It’s that time of year in Samburu National Reserve! With so many elephant families in the park thanks to the rains and abundance of vegetation, pickings are good for musth bulls looking for females in estrus. In this short film captured by our monitoring team, we see Archimedes having his way with a young female from the Butterflies family. Shortly afterwards, the Butterflies family gathered around the young female trumpeting loudly. We hope to see a new bouncing baby elephant in this herd in th

Elephants in the mist… ECF partner, African Parks, has shared this wonderful collection of camera trap footage showing wild forest elephants in Moba Bai (a natural forest clearing) in Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of Congo. Camera traps monitoring wild key species such as hippos, bongos, hyena and elephants have increased the park’s knowledge of population size, dynamics and behaviour. The traps are usually placed in inaccessible areas of the park. This enables scientists to collec