It is always more pleasing to give than to receive and there can be none more deserving of such gift than our orphaned baby elephants. Just ask the staff and crew members of a major airline who regularly volunteer to take part in each compassionate flight. For British Airways, providing warm blankets (comfort) and the transport of nourishment (special milk flown … Continue reading »
Ndotto’s Rescue The logistics of Ndotto’s rescue was more like a nightmare than the “dream” of which his name implies. Through a series of communications the rescue began. Beginning with a tribesman’s hours long trek down Ndotto’s namesake mountain, through a Milgis Trust “community ranger,” through that “grassroots conservation organization’s” founder Helen Douglas-Dufresne to The … Continue reading »
Name: Ndotto Date of Birth: Tuesday, 5 August 2014 Gender: Male Where: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nursery Nairobi Kenya Africa Too Cute For Photos see Ndotto’s orphan profile & video at: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust His name comes from the Ndoto Mountains, the place of his birth. (“In Swahali it means dream.”) And … Continue reading »
She was so fragile they didn’t know she would even make it through the night, let alone bring another kind of joy into their lives at later date… This video is so beautifully produced and sweetly told Elephant Spoken Here will now defer to Dame Daphne Sheldrick and one of the selfless DSWT keepers / … Continue reading »
Name: Gypsy Date of Birth: 1967 Gender: Female Where Now: PAWS Wildlife Sanctuary Elephas Maximus For more information and Videos of Gypsy that you will love see them at: PAWS If you remember the documentary film that Lily Tomlin narrates, An Apology to Elephants, you will remember Pat Derby co-founder of PAWS, shushing the … Continue reading »
The Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) has launched a campaign to Save Bull Elephants. By donating to their cause, “Bucks For Bulls,” you can help rescue bull elephants like Nicholas or Prince who now have a peaceful life and can live like elephants, as they should. “The “Bucks For Bulls” premise is simple. Every friend of … Continue reading »
Name: Nicholas Date of Birth: 15 December 1993 Gender: Male Where Now: PAWS Wildlife Sanctuary Elephas Maximus For more information and Videos of Nicholas that you will love see them at: PAWS He was forced to ride a special elephant sized tricycle when he was very young (he was taken from his mama … Continue reading »
The goal was to raise $1.5 million dollars “to go towards securing a series of pioneering elephant corridors in Asia” and to be used among other “Elephant Family projects”. What are elephant Corridors? They are a “modern day conservation + humanitarian solution that works”. They allow elephants the space they need to roam from … Continue reading »
Vowing to carry on the good works of Camilla’s late brother, HRH Prince Charles, along with HRH,the Duchess of Cornwall, stepped in last year as “joint Presidents of Elephant Family,” after the sudden death of its founder Mark Shand. As a part of their Royal duties they intend to make room for Saving Asian Elephants. … Continue reading »
Name: Kauro Date of Birth: Thursday 2 January 2014 Gender: Male Where: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nursery Nairobi Kenya Africa Too Cute For Photos, and a video, see Kauro at: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Orphan’s Project If anything, since becoming an orphan on the day his mother was taken from him by poachers, … Continue reading »