Baby Elephant is found down a deep well…
Category: elephants | Date: Sep 13 2008 | By: milgistrust
Sadly we received bad news yesterday morning, that one of our scouts found a baby elephant had fallen down a well… Literally 10 hours before the Milgis Lugga came down in full flood, as there has been alot of rain in the Kirisia hills in the last couple of days.. Despite huge efforts to avoid a repeat of October 2006, when several baby elephants fell down deep wells, 3 died and one was rescued… called Lesanju, who has been a star at the David Sheldrick wildlife Trust orphanage ‘Lesanju’ the matriarch at 21 months old… The new baby has been taken down to the orphanage today…He must be very hungry as he has not had any milk for possibly 36 hours..After the rescue of Lesanju, Daphne Sheldrick had given me some special milk just in case this would happen again, but we could not get to it because it was on the other side of the flooded lugga…He was rescued from KWS Latakwen by helicopter at ten am this morning, and taken to an airstrip to be taken to Nairobi.. At this stage we await news to find out how he is…What a shame..
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I Helen Douglas-Dufresne, have been doing walking camel safaris for the last 20 years in the Mathews-Ndoto region having witnessed the destruction of the Milgis ecosystem by the local communities who were unaware of its implications, either we did something or not- so the Milgis trust was born!
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One Response to “Baby Elephant is found down a deep well…”
angela godinho, on 29 Sep 2008
Barseloi was rescued the day of my second visit to sheldrick wildlife
ife trust and he is doing great. According to Angela he is very ac-
tive and playful. I am planning to adopt him along with the others
I already adopted.
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