions.

A week or so after getting her collar, she left the park for a few kilometres to the south, presumably to get a bit of food variety in the bushed and wooded grasslands there. Then, in mid-February, there was a little rain to the northeast, and the VAs moved some 15 km out of the park. Then, over the very wet Easter weekend, when we wanted to show some donors the collar they contributed to, Vicky and her family raced northeast some 25 km to join a concentration of other eles on the rain-soaked plains. Perversely, the day after the disappointed donors departed, Vicky was back in the park, less than 2 km from Ol Tukai.

Lumpy Tusks shot dead as KWS ranger injured

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Wed, 2008-03-19 18:04 — ssayialel
Lumpy Tusks dead surrounded by locals

On 17th March, 2008, I received a phone call from senior warden Amboseli National Park thinking it was one of our routine call on park issues. I was stunned to hear that a KWS ranger was injured by an elephant when on patrol by foot. Luckily he was with his team and they shot the elephant before he was trampled when he fell down. He was rushed to Loitokitok hospital for first aid then later flown to Nairobi. The Amboseli KWS warden Mr. Bakari confirmed that the elephant was shot and killed.

Amboseli's Elephants Featured in The East African

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Mon, 2008-03-17 07:31 — cmoss

Rupi Mangat, an excellent journalist working in Kenya, has published an article on the problems facing Amboseli's elephants. It is on the cover of The East African's magazine section. Rupi interviewed me in Amboseli about 10 days ago.

The East African, 17 March 2008
Amboseli: Dim future for the elephants
By RUPI MANGAT
AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK’S Elephants are probably the world’s most famous. They are not only the longest studied elephants in the wild but also the longest studied wild mammals. Talk about being doubly famous.

Soila made Honorary Warden

Thu, 2008-03-13 06:16 — hcroze
Soila Sayialel, Honorary Warden

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) announced last week that it had made Soila Sayialel an Honourary Warden for Amboseli National Park. Soila is Project Manager for the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP). The announcement is a fitting acknowledgment of the tremendous efforts that Soila and her sister teammates, Norah Njiraini and Katito Sayialel, expend to keep the Park a safe ecosystem core for elephants and other wildlife.

Annual Report 2007

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Sun, 2008-03-02 18:46 — cmoss

(Please see attachment.)

Kenya parties sign accord!

Sun, 2008-03-02 16:47 — hcroze
Signing Ceremony Harvey & Kofi

There is dancing in the streets, literally, in Kisumu and Mombasa. On Thursday, 28 February 2008, President Mwai Kibaki and Hon. (now Prime Minister) Raila Odinga were bearded for more than five hours in Harambee House by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa and current Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete. As a result, they agreed to a power-sharing agreement that was signed that afternoon under the scrutiny of millions of jubilant Kenyans and the world.

Photos of the New EB Calf

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Thu, 2008-02-28 13:40 — cmoss
Elettra with her new calf Elaine, comforting Elettra's new calf

I managed to get some photos of Elettra's calf yesterday when she was three days old. Active and strong, she had some trouble figuring out who her mother was among the 33 other members of the family, but she seems to know what she's doing now. Elettra, at only 12 years old, wasn't sure what she was doing herself but she seems to be getting more and more competent each day. The calf is suckling well. The main allomother is Elaine, Edwina's daughter, and she is seen in one of the photos comforting the calf.

Good News from Amboseli

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Sun, 2008-02-24 12:36 — cmoss

Instead of disturbing or depressing news from Kenya, I actually have some good news to report. This morning I got word from Amboseli that there is a new baby in Echo's family. Elettra, the 12-year-old daughter of Ella (Echo's sister), gave birth to her first calf last night. It's a female and she seems robust and healthy. Martyn Colbeck, the cameraman who is working on the Animal Planet series we are currently filming, was the one who found her and he has been filming her since early this morning.

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