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A Letter from Our FounderOur MissionEast Africa, the elephant census of the SelousNational Park in December 2013 indicateda shocking 67 per cent reduction in just fouryears. According to TRAFFIC the flow ofillegal ivory has reached all time high. Ivoryprices in China tripled between 2010 and 2014,increasing incentives for organised crime andultimately poachers.To secure a future for elephants and sustain thebeauty and ecological integrity of the places theylive, to promote man’s delight in their intelligenceand the diversity of their world, and to develop atolerant relationship between the two species.Our recent analysis suggests that100,000 elephants were killed overthe three years 2010 to 2012, an astonishingnumber given an estimated African populationof possibly 500,000. The figure was derivedfrom modelling that drew partly from ourintensive monitoring of known elephants inSamburu, combined with the ongoing bodycount of the Monitoring of Illegal Killing ofElephants (MIKE) project. The study indicatedthat the continental population was in declinein those years.Other data indicate a slackening of theonslaught. In Samburu births once againreplace deaths and the decline of the elephantpopulation has levelled off. While NorthernKenya’s intensive, collaborative enforcementefforts and strong community-led conservationis rare elsewhere in Africa, at least in Kenya thesituation is not so dire as it was three years ago.Could Samburu once again be the harbingerfor Africa and forecast better times ahead forelephants? It is too early to tell. While thesituation is improving in some savannahs ofFront cover and opposite page photos by Sean Dundas.Apart from a few bright spots where moreecoguards have been deployed, the news fromCentral Africa is unremittingly bad. Never hasthere been such a storm of opposing forces,organized crime, loose weapons, high incentivesto kill and trade for ivory, and in manycountries inadequate responses, and a lack ofpolitical will.So the struggle goes on. The warm response toour Elephant Crisis Fund, launched jointly withour partners Wildlife Conservation Network,allows us to play our role in forging the grandalliance of concerned world citizens, NGOs,activists, scientists, politicians, institutions andgovernments needed to stop the killing, stop thetrafficking and stop the demand for ivory.The battle is far from over and there will bea hard struggle ahead, but it is the end of thebeginning. We can have cautious hope that ifthe world remains concerned, with many allies,we can secure a future for some of Africa’selephants.Dr Iain Douglas-HamiltonFounder and CEO“China has advocated harmony between man and nature,and believe that mankind and animals and plants are partof the nature. To protect the wildlife is to protect thehomeland of mankind, and also human civilizations.”Vice Premier Liu, of China.

A Letter from Our Chairmanleadership – in science as in conservation - isinclusive and aims to reach out, collaborateand share rather than exclude and monopolise.Again our elephants had a bad yearof being killed or maimed withpoaching at levels that are unsustainable forall concerned: animals, hunters, traders andbuyers. The latest research publication out ofSave the Elephants (STE) estimates that we willhave lost all wild roaming elephants in Africabefore a hundred years have past - unlesssomething changes. This most important ofour studies this year analysed data from acrossAfrica and concluded that death exceeds birthby several percent, which translates into anaccelerated declining elephant population.The importance of this finding is self-evident.And the huge effort of all collaborators in thisstudy cannot be over-stressed – and nor can theimportance of Iain’s support of fundamentalresearch at STE. Beyond the scientific teamitself, the intellectual environment and attitudeis key. Here STE is outstanding amongconservation charities, I believe. At heart Iain isa dyed-in-the-wool scientist who understands,appreciates, encourages and facilitatesfundamental research. Most importantly hisThe impressive team that worked on “Illegalkilling for ivory drives global decline inAfrican elephants” comprised, in additionto Iain, professors and students of ColoradoState University, senior scientists of the KenyaWildlife Service and the Convention onInternational Trade in Endangered Species.And, as always over the last decade, Iain wasmost ably supported by Assistant ProfessorGeorge Wittemeyer, lead author on the paperand Chairman of our authoritative scientificadvisory committee.While research informs our strategy, it is onlyone element in Iain’s daily schedule. Thisyear Iain and his team were spectacularlysuccessful in raising and effectively disbursingover $3 million for the Elephant Crisis Fund.Supporters and friends like those who gaveboth this year and previously make me hopefulthat the current elephant crisis may be stoppedfrom developing into a catastrophe. And Ithink we can all agree that Iain’s leadership willcontinue to be a key contribution.In this spirit, all the best wishes for the yearaheadProfessor Fritz VollrathChairmanwww.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS 05Sean Dundas Photography

Elephant Crisis FundGabon is home to over halfof the surviving forestelephants but is underincreasing pressure.Minkebe National Parklost an estimated 11,000elephants in the lastdecade. In order toprotect nearby IvindoNational Park from thesame fate, the ECF hassupported Parcs Gabonto establish professionalintelligence networks andsmart anti-poaching patrols.anti-poachingThe front line of the Battle for theElephants is where poachers - sometimesarmed with sophisticated military equipment,sometimes with poisoned arrows andspears - meet the forces of wildlifedefence.Effective law-enforcement increasesthe risk to poachers of gettingcaught, creating a crucial deterrentto being involved with the ivorytrade. Alongside anti-traffickingwork to break up the organised crimenetworks behind the smuggling andeffective actions aimed at ending the demandanti-poaching for ivory, anti-poaching operationsprojects make ivory are crucial to stemming the flow ofblood ivory out of Africa.poachers reconsiderthe risks With WCN’s efficient support,the Elephant Crisis Fund (ECF)is leveraging STE’s five decades ofexperience of on-the-ground experience inAfrica to act on the most urgent priorities with the mosteffective partners in order to protect elephants both in theforests and on the savannahs.Defending the last forest elephant strongholdsforest elephants haveborne the brunt of theivory crisis. 65% of theirpopulation were killed fortheir tusks between 2002and 2013.The Congo Basin’s largestsurviving elephant populationis found in the TRIDOMtransborder forest betweenCongo, Gabon andCameroon. Boumba Bek& Nki National Parks inSoutheast Cameroon areremote enough to haveescaped the worst of theivory poaching but newaccess roads have createdan alarming threat. Whena funding shift by USAIDcreated serious gap in antipoachingfinance the ECF jumpedin to support WWF in their defence of these forestelephant strongholds.In the Central African Republic, the ECF’s rapidresponse to a rebel incursion of Dzangha Bai paidoff, with no more poaching incidents reported inthe Bai thanks to the intervention of the WildlifeConservation Society and partners.Securing the savannahsEthiopia’s Babile Elephant Sactuary lies close to the Somaliborder. Ivory poachers were driving the population to the edge of extinctionuntil the ECF partnered with Born Free to fund the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority tore-equip anti-poaching forces there. With one of the most notorious poachers already behind bars,and effective patrolling in place, morale is now high.Niassa National Park in Mozambique is one of Africa’s largest protected areas and one of themost important elephant populations, but ivory poaching is rife. Effective patrolling over thishuge area is crucial, so the ECF has put its weight behind the Wildlife Conservation Society toimplement aerial patrolling and SMART ranger management.Kenya’s Tsavo Conservation Area is also huge and largely roadless. The ECF’s catalytic supportof the Tsavo Trust to defend this, Kenya’s largest elephant population and home of most of thecountry’s remaining Great Tuskers, has paid dividends. Tightly integrated with the work of theKenya Wildlife Service, the Tsavo Trust has tightened the web of security in the region through anew ground patrol unit with vehicle and keeping an aircraft patrol in the sky.high tech toolsand old-fashionedcollaborationcombined provideeffective protection05 06 www.savetheelephants.org07

