Saving Orphaned African Elephants
How a Kenyan-British woman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, first raised orphaned baby African elephants
Amid the slaughter of African elephants by poachers, a Kenyan-British woman became the first to successfully hand-rear orphaned baby African elephants . As infants, elephants are dependent on their mother's milk and are extremely vulnerable. Without their mothers, orphans struggle to survive. In 1987 Dame Daphne Sheldrick worked out a formula that can keep them alive. The charity she set up, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, has now raised over 200 orphaned elephants in Kenya..
Photo: Feeding time for orphaned elephants at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust nursery in Nairobi, Kenya (AFP/Getty Images)
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