I think you… YES YOU ALL, are so sweet! Any one who manages to plough through my blog, and to have the time to leave a comment is just so great, THANKYOU……. Sheryl, and Anna especially, but all the others as well… I can see that you spend alot of time thinking and coming up with some brilliant comments… So very appreciated… You have no idea how encouraging it is to receive your thoughts… But even more Thanks to you ‘guys’ actually the latest are girls!!, Wendy, and the two Annas!..We are touched, and VERY GRATEFUL…for you being so generous with your donations… All the funds we get through wildlife direct goes to all the sudden problems that arise… Like rescuing Elephants, and alike..remember the big elephant that was pulled out in September… did you see the photos??. I wish we had more success in finding the mothers of these young ones, but thats how it is, and I gather that Nchan and the latest one called Kudup, are doing well at DSWT..
Unfortunately the pictures of Nchans rescue were too late for DSWT before they put the news on the inter net, the pictures below show what a SURVIVER SHE IS!! …
When her rescuers arrived this was her situation… She had been in this hole for any thing from 6 hours to 15 hours..
Poor little baby… Totally exhausted, and just lay there for quite a while… Just to believe she was out..
Suddenly she realised she was out of her watery ” jail “, She just wants to go, but its no good just letting her go into the bush, with no sign of any Elephants around..
Finally quietened down, in the shade, and taking a drink.. Then to wait for the evening in the hope that the mother will come back…
The next morning.. No Luck unfortunately so she is lifted into the vehicle and taken to the nearest runway, about two hours away… To wait for the aeroplane..
Next Blog will show you Kudups predicament!..
Donations made here are
Dec 22nd Anna M USD 115.00
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I hope she makes it. These little ones are so fragile and they are so heartbroken that it seems, sometimes, nothing can save them. That is one tiny baby ele.
Good work all! I look forward to the next DSWT update on her.
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Thanks for the pictures Helen, another little fighter survives the day, would also like to say that I see your updates from the “northern frontier” in Kenya as one of the first concrete front lines in what is an ever growing list of them and the corresponding issues needing to be addressed – human population growth, climate change (drought issues), human/wildlife conflicts for living space… Day to day issues and success with real impact on every day life for people and wildlife, if nothing is done by us today all this will develop in to what most experts believe is a dooms day prediction for us all ! Africa will and is already affected and once again it is the developing world what will take the brunt of what the west have mainly created over the last 50 years or so….
I remember very well an update on your blog from the Conservation committee… On the 30th April 09 with the local Samburu elders:
This summary of the elders stood out to me
When I was a child there was;
· Plenty of rain
· plenty of water
· plenty of pasture
· Plenty of milk
· Plenty of wild animals
· Plenty of wild fruits and food
· Not many diseases
Nowadays;
About the opposite on each item…
It is easy to get despondent but none of us can and will not, every week we can read about all the grass root work that are so brilliantly being done by so many of the bloggers here on wildlife direct from across Africa (and Asia & South America) and can but not be touched and affected and poised to try and help in any small way we can (wishing and working on that one day our contribution could be far more out reaching) there is as we know, no time to lose..
Wow, what a rescue……..thanks for helping this lil baby! I hope she manages ok…….without her mama! Good job everyone involved!