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Satao – the enigma
Alive, Satao was almost unknown; dead, he became legend. How did it happen? A year ago, Satao fell to a poacher’s poisoned arrow in a remote corner of Tsavo East National Park. When news of his death became known … Continue reading
Ndume : the story of an elephant
It reads like environmental pulp fiction: A tribal family’s ancestral forest home is surrounded and cutoff from the main forest by illegal loggers and slash-and-burn farmers. When they eventually break out to try to rejoin the main tribe, they … Continue reading
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Tagged bull, Chota, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Deeble and Stone, elephants, Kenya, Ndume, Sheldrick Trust, The Elephant Movie, Tsavo
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Satao – a legend
When I last wrote about Satao, I felt that I couldn’t use his name. I could refer to him only as a ‘magnificent tusker’ or an ‘iconic Tsavo bull’. I feared that naming him would risk revealing where he lived. … Continue reading
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Tagged David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Deeble and Stone, elephants, ivory, KWS, poaching, Satao, Tsavo, Tsavo Trust, tusker
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Adopted by an elephant
Last evening a lion wandered through camp at dusk – just yards from where we were finishing up work for the day. It skirted the fire, and walked calmly down the path, between the tents and out onto the floodplain … Continue reading
The butterfly and the elephant
Yesterday, in Tsavo, a topi ran across the track in front of me. I smiled, as it suddenly felt like a day in which anything might happen. The topi is an antelope I’d never seen before in Tsavo. I’d … Continue reading
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Tagged African wildlife, biodiversity, butterfly, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, ecology, elephant, Kenya, migration, naturalist, Tsavo, wet season, wildlife filmmaking
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Satao: last of the great tuskers
Ever since we started filming in Tsavo we’d looked for a big tusker – but they are elusive. It’s the reason they are still alive. They are also very rare. They are bulls with tusks so large that they can … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, bull, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, elephants, ivory, Kenya, Kenya Wildlife Service, poaching, Satao, Tsavo, Tsavo Trust, tusker, wildlife filmmaking
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Why we won’t miss elephants once they are gone
I’ve been making wildlife films in East Africa with my partner, Vicky, for 25 years (www.deeblestone.com). Now, together with Etienne Oliff and a small team, we’re making a film about elephants. By the time it is finished, we’ll have devoted … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, African wildlife, Alan Root, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, elephants, ivory, Kenya, poaching, rhinos, Simon Trevor, Tsavo, wildlife filmmaking
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Here today, gone tomorrow
It was late in the day as I drove up to a waterhole. I’d been away from camp for a day or two and had planned a couple of hours in the shade of a henna bush, as the sun … Continue reading
The passing of a giant
Recently, we went on a recce for the film. The destination was a distant waterhole. We set off early. It was a typical Tsavo waterhole – seemingly hewn out of ochre. That warm glow seemed reflected in the animals that, … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, African wildlife, arrow, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, elephants, ivory, Kenya, Kenya Wildlife Service, poaching, poison, Save the Elephants, Tsavo, wildlife filmmaking
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