Elephant Crisis Fundanti-traffickingLack of adequate law enforcement, poor prosecutions and lenient sentencing are allowingorganised crime to grow rich on profits from the ivory trade. Well-connected traffickers andcorrupt politicians remain free while low-level poachers and smugglers take the heat. Meanwhileacross Africa international borders are too porous to prevent the flow of ivory. Sniffer dogs are apowerful tool for detecting ivory but even when available are often not effectively deployed.The poor legal environment for ivory crime prosecution was laid bare by an ECF-fundedinvestigation in Kenya by Wildlife Direct which revealed that in 2013 only four per cent ofoffenders convicted for wildlife crime went to jail. In cases against elephants and rhinos, seven percent were jailed and maximum fines for ivory possession were only $350. The hard-hitting reportwas widely circulated, and two days after the report was delivered to the president he signedinto law a new Wildlife and Conservation Act, increasing maximum penalties to $225,000, lifeimprisonment, or both. Soon after, a Chinese trafficker trying to leave Kenya with ivory was giventhe maximum fine and sentenced to seven years in prison.To address poor process in preparing cases the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions inKenya established a Wildlife Crime Team. The ECF has funded work to help magistrates andjustices understand the gravity of poaching and its effects on local communities, and supportsWildlife Direct in keeping eyes on every ivory case in Kenya’s courtrooms.To lay the foundations for impactful work with sniffer dogs, the ECF has funded Working Dogsfor Conservation to conduct a review of sniffer dog use across Africa to establish how support canbest be leveraged.Elsewhere on the continent, the ECF is financing work to expose and oust the kingpins behind theivory trade.increasinglyorganised crimehas turned to theivory trade, lured byfat profits and laxenforcement.08www.savetheelephants.org09 08

Elephant Crisis Fundthe destruction ofivory stockpiles - likethis one in the unitedstates - is an importantstep to ending the ivorytradedemand reductionWithout a dramatic reduction in the demand for ivory the price will continue to rise,increasing incentives to poach and traffic elephant tusks. The price of raw ivory in Chinahas tripled in four years, according to research by Esmond Martin & Lucy Vigne supported by theECF; in May 2014 the average retail price of raw ivory in China was $2,100 per kg.Efforts to share awareness with everyone in China on ivory may take too long for Africa’selephants. Besides, according to some sources less than 1 per cent of China’s population isinvolved in buying ivory, making campaigns hard to target. STE’s Resson Kantai visited Chinaas part of a delegation to build bridges between China and Africa, organised by Chineseconservationist Yufang Gao. Resson returned full of hope and plans to focus advocacy efforts onthe few who are buying ivory and pushing Africa’s elephants to the brink.The ECF continues to provide major support to WildAid’s demand reduction programme, whichlast year aired 7,697 public service announcements amounting to at least $15m of pro bonobroadcast value. Campaign leader, Yao Ming, delivered a petition to the Chinese People’s PoliticalConsultative Conference asking China’s government to ban sales of ivory. Signatories included abroad spectrum of political and business heavyweights.We are also funding the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to conduct acomplementary, policy-focussed campaign to reach Key Opinion Leaders, and supporting theNatural Resource Defence Council (NRDC) to prepare the legal ground for ending China’sdomestic ivory trade.Other national ivory markets, although currently dwarfed by China’s demographic and economicmight, also pose significant threats to Africa’s dwindling elephant populations. Hong Kong mayprovide a critical testing ground for a domestic ivory ban, and we are supporting WildAid’sinitiatives there. In September 2014 STE hosted Hong Kong legislator Elizabeth Quat, who isproposing new laws to ban ivory in the region.African nations holding naturally-accrued ivory stockpiles have an interest in selling their ivory,but doing so would fuel demand. STE is working closely with Stop Ivory, a major initiative thatseeks to prevent ivory entering commercial supply chains. Symbolic ivory destructions by Gabon,the US, China, France, Chad and Belgium have all contributed to momentum on this issue.09 10www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE A FOR FOR ELEPHANTS10

Researchthe importance of counting elephantsaerialcensuses arekey to establishingthe true status ofafrica’s savannahelephantsmonitoring the illegal killing of elephantssIn the midst of the ivory poaching crisis, sensitiveindicators of poaching pressure are critical foridentifying the populations across the continent thatare most at risk.Over 100,000 elephants were killed fortheir ivory between 2010 and 2012 accordingto new research led by George Wittemyer,chairman of STE’s Scientific AdvisoryBoard. The broad coalition of researchers heassembled drew on data and experience fromintensively monitored sites across Africa,including Samburu.Speculation about the number of elephantsbeing lost has been rampant, but this studyprovides an important, peer-reviewed estimate ofthe impacts of the ongoing ivory crisis on Africa’selephant populations. The number of elephants remainingin Africa is uncertain, but the losses drove declines in theworld’s wild African elephants in the order of 2-3% a year during those three years. Preliminarydata indicates unsustainable poaching continued during 2013.Accurate data on elephant populations and trends are crucial to conservation decision-making,but counting elephants is harder than it might seem. Good census work is therefore acornerstone of securing a future for elephants. Results from Central Africa indicated that forestelephants had suffered a decline of 62 per cent, then a survey in late 2013 that STE helped planrevealed that what was once Africa’s second-largest population, Selous National Park in Tanzania,had lost 67 per cent in just four years.In early 2014, a new Pan African Elephant Census, led by Mike Chase of Elephants WithoutBorders, began in Kenya with STE’s assistance. The last such continental survey was conducted bySTE Founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton in 1976. The first operation in this new census took place inTsavo shortly after the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) had completed a count using a different andcomplimentary technique. The total count by KWS established a minimum estimated populationof 11,076 elephants (down 1,500 on the 2011 estimate) while the sample count by the PanAfrican census estimated a probably population of 14,000, plus or minus 3,000.Iain is on the steering group of the African Elephant Database and STE is committed to continuingto improve the quality and accessibility of continental data on elephant populations.The Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) programme has served as the most sensitivebarometer of poaching pressure since 2001, receiving data from 42 sample sites Africa-wide.Data from the Samburu-Laikipia MIKE site in Northern Kenya shows that illegal killing peakedin 2012. That year 73 per cent of carcasses found had been illegally killed, while by 2013 theProportion of Illegally Killed Elephants (PIKE) had fallen for the first time since the ivory crisisbegan in 2008, reducing to 62 per cent (see graph).Although thesituation appearsto be improvingin Samburu, thetotal elephantpopulations ofboth East andCentral Africa arenow registeringdeclines alongwith manypopulations in theSouth.11 www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS12

