WHAT WE DO
At the Elephant Watch Portfolio, we try to use eco-tourism to lift up local populations by improving livelihoods and reinforcing the conservation ethic of traditional cultures to protect and preserve wild areas and animals. We have a deeply green eco-philosophy that informs our work, striving at every turn to minimize our footprint and do no harm. We believe that development is welcome, but not at the automatic expense of the ancient ways of the nomadic people whose understanding of the wild environment is second to none. The continued well-being of our planet, its mountains, streams, savannahs, swamps, forests, deserts and seas are part of our responsibility as decent beings to protect for the benefit of our children and children’s children and all other creatures on it, who we believe have an intrinsic right to exist with or without man. We aim to bring visitors to these wild places to encourage connections between cultures from all corners of the planet, to reconnect people to the natural world, and to fan the flames of compassion.
SUSTAINABILITY
Responsible tourism is a fashionable phrase, but we have been pioneering it as a business model for over two decades now. Key aspects are providing local employment, education, encouraging waste-free living, and approaching animals and the environment with compassion and respect.
CONSERVATION
We work closely with Save the Elephants (STE), a leading conservation charity based in Samburu, to protect elephants and fight against poachers. STE’s Elephant Crisis Fund gets 100% of donations to the worst hit areas across Africa to stop the killing, stop the trafficking of ivory and end demand.
EDUCATION
Thanks to the Elephant Watch Scholarship Fund, close to 100 bright but impoverished children from the Samburu area have gone on to secondary or tertiary education. We believe passionately that education is the first step on the ladder to climb out of poverty.
LATEST FROM OUR BLOG
Bill and Chelsea Clinton’s Visit to Save the Elephants
IT WAS JUST ANOTHER WONDERFUL WEEK IN KENYA! Dear Friends and Family, It has been quite a month, but with the coming of the rains everything changed. Within days the dry earth turned into a carpet of green grass, wild flowers adorned the bushes and shrubs, and just as...
Cherie’s Final Breath
This last month, a BBC film crew joined us to make an obs-doc series called This Wild Life, about life in the bush with our small family, working side by side with Samburu nomads at both Save the Elephants and Elephant Watch Camp. A typical morning starts with the...
HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT US
Your support is vital in helping us to carry on all activities related to the four areas highlighted above that form the core and are the ethos of our portfolio. Get in touch with us through our form below to help us further our work, even if it’s from afar.