Monthly Trumpet – March 2014

The plight of the African elephants continues, so read what Save the Elephants have to say in their ‘Monthly Trumpet’

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Koitalel
Death of Another Fine Young Bull
The pattern is all too familiar. A burst of gunshots at dusk and a scramble into action by anti-poaching forces to reach the site, on the border of Buffalo Springs National Reserve in Northern Kenya. This time the network was fast and KWS and community rangers reached the elephant before the poachers could take his blood-stained ivory. Our team identified him as a fine 25 year-old male called Koitalel. The loss came at a time when we were cautiously hoping that things were getting better. Across the conservancies of the Northern Rangelands Trust, half as many elephants were killed in 2013 as were lost to poachers in the previous year.

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Finished Ivory
Yao Ming Asks China To Ban Ivory Sales
Yao Ming, ex-NBA basketballer and China’s biggest star, has been a tireless campaigner for elephants ever since visiting STE in Samburu with WildAid. In early March he presented the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference with a petition asking China’s government to ban sales of ivory. Numerous members of China’s business elite were among the signatories, all of them urging their nation to take the leap of leadership necessary to save Africa’s elephants on behalf of the world. Two weeks later, Hong Kong’s largest ivory retailer announcedthat it has stopped selling ivory in response to public opinion against the trade.

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Robert
Yale Beckons STE Intern
When Robert Mwehe finished an internship with STE he set up a successful enterprise to support women who’d lost their crops to elephants. Robert has now won a full scholarship to do a Masters at Yale, and is only a few thousand dollars short of meeting his living expenses for the year. Can you help?

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EWB Plane in Tsavo
Pan African Census
Last month the initial survey of the new Pan-African Census was flown over Tsavo in Kenya by Elephants Without Borders. The count was done using a different technique than that used in February, allowing more light to be shed on the true status of one of Africa’s most important populations. For the results, read on…

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Jerenimo
Jerenimo In The Snow
The Emerging Wildlife Leaders Course in the US helped Jerenimo Leperei become STE’s first Community Outreach officer. His campaign to use ex-poachers to turn criminals into conservationists has achieved great success. Now he’s back to the US to learn more… and to see snow for the first time!

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Elephants & Bees
Bees For Elephants
Elephants warning of a human threat give a different alarm rumble to when worried by bees, new research by STE & Disney has shown. Meanwhile, the opening of our new Elephants & Bees Research centre in Tsavo promises new insights into how elephants and humans can live in harmony.

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