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:
Patara Elephant Farm This is because elephants were used for labor in the destruction of these forests. Nowadays, using them for this kind of labor is not a major concern since teak logging was banned in Thailand in 1989. Even with this ban, some illegal logging activities still happen along the Thai-Burma border. Immediately after the 1989 ban, many laborer elephants were unemployed. This happened when the tourist industry in Thailand was becoming big, and therefore many of these elephants were bought to be used in the elephant tourism industry. Since after the 1989 logging ban many mahouts were also left without jobs,