Researchhigh tech elephant defenceAthe rising price of ivory continues to fuel poaching and increasing human developmentencroaches on elephant rangelands, elephants are facing severe short-term and long-termchallenges to their survival.Save the Elephants is at the cutting edge of a new, high-tech form of elephant protection that isalready helping to transform the fortunes of elephants in Kenya’s northern rangelands. Powerfulnew GPS tracking collars and software feeds real-time movement data into a regional Commandand Control centre to guide rangers and alert them to incidents.The concept has been pioneered in collaboration with the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT)where it has proved an indispensable tool for security managers in countering poaching. We arenow moving to establish similar systems to help protect other important elephant populationsacross Africa.In the next year 40 new elephants are to be tracked across Kenya’s Northern Rangelands. Thework, which is only possible thanks to a grant from The Nature Conservancy and our ongoingalliance with the Kenya Wildlife Service and NRT, will not only boost the flow of critical securitydata but also provide detailed information for county-level and national planning authorities.Oil pipelines, large-scale dams, railways, highways and even new cities are all developmentsthat are planned for the Samburu region. None of them need sever the corridors that elephantsneed to survive, but without data for proper planning their impacts on this population could becatastrophic.ste’s gpstrackingtechnology is provinga critical tool indefending elephantsfrom poachersSean Dundas Photography14 13www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS15 14

Researchcold war bombs date and locate ivoryOne of the major obstacles toenforcing the law when itcomes to vory isthe lack of a reliable way ofdistinguishing betweenlegal pre-1989 ivory andillegal post-ban ivory.This yearresearchersfrom Save theElephantsjoined thosefrom ColombiaUniversity,the Universityof Arizona,and the KenyaWildlife Serviceto publish thefinding that ColdWar radioactivitycan be used to dateelephant tusks. Thework is expected to makeit easier to enforce bans onthe ivory trade.elephant alarm calls revealed!After eight years of study in Samburu we have discovered thatnot only do elephants have a unique alarm call in responseto the threat of bees, but they also use a different alarm callwhen threatened by humans, specifically, the threat ofSamburu warriors.Our analysis of the infrasonic (below human-hearing)frequencies of each alarm call, conducted in partnershipwith Disney’s Animal Kingdom and published thisyear in the journal PLoS One, opens a window intothe complexity of referential alarm calls in elephants.Elephants not only reacted to human threat with adifferent vocal structure to their call, but they also ran awaywithout headshaking or dusting which we have shown is aclassical response to threatening bee sounds.The study further reveals the depth of intelligence and awareness that elephants have oftheir surroundings, and the vital need for advanced family communication in order to livesuccessfully in the wild areas of northern Kenya.While photosynthesizing, all plantsabsorb radioactivity from the air that wasput there by nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and1960s. This gives scientists a time marker for all thosemeals. The radiocarbon travels up the food chain,finding its way into the fingernails, hair, teeth and tusksof herbivores. Elephant ivory grows ring by ring, andso records the date at which it was formed.accurate dating of ivorywill be a critical toolfor future enforcement ofivory bans.Our Elephant Crisis Fund is now funding work to bringthe technique out of the lab and towards use in the field.15 www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS17

“this magnificent speciesfaces a very uncertain futureunless we take action now. theelephant crisis fund will play a crucialrole in solving this complex globalproblem by supporting projects thatprotect elephants from poachers, stop thetrafficking of ivory and end the demandfor ivory. i am honored to supportthis effort.”leonardo dicaprioSean Dundas Photography18www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS 19

Human-Elephant Coexistencenew research center, tsavoBeehive fences not only reduce harmful elephant crop-raids, but they also provide an incomethrough honey production, an increased crop-yieldand, just as importantly, help to change theattitude of our farmers from elephant-hatersto a tolerance which we hope will enablethem to live more harmoniously withtheir elephant neighbours in thefuture.As a result the STE Elephantsand Bees Project, run byDr Lucy King, has becomepopular with conservationprojects, rural communities,and government wildlifedepartments from all overAfrica and Asia. They arenow interested in how beehivefences may help their specifichuman-elephant conflict (HEC)situation. A new project website(www.elephantsandbees.com)gives free access to all manuals andreports. Scores of new beehives havebeen bought, and the project’s ancientresearch vehicle has been replaced with amore reliable Toyota Land Cruiser.elephants and bees reach sri lankaWith the growing success of our Elephants and Bees Project in Africa there has beenincreasing interest from elephant projects in Asia to see if we can export our beehive fenceidea to help protect Asian farmers from Asian crop-raiding elephants. Sri Lanka has almost 6,000elephants packed onto a relatively small island. The human-elephant conflict issues are severe andwill only increase as development and human expansion grows in this post-war country.Essential to our research is trying to understand how Asian elephants will respond to Asian honeybees, Apis cerana indica. We know they are less aggressive than their African honey bee cousins,Apis mellifera scutellata, but its possible that elephants may still prefer to avoid their stings.As a testing ground for the rest of Asia, we have started two research projects in Sri Lanka. First,we have teamed up with Dr Shermin de Silva and her team at the Uda Walawe Research Project.In June 2014, Dr Lucy King spent a month in Uda Walawe National Park trying to understandhow elephants react to the sound of disturbed honeybees, as well as take the chance to learn moreabout Asian elephant social structure, foraging behaviour, and to observe a famous “dwarf” bullelephant who lives in the park.Secondly, our new PhD student, Kylie Butler from Newcastle University in Australia, has joinedour team to assess if communities next to Wasgamuwa National Park may be interested in tryingbeehive fences as one deterrent method to stop the many crop-raiding elephants that cause havocin the harvesting season. In partnership with the Sri Lankan Wildlife Conservation Society, Kyliewill spend the next 3 years studying the elephants in this stunning area of the island.In November 2013, the community of Mwakoma, next to TsavoEast National Park donated an acre of land. Thanks to this and the StAndrews Prize, The Rufford Foundation, and the Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust, we havebeen able to build a new Elephants and Bees Research Centre. The building has a large, airytraining room for community meetings, a Project Office and the Rufford Honey Room - wellequippedwith the tools to hygienically de-cap, spin and jar our kilos of Elephant-Friendly Honeywith techinques taught by Jess de Boer.The extraordinary sweetness and clear golden colour of our honey is, of course, down to the beesand Tsavo’s plants. With the help of one of Kenya’s best ethno-botanists, Anne Powys, we are nowstudying both plants and pollinators to understand better the genesis of the honey’s magical taste.With our new Post-Doc, Dr Flora Namu and her team of Kenyan undergraduate students fromKaratina University, we are also investigating the pollinating effects of our beehive fences on ourrural farms.19 www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS21

