Save the Elephants African elephant populations, while at the same time, increasing awareness in the many issues which threaten to erode elephant populations and the habitats in which they live. Iain Douglas Hamilton has played an integral role in stopping the illegal ivory trade throughout the world, while at the same time raising the profile of elephant conservation and awareness. Primarily based in Samburu National Reserve in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Save the Elephants carries out rigorous studies of elephants, including elephant collaring and more recently, sophisticated elephant tracking techniques. STE works on three fronts to stop the killing of elephants:
Elephants in Thailand loggers. Environmental exploitation, massive landslides and mudflows led the government to ban logging in Thailand in 1986 . This lead to almost 70% of domesticated elephants to be out of work but they still help a large amount of cultural significance in Thailand and were are large part of the locals livelihood. After the ban on logging a lot of the elephants joined the tourist industry and became part of trekking camps and street begging . Today many elephant activists such as Lek Chailert are making "ecotourism" more popular, working to free these gentle giants from work and promote their