The Kenyan elephant reserve that's fighting back against poachers

Conservation efforts in Amboseli national park offer hope in the battle to protect Africa's big beasts from ivory poachers - but tackling demand for ivory is still crucial to long-term success

I was lucky to find Cynthia Moss at home. Though she has studied elephants in Kenya's Amboseli national park for over 40 years in the longest-running elephant research project in Africa, she is now not able to spend us as much time in the field as she would like, given other commitments in Nairobi and elsewhere.

"I have that horrible di(C)ji vu feeling," she told me as we sat together outside her tent at her camp in the park's heart. She compared elephant deaths from poaching today to the 15 years before the international ivory ban in 1989, when Kenya lost almost 90% of its elephants.