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CONSERVATION IN ACTION ELEPHANT CALF RESCUE

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                            THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST Many Kenyans in the streets of Nairobi have no idea about the dedication and conservation work undertaken by the Sheldrick trust which is today the most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world and one of the pioneering conservation organizations for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa or even that there are elephants within Nairobi National Park, the park is too small to house wild elephants because they require quite a huge home range bearing in mind their destructive way of feeding and their huge appetites but there are elephants here, young little baby elephants this are orphaned elephants rescued victims of mainly poaching and human-wildlife conflict in terrible state of emaciation and distress, this one of a kind rescue center for orphaned elephants is called The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT). Mud bath at the Nairobi Nursery  My encounters with the DSWT

LION TRACKING (STALKING LIONS FOR CONSERVATION) OL PEJETA DIARIES

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Radio Telemetry on Lions and Pride ID The African lion, an iconic symbol of strength, is one of the latest additions to the growing list of animals threatened with extinction. The first time you see one up close there's this thrilling feeling that you get "I cant be the only one who gets it" its fear, its exiting but most of it fun. The love and affection that Kenyans have for this magnificent species was best portrayed after the controversial shooting of the stray lion "Mohawk" from the Nairobi National Park some years back, but the plight of this species has reached an alarming rate and thus needs to be acted upon by relevant bodies be it the Kenya Wildlife Service or Non governmental Organizations that play a crucial role in the immense research and monitoring of the species the dynamics revolving around their declining numbers and solving their conflicts with livestock herders in terms of compensations to avoid them being killed in retaliation.  Li