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Awarenessthe rise of the elephant scholarsSmart kids from Samburu can end up trapped not bygrades or opportunity, but by funding. Family pressureto earn rather than learn can mean they leave schoolearly, depriving the area of potential leaders.STE’s Elephant Scholarship programmebegan when Oria Douglas-Hamiltonstarted introducing guests of ElephantWatch Camp to bright but needyschoolchildren. 12 years later, morethan 80 children have received ahigher education thanks to theseintroductions.By September, 2014 had seen tennew students begin their journey.In keeping with our vision toproduce all-round students who willform the future of the ecosystemand of community conservation inKenya, we are proud to announcethat three of our students are pursuinghigher education in Nursing, BusinessManagement and Geospatial Engineering.The other seven students have enrolled fortheir first year of secondary education in highschools across the country. All this would not havebeen possible without the selfless generosity of our dearsponsors the Fred B. Snite Foundation, Handsel Foundation,Carol Steinkamp, Jamie Martin, the Lester Family, Laura Keating,Susan and Curtis Combs, Lisa and Jeff Bennett and Kaile Eison.In assessing students’ performance throughout high school, we detected a disturbing trend: halfway through their education there is a tendency for their grades to drop. The trend is reflectednationally, but in an effort to reverse it we have begun a holiday tuition camp for our scholars.For a week each break they stay at our research centre and are guided through online tuitionwith the Khan Academy to improve in their English, Mathematics and Sciences. This was madepossible by the Handsel Foundation, who fully backed the programme.This year also brings inspiring conclusions to the journeys of two scholars. Mohamed Gololchaand Zeituna Mustafa joined us in the year 2005 and 2006 respectively, and just graduatedwith Actuarial Science and Commerce degrees. They are now ready to face the world and thechallenges that come with it!education in elephant rangelandsschoolchildrenhold the key tosecuring a future forafrica’s elephants -education helps themlearn to use it.For the young elephants of Samburu to have a future, the region’s human children must havea developed appreciation for their pachyderm neighbours. Unfortunately, all too often theonly interaction that children have of elephants is negative due to elephants raiding crops orconfronting livestock herders.Our Education programme continues to reach out to younger generations to instil confidenceand trust in our wildlife. The curriculum, ‘Living in Harmony with Elephants’, developed incollaboration with Disney’s Animal Kingdom, is designed specifically for primary schools locatednear elephant corridors, areas heavily affected by elephant poaching and human elephant conflict.Through interactive sessions that make use of evaluations, posters, visual aids, puzzles,photographs, both indoor and outdoor practical exercises, the programme aims to instilunderstanding and respect for the natural world, including elephants and the key role they play inthe ecosystem in which they live.To provide a positive experience with wild elephants we also include a field trip that brings thesestudents into the Samburu and Buffalo Springs Reserves. From our open research vehicles they aregiven a safe yet up-close experience in which they are able to observe elephants in their naturalhabitat. Our experts are there to help interpret the elephants’ behaviour and name the individualsand their interrelationships, helping to inspire them to become ambassadors for the species.23 www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS 24

Awarenesssaving elephants through hearts and mindscommunitymeetings helpwarriors, elders,poachers, ex-poachersand wildlife rangerstalk in peace.creating a passion for elephantsIt is now twelve years since Oria Douglas-Hamilton started Elephant Watch Camp with hervision of linking Save the Elephants to nomadic pastoralist communities through conservation,education, training and employment.Guests coming to experience the very best of Samburu and Kenya often find they want to forgetheir own links to this land, and over the years they have supported more than 80 studentsthrough high school education, and so far fifteen have gone on to receive a higher training inColleges, Medical Schools and Universities. All thank the generous sponsors who have helpedchange the lives of them and their families for the better.Rosemary Lengunai, the first Samburu female guide to be trained by Elephant Watch, hasalso managed to win a full scholarship from the International Sponsored Programs to joina Community College Initiative Program in the US. She will be studying ecotourism at TheAnnandale Campus in Virginia – a wonderful opportunity to broaden her horizons and gainknowledge and experience of the world.Elephants in Kenya spend most of their time outside of protected areas. These wider regions aretoo large for a solely military-style approach to defending them to make economic sense. Theonly sustainable solution is to win over the hearts and minds of the communities who share thelandscape with wildlife, and re-acknowledge elephants as Kenya’s cultural heritage, and a pillar ofour economic development.Through education, ecotourism and conservation, Elephant Watch is helping give the youngpeople of Samburu a positive, engaging attitude and vision. With deep understanding about thechallenges and opportunities that their region is facing, some may become powerful leaders andforces for good.Following the last year’s successes reforming poachers, our community outreach team has nowestablished an effective format for bringing their stories to areas where warriors still run amok.Backed up by local elders, ex-poachers - including a once-notorious local bandit - are nowadvocating the benefits of conservation, thanks to the support of the Bodhi Tree Foundation.Dispelling the long-standing distrust of southern authority held by the largely nomadic peopleof the north is key to improving law enforcement, and many meetings constitute an importantpeaceful encounter between warriors and Kenya Wildlife Service forces.Together with our anti-poaching work (conducted in close partnership with the Kenya WildlifeService, County Government rangers and the Northern Rangelands Trust), the outreachprogramme has helped reduce poaching intensity in the area immediately surrounding the nationalreserves in Samburu.The programme has been expanded to the far-flung regions of Oldonyiro and Kirisia Forest. Wenow include business people, including the Boda Boda (motorbike) riders who have long assistedpoachers by ferrying illegal goods from town to town, but who now operate as lookouts for illegalactivity - especially ivory trafficking. Through appearances on Serian FM, a powerful local radiostation, our reach has extended from the hundreds who attend our meetings to Serian’s thousandsof listeners.25www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS 27Saba Douglas-Hamilton

