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- Do Not - Buy or wear ivory
- Do Not - Buy-wear-use products made from elephant skin or tail hairs (briefcase, shoes, belt, bracelet).
- Do Not - Ride elephants or attend a circus.
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Director
Dr. Barbara McKnight has been conducting research on the Tsavo elephants since 1989. Her research is based on individually recognized elephants, many of whom she has known for two decades. She works full time in Tsavo monitoring elephant behavior. Her research has focused on the impact of poaching on demography, reproduction and grouping patterns in Tsavo East National Park. In 1990, she was fortunate to see the birth of a male elephant (Benjamin) in Tsavo.
She has also studied elephant numbers, group structure and boundary crossings between the National Park and private land. The current focus of her research is on mature bull social behavior. She is a member of the IUCN Elephant Specialist Group.
Before starting elephant behavioral-ecology field research Barbara studied marine mammals (whales and dolphins) off the coast of California for three years. She worked for two years in Ethiopia with the Peace Corps as a teacher and nutritionist. She received her Ph.D and M.Sc. from the University of Oxford, UK and a B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado, US. She is affiliated with the Kenya Wildlife Service
Donations are needed to support this field work: video camera, supplies, computer, scanner and maintain the research vehicle: fuel, spares and insurance.
To support this long term Tsavo Elephant Research please
send your donation (check, western union) to the director.
Dr. Barbara McKnight
Tsavo Elephant Research
P.O. Box 788
Voi, Kenya
Email: bmcknight@tsavoelephants.org
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Send your donation to Wildize Foundation USA with a notation directing the funds to Tsavo Elephant Research. Wildize Foundation www.wildize.org is a registered nonprofit organization (tax deductible contribution)..