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 | November 30, 2000:
AMBOSELI ELEPHANT RESEARCH PROJECT
November 2000 Report
Cynthia Moss
I flew up from Amboseli this morning after a week at my
camp in the park. It was a good
stay. Things have improved dramatically since my last report.
We finally started to get some rain in the third week of November.
The rains were definitely late and so far they haven’t been
wonderfully generous (we’ve recorded three to four inches in the camp rain
gauge), but it’s been enough to turn the plains green and to start the
grass growing ...
The one thing that hasn’t improved is the situation with our vehicles.
The researchers are still only operating with one car, an old Isuzu
Trooper loaned to us by AWF. My
poor, old blue Land-Rover is off the road once more.
Luckily, I was able to borrow colleague Joyce Poole’s Toyota
Landcruiser during the time I was there.
Otherwise I would have been stuck in camp.
A number of well-wishers are working hard to try to help us get one
or two new vehicles, but it seems to be a long process and we’re still
short of the necessary funds. In the meantime, we will try to get the old
Land-Rover working again... (photos
and complete story) |
| November 11, 2000:
Cynthia Moss Visiting San Francisco |
| November 11, 2000:
Cynthia Moss, director of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in
Kenya, and author of Echo of the Elephants and Elephant Memories,
participated at the "Animal Emotions: Passionate Natures" seminar
at the Smithsonian Institute in October, 2000. For a
few photos and the seminar synopsis. |
| October 17, 2000:
AMBOSELI ELEPHANT RESEARCH PROJECT
October 2000 Report and an Urgent Plea for Help
Cynthia Moss |
| October 14, 2000:
From animal channel.net ( http://www.hsus.org/channel/citeswatch/
)
There is a 3.37 seconds of RealVideo video clip of a story about Amboseli
Elephant Research Project, including a very good interview with Soila Sayialel,
the AERP project manager.
If you don't have RealPlayer: Go the free Basic version here 
Click here for the video ( http://stream.realimpact.net/?file=realimpact/hsus/cites/cites_amboseli.rm
) |
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October 13, 2000:
New links added to the Resource page:
Born Free Foundation ( http://www.bornfree.org.uk/
)
The Born Free Foundation is an international wildlife charity working with
compassion to prevent cruelty, alleviate suffering and encourage everyone to
treat all individual animals with respect.
 | The Elefriends Project (http://www.bornfree.org.uk/ele10.htm
)
The Elefriends Project is part of the Born Free Foundation’s
‘Magnificent 7’ … seven international Projects devoted to caring
for individual animals and conserving their species in the wild.
Elefriends is dedicated to caring for African and Asian elephants, both
in the wild and in captivity. |
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| Cynthia Moss's Report from Amboseli (September,
2000) |
| Lewa Retreat (Kenya; September, 2000) |
| Echo's New Calf (Amboseli, Kenya; August, 2000) |
| Lugwig seeks support for conservation projects (Los
Angeles, California; June, 2000). |
| Two Special Events at the Oakland Zoo (Oakland,
California; May 18, May 20, 2000) |
| Elephant expert working at UCSB (Santa Barbara,
California; May 15, 2000) |
| An Evening with Cynthia Moss at Wilshire Country Club
(Los Angeles, California; May 1, 2000) |
| Cynthia Moss Visits L.A. Zoo; April 30, 2000) |
| Time Magazine Honors Cynthia Moss for Being a Hero
of the Planet (Feb 28, 2000) |
| Lugwig seeks
support for conservation projects
Larchmont Chronicle, Los Angeles
Jane Gilman
June, 2000
Bruce Ludwig's neighbors are elephants. Not in Hancock Park, where he and his
wife Carolyn live, but on the Kenya ranch they own adjacent to the Amboseli
National Park. The 300,000-acre ranch is home to 3,800 Masai families and herds
of elephants who roam undisturbed. ... for the full
article
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Celebrating Elephants
Two Special Events at The Oakland Zoo (http://www.oaklandzoo.org/),
California
in support of Cynthia Moss
Amboseli Elephant Research Project ... for the
full article |
| Elephant expert
working at UCSB
Researcher Cynthia Moss is accustomed to sitting in her beat-up Land
Rover following families of elephants across the African savanna, but over
the last few weeks she has been in Santa Barbara sitting at a computer
crunching numbers.
The world-renowned elephant expert is in town for a few more days using
the computers and computer expertise at UCSB's National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) to compile the data she and other
researchers in Kenya's Amboseli National Park have collected on a band of
1,100 elephants over 30 years. ... for the full
article |
| An Evening with Cynthia Moss at Wilshire Country Club
Cynthia Moss explains Amboseli Elephants and the importance of creating a lasting
legacy with the Amboseli Trust for Elephants
On May 1, 2000 Cynthia Moss visited the Wilshire Country Club in Los Angeles
to give a very informative and interesting slide show about the lives of
Amboseli Elephants. ... for a photo journal of the
event
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Cynthia Moss Visits L.A. Zoo
East Meets West: Gita the Asian Elephant Meets African Elephant
Researcher ... for two pictures
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| Kenya's
Elephant Team
You Might Not Buy Ivory If You Saw This Family
Time Magazine
BY SIMON ROBINSON | AMBOSELI
February 28, 2000
Parked on a grassy bank
in her 15-year-old, blue-green Land Rover, elephant researcher Cynthia Moss
peers through her binoculars at a group of females and calves 200 ft. in
front of us. It is late afternoon, and Moss and I have driven from her camp
in Kenya's Amboseli National Park to the eastern edge of nearby Longinye
swamp. Our job: to count and identify the elephants as observers in an
airplane estimate numbers from above. Behind us, across the border in
Tanzania, looms the hulking mass of Africa's highest peak, Mount
Kilimanjaro, its snow-capped dome giving way to gently sloping flanks that
shimmer blue in the dying light. Crumpled along the horizon to the west and
east are distant smaller mountains: Chyulu, Ol Dionyo Orok and Longido. To
the north is nothing but huge sky and endless plain. ...
for the full article |
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