STE Newsmalibu fundraiser raises $2.1M in one eveningn May 10 2014, Hollywood gave elephantsO a significant boost at an oceanfront gala thatraised $2.1 million for the Elephant Crisis Fund.The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation andMark Wahlberg co-hosted the event, held at theluxury La Villa Contenta estate - generouslydonated for the evening by Richard & LianeWeintraub. Screenwriter Erica Beeny and herhusband film director Rupert Wyatt hosted, whilephilanthropist Lyndie Benson chaired the hostcommittee. Diana Jenkins, the brains behindNeuro Drinks underwrote the entire cost of theevening, meaning that 100 percent of proceedswent directly to saving elephants.After passionate speeches by Iain and Saba Douglas-Hamilton and co-founder of WCN, CharlesKnowles, it was announced that Leonardo’s foundation would pledge $1 million if a match couldbe raised that night. As the live auction began we were $400,000 short when Ryan Kavanaugh,CEO of Relativity Media, came out of nowhere to bid that amount on a luxury safari for eight.His astonishing, impulsive generosity pushed total raised for elephants beyond $2 million in oneflourish.Jon Batiste and his band then took to the stage – and soon afterwards the dining tables – toprovide the perfect end to the evening. Many thanks to everyone who made the gala such asuccess and to those able to join us. We can now expand the alliance!ste conservationists on tour!272014 was a bumper year of overseasopportunity for STE staff. Festus Ihwagi,Head of Geographic Information Systems,began his PhD at the University of Twente inthe Netherlands. Gilbert Sabinga, SamburuCamp Manager, began a year-long scholarshipin Information Technology at the HoustonCommunity College in Texas. JerenimoLeperei, Research Assistant in Samburu,continued his Emerging Wildlife ConservationLeaders training in the US. Last but not least,Robert Mwehe, a dedicated intern workingwith the Elephants & Bees project in Tsavowon a full scholarship to Yale’s School ofForestry.www.savetheelephants.orgend ivory in hong kongHong Kong has long been China’s ivory gateway.A change in attitudes and legislation regardingivory there could prove a critical test case for similarshifts in mainland China. Influential Hong Konglegislator Elizabeth Quat was already passionateabout the cause when she visited Kenya on a triporganised by our partners WildAid. After comingto Samburu to meet wild elephants and witness theimpacts of poaching, Dr Quat is now on a missionto save elephants from the ivory trade.judges meet elephantsIn August as the third National Dialogue on Wildlife Crime drew to a close in Shaba NationalReserve, the hot and tired delegates got a rare chance to be introduced to the elephants bythe expert STE team. Not surprisingly, the magistrates, tax officials, police and task forceofficials learnt more out in the field than they had in the boardroom. Many were filled with newinspiration for the cause, and learnt volumes about what was being done to track, study andprotect the elephants of Samburu. They have since intimated their renewed vigour to fight forelephants and all endangered wildlife.mid-2014, a sevenpersonteam rowed over4,200 miles across theindian ocean in aid of savethe elephants. on the way theysurvived multiple capsizes,collided with a whale andbroke a world record!SECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS

Politicsthe global coalition for elephantsThe worldwide nature of the ivory trade makes the challenge of ending this threat to the futureof elephants too large for any one organisation or even nation. For too long the politicallandscape around the issue has been fragmented, with many different perspectives and agendasamong both countries and NGOs. Building a global coalition is of critical importance.A big force for consensus-building arrived in September 2013 with the Clinton Global Initiative.STE is proud to be among the influential partners who have stated their commitments alongsidethe seven African nations that have also signed up: Botswana, Cote D’Ivoire, Gabon, Kenya,South Sudan, Malawi, [Tanzania] and Uganda.The Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) is a separate, African-led programme that seeks to movebeyond ivory as a commodity and to fund the African Elephant Action Plan. The continuedbuilding of linkages between the Clinton Global Initiative and the EPI represents an importantconvening.The 65 th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee passed with none of the feared moves towardsreopening the ivory trade coming under discussion. Indeed this represents a tectonic shift in thepolitics of ivory and ivory stockpiles.While almost all parties now recognise the importance of working on three fronts to stop thekilling, stop the trafficking and stop the demand, China remains the key to the future of theelephants. Beyond our work with partner organisations in China, we have continued to host keyVIPs from the East to wild elephants in Northern Kenya, and to the ivory issue. We now havean active Chinese internship programme. The first of many to pass through this programme wasYufang Gao, who went on to be a significant player in helping build bridges of scientific trust andtransparency between Africa and China.South Africaste south africa becomes elephants alive!AAfter 12 years Save the Elephants’ South Africaprogramme has become fully fledged and is nowoperating under the new name Elephants Alive. Theirmission remains closely aligned to that of Save theElephants, namely:To ensure the survival of elephants and theirhabitats, and to promote harmoniousco-existence between man and elephants.Elephants Alive will continue to promote awareness of elephants and the challenges to theirsurvival at this critical juncture. The organisation will continue to work in close collaborationwith Save the Elephants in tracking elephant movements across transboundary areas North, Eastand West of the Kruger National Park, as well as in detailed monitoring of elephant mortality.Alongside collecting and collating information on habitat expansion and proposed corridors,Elephants Alive will also be focussing on research into the influence of elephants on their habitatsand experimenting with methods of alleviating any negative impacts.Those wishing to support Elephants Alive can still do so through Save the Elephants channels (asdetailed at the back of this report), with the project receiving 100 per cent of any donations made.30www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING Sean Dundas A FUTURE Photography FOR ELEPHANTS 31

