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:
Ban Sang District of Chachoengsao Province. The important water resource is the Prachinburi River. The district is divided into nine sub-districts ("tambon"), which are further subdivided into 93 villages ("muban"). Ban Sang itself is a township ("thesaban tambon") which covers parts of "tambon" Ban Sang and Bang Krabao. There are a further seven tambon administrative organizations (TAO). Ban Sang District Ban Sang (, ) is the westernmost district ("amphoe") of Prachinburi Province, central Thailand. In the past the area of the district was dense forest with many wild elephants. Laotians from Vientiane moved to settle their village in the area, which they named