Author: Claire Bolles

Author: Claire Bolles

Dead Ele in Attacks

A Battlefield Opens Cropland for Elephants to Eat

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Recently Mara Elephant Project’s collared elephants have been taking advantage of a tribe battle that’s as old as time. In the Kirindon area of the Transmara District in Narok County the Maasai and Kalenjin tribes have skirmishes involving spears, arrows and, more recently firearms, which have been occurring with more frequency since the end of 2016. During the most recent battle on December 5, people were killed in the Inkenye area, a favorite battleground owned by a Maasai family but fa… Continue reading.

Elephanatics Supports MEP

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Formed in May 2013, Elephanatics is an elephant advocacy organization residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada with the mission to help the long-term survival of the African and Asian elephants by raising awareness. Disseminating information regarding the enormous challenges and suffering elephants face in Africa’s poaching crisis and Asia’s tourist trade helps them achieve this mission.   They focus on three pillars of advocacy: conservation, education and action. These three pilla… Continue reading.
Elephant Speared

Speared Bull Rescue, Treatment & Death

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On January 19 Mara Elephant Project received a call from the Warden of the Maasai Mara National Reserve (MMNR) to assist him in locating an injured bull elephant that had been reported. MEP CEO flew the Karen Blixen Camp Ree Park Safari Robinson R44 helicopter with the warden as a passenger and searched for 30 minutes looking for the injured elephant. Although the male bull elephant was in the middle of the MMNR, he had come from the Ololoolo Escarpment where there were recent reports of crop… Continue reading.

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