Publications 2013-2014Scientific PublicationsChiyo, P.I., Grieneisen, L.E., Wittemyer, G.,Moss, C.J., Lee, P.C., Douglas-Hamilton,I., Archie, E.A. 2014. The influence ofsocial structure, habitat, and host traits onthe transmission of Escherichia coli in wildelephants. PLoS One e93408de Silva, S., Webber C.E., Weerathunga,U.S., Pushpakumara, T.V., Tharanga,J.S., Weerakoon, D., Wittemyer, G. 2013.Demographic variables for wild Asianelephants using longitudinal observations.PLoS One 8(12):e82788Gessner, J., Buchwald, R., Wittemyer, G.2014. Assessing species occurrence and speciesspecific use patterns of bais in Central Africawith camera traps. African Journal of Ecology52:59-68.Goldenberg, S.Z., de Silva, S., Rasmussen,H.B., Douglas-Hamilton, I., Wittemyer, G.2014. Dynamic states and social propertiesamong male African elephants, Loxodontaafricana. Animal Behaviour 95 (2014) 111-119Polansky L., Douglas-Hamilton, I., Wittemyer,G. 2013. Using diel movement behavior toinfer foraging strategies related to ecologicaland social factors in elephants. MovementEcology 1:13Sienne, J.M., Buchwald, R., Wittemyer, G.2014. Differentiation in mineral constituentsin elephant selected versus unselected waterand soil resources at Central African bais(forest clearings). European Journal of WildlifeResearch April 2014, Volume 60, Issue 2, pp377-382Soltis, J., King, L.E., Douglas-Hamilton, I.,Vollrath, F., Savage, A. 2014. African ElephantAlarm Calls Distinguish between threats fromHumans and Bees. PLoS One 9(2): e89403.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089403Turkalo, A.K., Wrege, P., Wittemyer, G. 2013.Long term monitoring of the Dzanga baiforest elephants: Population description andbai use patterns. PLoS One 8(12):e85154 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.008515431Vogel, S.M., Henley, M.D., Rode, S.C., VanDer Vyer, D., Meares, K.F., Simmons, G.,De Boer, W.F. 2014. Elephant (Loxodontaafricana) impact on trees used by nestingvultures and raptors in South Africa. AfricanJournal of Ecology 52: 1-8 doi: 10.11 11/aje.121 40Wall, J., Wittemyer, G., Klinkenberg,B., Douglas-Hamilton, I. 2014. Novelopportunities for wildlife conservation andmanagement using real-time monitoring.Ecological Applications 24: 593-601 doi:10.1890/13-1971.1Wall, J., Wittemyer, G., LeMay, V., Douglas-Hamilton, I., Klinkenberg, B. 2014. EllipticalTime-Density model to estimate wildlifeutilization distributions. Methods in Ecologyand Evolution Evolution Volume 5, Issue8, pages 780–790, doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12218Wittemyer, G., Northrup, J.M., Blanc, J.,Douglas-Hamilton, I., Omondi, P., Burnhama,K.P. 2014. Illegal killing for ivory drives globaldecline in African elephants. PNAS September9, 2014 vol. 111 no. 36: 13117–13121In PressGessner, J., Buchwald, R., Wittemyer, G. Inpress. Plant mineral concentrations relatedto foraging preferences of Western lowlandgorilla in Central African forest clearings.American Journal of PrimatologySelier, J., Henley, M., Pretorius, Y., and Garai,M. in press. A Conservation Assessmentof Loxodonta africana, in: M.F. Child, D.Raimondo, T. Hoffman, and T. Sethusa (eds.),The Red List of Mammals of South Africa,Swaziland and LesothoPopular ArticlesHenley, M.D., Galliers, C. 2013. On theTracks of some of Africa’s last remaining ‘bigtuskers’. Environment 16:62-64.King, L.E. 2013. Elephants and Bees. Couldhoney bees be effective for Asia’s crop-raidingelephants? Sanctuary Asia Magazine, India.October 2013.www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING Sean Dundas A FUTURE Photography FOR ELEPHANTS 33

Financial StatementSave the Elephants relies on donations and grants to run our operations. As a registered UKCharity (no. 118804) we operate under strict financial controls. In 2013, 90% of the fundsraised went to support our programmes in the field. 10% of the funds went to Fundraising andAdministration.Statement of Revenue and Expenses US $Calendar Year Ending 20132013 Analysis of ExpenditureREVENUEDonations, Grants, Royalties $1,972,360Interest Earned $36Total Revenue $1,972,396EXPENSESProgramme Grants & Services $1,407,742Fundraising and Administration $157,543TOTAL EXPENSES $1,565,285Change in Net Assets ($407,111)Programme Grants & Services 90%Fundraising & Administration 10%Complete financial reports are available upon request.Converted from management accounts at a rate of £1=$1.652Sean Dundas 34 Photographywww.savetheelephants.orgSECURING Sean Dundas A FUTURE Photography FOR ELEPHANTS 35

How You Can HelpOur DonorsOver the last 21 years our world-leading conservation efforts have been possible thanksto the dedication and generosity of loyal supporters. To join them you can donate ina number of ways. Please consider how you would like to give today by using any of thefollowing methods:Online Giving USUS taxpayers can donate online via theWildlife Conservation Network (WCN)website. 100% of donations designated to‘Save the Elephants’ will come to us. Pleaseremember to designate! To use this method goto www.savetheelephants.org/donate and clickon the ‘DONATE IN USA’ tab.Gift Aid ItAre you a UK taxpayer? If so, every £1 yougive could be worth £1.25 to us, at no cost toyou. To download a Gift Aid Form please goto www.savetheelephants.org/donate and clickon the ‘DONATE IN UK’ tab.Giving by ChequeUSA – Please mail cheques payable to WildlifeConservation Network, 209 Mississippi Street,San Francisco, CA 94107 with a note indicatingyou would like your donation to go to Savethe Elephants. Please include your address forthe mailing of tax information.Tax Exempt ID#30-0108469UK - Please mail cheques payable to Savethe Elephants, c/o Bircham Dyson Bell LLP,50 Broadway, London SW1H 0BL. Pleaseinclude your address for the mailing of taxinformation. UK Reg. Charity No: 1118804Giving through your EmployerMany employers match charitable donations,increasing the impact of your gift. Check withyour company to find out if they will matchyour donation.Online Giving UK (and globally)UK taxpayers can donate online via the Just-Giving website. This online platform allowsdonors to give via credit or debit card for asingle or monthly contribution and also takescare of the Gift Aid. To donate via this methodgo to: www.justgiving/savetheelephantsBank TransferDonate via direct bank transfer. For details ofour bank account please emailinfo@savetheelephants.org and advise us ofyour name and address if you wish to be addedto our mailing list.LegacyLeaving a legacy is one of the easiest ways tomake a lasting gift to charity. A planned giftmay help you give more to elephant conservationthan you thought possible while stillproviding you (or someone you designate)with favorable financial and/or tax benefits Wewould be grateful if you could inform us ofyour decision. For more information contact uson info@savetheelephants.orgAmazon Wish ListWant to donate specific items to Save theElephants and help keep our costs down?Make a real difference to the protection ofelephants, visit our ‘Save the Elephants WishList’ on Amazon.com and donate today!Save the Elephants is deeply grateful for the support it receives. We are thankful for every gift,each of which is an investment in the future of Africa’s elephants.Lifetime Donations - Founders’ Circle: $250,000 and AboveAfrican Parks NetworkAfrican Wildlife FoundationAlexandra Abraham FoundationThe Late Mary Boardman and Richard OlsenMary S. Boardman Conservation FundDiscovery CommunicationsGLOBE FoundationSanjay KumarLeonardo DiCaprio FoundationLiz Claiborne and Art OrtenbergFoundationMarlene McCayRelativity MediaSafaricom FoundationThe Late Russell Train, WWFVodafone FoundationLifetime Donations - Founders’ Circle: $100,000 - $249,000Nancy AbrahamThe Late Prince Bernhard of The NetherlandsBianimales FoundationAgneta BreitensteinGillian BurrThe Late Joe CullmanDisney Worldwide Conservation FundEnvironmental Systems Research (ESRI)ESCAPE FoundationHandsel FoundationThe Heritage GroupHouston ZooInternational Elephant FoundationInternational Fund for Animal WelfareJ.R.S Biodiversity FoundationConservation Visionaries - $20,000-$99,000Charles and Stephanie KnowlesNeuro BrandsKristan and Peter NorvigChristopher OndaatjeChip OwenEleanor Phipps PriceSingleton Rankin and WorldWomenWorkAnne and Connie Sidamon-EristoffThe Tapeats FundTricord FoundationU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)WILD FoundationWildlife Conservation NetworkAkiko Yamazaki and Jerry YangThe following individuals and organisations contributed financially to the mission of STE fromSeptember 1st, 2013 to August 31st, 2014.The Argus FundSael BartolucciGillian BurrDisney Worldwide Conservation FundErnest Kleinwort Charitable TrustSandra FarkasSuzanne FehsenfeldHouston ZooArt IsbellJudith Anne Kaplan Fund of RSF SocialFinanceLand RoverTeresa Luchsinger and Max UngerMcBride Family & Aspen Business Ctr FdnKaren McCallBill MillerM. Piuze FoundationKristan and Peter NorvigPARC FoundationAnne PatteeSue RodgersSATIB ConservationShared Earth FoundationAnne and Connie Sidamon-EristoffVirginia Stafman35 www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS 36

