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Monday, July 06, 2009

THE ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE….and a RHINO ALERT!

The DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST rescues orphaned elephants and rhinos, and also runs a veterinary service for Kenya’s national parks.  It’s the brainchild of David Sheldrick’s widow, founded the year after his untimely death in 1976.  Since that time, Daphne Sheldrick has been working out the methods used by the Trust to rescue and rehabilitate almost 100 orphaned elephants that would surely have died without their intervention - more than 40 elephants are now part of wild herds in TSAVO (EAST) NATIONAL PARK, perhaps the last place in Eastern Africa large enough to allow for the natural ecological cycle of elephants and the land and vegetation that sustains them.  Please go to the Sheldrick Trust site - they are worthy of your support, and a little bit will go a long way for the elephants, and offer you a wonderful experience with your own adopted orphan, or in giving a gift to someone else.  CHECK IT OUT

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Posted by Earl on 07/06 at 02:52 AM
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