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Written By: admin on June 18, 2010 No Comment
New Satellite Collared Elephant, “Bemwo”

We had decided to focus on large bulls, as they are becoming a rarity seen in the Chobe water front area. Young bulls and breeding herds are plentiful, but we would like to learn more about the random, larger bulls that occasionally come to the river.

Written By: admin on April 23, 2010 2 Comments
Tragic News, the loss of Kachikau

Kachikau’s death is tragic and sadly unnecessary. The issues surrounding the incident are extremely complex, but they threaten African elephants throughout the continent.

Written By: admin on February 22, 2010 No Comment
EWB Research Field Site Update

…main purpose of the site will be to assess methods and low-cost techniques that work best to reduce elephant crop raiding, train villagers in deterrence methods and productive conservation farming methods, and to motivate community involvement in human-elephant conflict resolution and adopt wildlife conservation practices

Written By: admin on February 8, 2010 2 Comments
International Elephant Conservation and Research Symposium

The program was attended by nearly 90 delegates representing 19 countries from around the world, a diversified range of elephant related vocations from non-profit organizations, zoological organizations, universities and independent entities.

Written By: admin on January 4, 2010 No Comment
New Year’s day in Chobe National Park

Nothing seems better than to relax by taking a casual drive through Chobe National Park… lush and full of vitality, glistening from the combination of rain’s dew and the sun’s rays peeking from building, bellowing clouds…

Written By: admin on December 21, 2009 One Comment
The elephants are moving, and with one surprise!

After long and hesitant stays… the elephants have finally begun to make their seasonal movements

Written By: admin on November 10, 2009 No Comment
Post-monitoring Elephants released in Hwange Nat’l Park, Zimbabwe

It was agreed that the remaining 9 elephants would be translocated and released back into the wild… Elephants Without Borders was approached to offer advice and to discuss the possibility of helping on the post-monitoring program of the herd. EWB suggested that satellite collars

Written By: admin on November 7, 2009 No Comment
Wetlands Wildlife Count in Namibia

We must appreciate and remember that the river systems and adjoining community conservancies are valuable habitats for wildlife.

Written By: admin on October 31, 2009 4 Comments
Goodbye wishes to Elephant Ambassadors…

This season, we were quite busy and took collars off eleven elephants and deployed eight others, in a wide-variety of areas, thus far!

Written By: admin on September 13, 2009 3 Comments
Season of Fires

Southern Africa is burning, areas in Namibia, Zambia, Angola and Botswana are up in flames. The region is now subject to some of the highest levels of biomass burning in the world… our collared elephants moved in relation to the fires.

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