Our DonorsBenefactors - $5,000-$19,999Nancy AbrahamMark and Jacqui AtkinsonErica Beeney and Rupert WyattLisa and Jeff BennettDavid BergerRebecca and Tom BirdsallThe Bodhi Tree FoundationMary E. BrenneisenErika BrunsonCGMK FoundationNancy AbrahamMark and Jacqui AtkinsonErica Beeney and Rupert WyattLisa and Jeff BennettDavid BergerRebecca and Tom BirdsallThe Bodhi Tree FoundationMary E. BrenneisenErika BrunsonCGMK FoundationBeverly ChanJerry Cohen and Madeleine DelmanLynn and Ed DolnickJamie Douglas-HamiltonWalli FinchMarilyn ForbesDomenic ForinoFred B. Snite FoundationSteven and Florence GoldbyThomas GruberJudith HamiltonMeryt and Peter HardingJan Hatzius and Linda-Eling LeeSponsors - $1,000-$4,999Abraham Fuchsberg Family FoundationTed AdamsFred AdenDonald AllenCharles M. BalchThomas BirdsallEric BischoffLouise and Forrest BoothKrista BoxHeidi and Bill BrownMorgan BrownBruce and Lori Laitman-Rosenblum FamilyFundAnn BujasScott BurnsNora CameronChristine HemrickDonna Howe and Juan LoaizaDianne IrishPriscilla JimenezMargaret KaplanThe Krupp FoundationNicole Lederer and Larry OrrThe Lester FamilyJean McBride GreeneMargaret McCarthyAnne MizeIsaiah OrozcoThe Overbrook FoundationNancy PetersmeyerEleanor Phipps PriceFederico PitteriElizabeth Post-MillerEleanor Phipps PriceLiberty RossIsabella RosselliniThe Rufford FoundationRobin RussellRuth Smart FoundationDawn M. Safranek-LeonardLeslie ScottBeverly Spector and Ken LipsonVictoria SutherlandDavid and Karie ThomsonCaroline TisdallWildAidHunt WillardThe Woodward FundBruce and Trish CampbellTom CampbellGlen CeileyMichael S ChaykovskyLaura ChenelWhitney ChiateJerolyn CoenAlison CohenSusan and Curtis CombsDavid CortrightJoy Covey and Tyler GersteinRobert Crooks and Sami TuckerKenneth DalsheimerBarbara DasilvatillmannDavid and Katherine Moore FamilyFoundation, Inc.Deep River Historical SocietyKeith DegiDarcy DeMossNancy DenisonKatherine DiefenbachAnne DormanShawn EdgingtonElephant Action LeagueSophie ElliottRosetta FatherreeBen FreedmanTom and Carolyn FrielFriends of Africa InternationalJanet FriesenAlison FullerDonna GadomskiBrian and Bina GarfieldSusan GidwitzAlan Gilbert and Julia Cohen-GilbertBarbara GillesGraham GlendayGower TrustJoan GreenfieldMichael HackettHappy Hollow Park & ZooHarrington Family FoundationNicola HeathLynne Heinrich and Dwight JaffeeDarcy HitchcockInternational Elephant FoundationJames Ford Bell FoundationCraig A JonesKristine KarnosC. William KauffmanLaura KeatingRachel Klauber-SpeidenLetizia and Murray KornbergRobert KravisFrank LangenJames LanzoneAllene LapidesPeter LemonBianca J. LevinStephen LevinsonRobyn LieseKaren LinesVictor LingAmalie LipstreuDavid LoftusJonathan LuccockNorma Mahmood and Robert McKimBrian and Claire MakareLizbeth MaranoMarcia Angle and Mark Trustin FundGloria and Kent MarshallElizabeth MartinJamie MartinMichelle Mathews-SpradlinErik and Christine MazzoneSusan McConnell and Richard SchellerNichole McGinleyKelly MeyerMichael and Cynthia MillerThe Morris Weinman Memorial FoundationJeff and Shay MorrisKeith MullinTharita MulroneyNature Picture LibraryJohn and Christopher NelsonAlec NewmanDenise and Neal NewmanRobert NewmanChip OwenBarbara Lynn PearcyPamela PearsonTimothy PhillipsThe Pittsburgh FoundationKaren PutzkeRelateRichard E. Capri FoundationJulie RimerAndrew RoblPhilip RosneyRebecca RuedyKyle Ruffing and Kristen PaulusSusan RyanCarl SafinaT SatoMichael Schaeffer and Michelle MatonQuentin SchafferV.G. SecchiaDara ShaletteKaren SharpDerick and Judy SmythLori SouderJames SpaderRichard StaelinCarol SteinkampBarbra StreisandJohn StuelpnagelAveril SweeneyLinda Tabor-BeckJunko TakeyaElaine TaylorThinking Animals, Inc.Phyllis ThomasThe Wall Family FundWalton Family Foundation37 www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS38

