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The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (SWT) [1] operates an orphaned elephant rescue and wildlife rehabilitation program in Nairobi, Kenya. It was founded in 1977 by Dame Daphne Sheldrick to honour her late husband, David. Since 2001, it has been run by their daughter, Angela.
Dame Daphne Marjorie Sheldrick, DBE (née Jenkins; 4 June 1934 – 12 April 2018) was a Kenyan of British descent, author, conservationist and expert in animal husbandry, particularly the raising and reintegrating of orphaned elephants into the wild for over 30 years. [1] She was the founder of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary (MES) is a community-owned conservation area with a size of 40 km², originally designed for elephants and Encephalartos cycads in Kwale County, Kenya. The area is part of an old elephant migratory route between the southern coast and the Tsavo National Parks .
The Sheldrick Trust is so successful in raising orphaned elephants and releasing them back into the wild that over 60 new wild elephants have been born to ex-orphans!
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The elephant herd in southeastern Kenya is primarily composed of rescued and formerly-orphaned elephants, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust said in a news release. One of these female elephants, Melia ...
Major David Leslie William Sheldrick, MBE (23 November 1919 – 13 June 1977) was a Kenyan farmer and park warden, in memory of whom the eponymous David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) was created by his widow, Daphne (later Dame Daphne Sheldrick) in Nairobi.
Recently, a baby elephant's journey on a plane got somewhat easier thanks to some unlikely companions. On October 13th, staffers from the David Rescued baby elephant 'comforted' by two ostriches ...