Our DonorsJennifer WarburgThe Weatherlow FoundationJay WeaverMichael and Lauri WeinmanRebecca WelchJudith WheatleyFriends - $250-$999Kerstin and Robert AdamsConstance l AldridgeJohn AlexanderAaron AllanJames AllanJim AllawayBeaming BabyJennifer and Jason BarnesLaurel BarrackSusan Baum and Eric SchenkelAlex BeardElizabeth and Walter Bennett, Jr.Kerstin and Robert AdamsConstance l AldridgeJohn AlexanderAaron AllanJames AllanJim AllawayBeaming BabyJennifer and Jason BarnesLaurel BarrackSusan Baum and Eric SchenkelAlex BeardElizabeth and Walter Bennett, Jr.Susan BensonSarah Benson-AmramDarren BilesPhilip and Patricia BlizzardCharlene BofingerThomas BooAdam BooserMike Bromberg and Kenneth ReppKeely Smith BrosnanKG BrownMae BrunkenHarold B BurgerLouise ByrneHelen CahnPatricia CalvoNahanni CampbellJames CaragianesSuzanne A CarderKatherine CattonAshley CheechooCarol CetroneWildlife and Environmental Society of SouthAfricaScott and Clem WilliamsonGerald WoodsRobin WrightJaron Yau and Diana PaczesnyKimcho ChuHenryk CioczekRobertta ClarkeBarbara ClokeSandy and Mike CollinsAudra CooperAmy CoplanEncana CorporationJoey CummingsLeslie DalglishAnoushka Channe DanninNorma Da RosaKaren DattiloDavid and JeanneJean DavidsonBarbara DavisGregory DawsonJanice DeeneanRobin DeGroofChris DickersonVictoria DolanDennis DoordanDennis DoughertyJeanette DoyleRicki DuckwallJames EbyKaile EisonKathleen A EllisChristina EppsSuzi EszterhasJessie EwingExtraordinary JourneysJulia FergusonRoxana FerrisJacqueline FidanzaGarth FisherRobert E. FisherSarah FiskBarry FleishmanAlexander FlemingSusan FosterWendy FosterDawie FourieJenna FriedenbergMarilyn FurmanCheryl GallanFrancesca GanyWael GarasTierney GearonAntonia GeberJohn GernonKathy GervaisKevin GilesBrandon L GleesonGodshalk Family Charitable FoundationPaul GordonJanet GrangerKyle GrayAlex GreenwaldJill GreenwaldHayley GurevitchDan HalperinAnne HamadaBrian Hare and Vanessa WoodsDorian and Nancy HarewoodJoAnn HarleyEerik HarmsPeggy HarrisStephanie HarveyRita HelfandIrene HendersonKori HigginsDan and Susan HillHamilton HillCraig and Gretchen HilleBarbara HilliardDavid HindMichele HixonCarroll Ann HodgesPamela HoenigRichard HoffmanVirginia HolmesSabine HornerApril HuynhI Scream for Elephants FundKenneth JacobsTommy JeziernyJulie A. JohnstonKathleen JonesPeter KangJeffrey KatzKevin Kellogg and Stewart PearceLouise KernerJod DF KimRandall and Kathryn KramerMarco KrapelsEthan KrasnooBeverly LagraveRobin LaurenPam LavinScott LawSandra Lee LawsonTerrel/Rob LeffertsKaleen LemmonMichiel LenstraPatricia LevineMichael LidellLaura LiswoodZoe Lloyd and James LloydLynn LohmanChristine LoizeauxSydney LongfellowSuzanne LovernCathy LuDavid LuckhamDixie LuebckeRichard and Gail LyndesE D B Lyndon-StanfordLisa MageeTom MaguireHoward MargolisMarin Humane SocietyAaron MartinCarla Martin and Trevor BassTim MatherSteven Maviglio dba ForzeKrista McAninleyLane McBrideMichael McCarthy IIMcClure Charitable Gift FundGeorge McConnachieGeeta and Robert McGaheyPatty McIntireAndrew MclarenSimon McManusAnn McNameeVivian Mc WilliamsCatherine MenorJustin MikachMary MillerSusan MillerSusan and John MimnaughJill MitchellStephanie MitchellMegan MondaviJoseph MukaAna MullerJohn MurphyMarilyn NalbachDoug NargizRebecca NelsonRobert and Sheila NelsonDinah Nieburg39 www.savetheelephants.orgSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS40

Our DonorsAhren NiedfeldtDavid NimmichGail OdellKerri ONeillBobby OnsbergAndrea Paik-TeschCynthia PansingSiddharth ParalkarSuvil ParikhE. Spencer ParrisKathleen PeroffJoyce and Duane PhillipsShirley PhillipsMarissa PierceRobert PierronJames PittsMelissa PreddySusanne PressLisa PriceAna M PriuJeanne and David RadvanyIan RaweClaudia RayHayes ReedLinda ReifschneiderDana RobertsSolveig RobertsBrandon RomineMartha L RuddElizabeth Spencer RusherMargaret SaundersJulie ScardinaJane C SchmidtHoward SchwabArthur SchwalgeAnne ScottDaniel SeddonAmanda SegelSelkirk Charitable TrustJoy SherrodNaoya ShimadaHiskias SiefkesNicholas SilveyGlen SimonBhalin SinghRashmi SinghalWilliam Singleton Jr41Mark SlatorAnn SmithDaniel SpoonerAlice StaufferPeter StaufferRobert M SternenbergCarole StomieroskiBarry. Z. StonePeter StrandHoward and Shawna StrauseEd and Sally SuppleeMark and Leila SutherlandLaure SuttleSally SwithersJim and Sandy TaftDonna TagudarLesley TannahillRobin TaylorLinda ThompsonKaren ThorneBetty TothTravel Experts, Inc.Nathan TwetiSarah UmarMark van TuinenTobey Cotsen VictorNelda Villines George VukasinChris WaferDorothy WahlAnne WarnerJohn WatsonKaren WattMyra WhatleyMargaret WhittonJohn B WiepkingWild Wonders, Inc.Wilderness Safari TrustMaria WilhelmMary WilsonAriel WinholtNancy WolfBarbara Wood-PrincePaul WyhowanecZoe WynnEsther YuhKim ZuckerWe thank all our anonymous donors, and those who gave less than $250. We thank OriaDouglas-Hamilton and Elephant Watch Camp for their huge support to STE through advice,fundraising and involvement in our work. Last, but certainly not least, we thank the wonderfulvolunteers who have donated hundreds of hours of their time to STE over the past year.www.savetheelephants.orgJohnnie CrosskenyaSave the ElephantsMarula ManorMarula Lane, KarenP.O. Box 54667-00200NairobiPhone: +254 (0) 720 441 178usaSave the Elephantsc/o Wildlife Conservation Network209 Mississippi StreetSan Francisco, CA 94107Tel: +1 415 202 6380londonSave the Elephantsc/o Bircham Dyson Bell LLP50 BroadwayLondon SW1H 0BLPhone: + 44 (0) 20 7227 7000UK Reg. Charity No: 1118804HMRC No: XT11693info@savetheelephants.org • www.savetheelephants.orgfacebook.com/savetheelephants.kenyaSECURING A FUTURE FOR ELEPHANTS 43

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