In the News
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Reteti Elephant Sanctuary: tackling the struggle for survival
SELAMTA MAGAZINE | 3 MARCH 2023
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The Right Way to Befriend an Elephant: A Guide to Wildlife Sanctuaries
WALL STREET JOURNAL | 18 MAY 2023
You can book a safari, but visiting a wildlife sanctuary lets you contribute in a real way to the care of these incredible land animalsDescription goes here. -
Welcome to Samburuland
FINANCIAL TIMES | 11 JANUARY 2023
In remote northern Kenya, the semi-nomadic Samburu are finding new ways of navigating challenging times. -
Rewilding the orphaned elephants
BBC WORLD NEWS | 28 DECEMBER 2023
In a remote corner of Northern Kenya, former Samburu warriors continue to rescue orphaned and abandoned baby elephants, even as drought has put on hold plans to release them back into the wild. -
Fupi the orphaned giraffe returns to his whisperer
THE GUARDIAN | 11 JANUARY 2023
Lekupania is an animal keeper who saved Fupi after he fell in a ditch. Every morning, Fupi and all the other rehabilitated giraffes come back to check on him…. -
For orphaned elephants, friends may be key to stress relief
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | 15 JULY 2022
Living with peers may help young elephants thrive, according to new research—a finding that could help elephants orphaned by poaching and drought.
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Social life helps orphaned elephants overcome loss: study
JAKARTA POST | 17 JULY 2022
Orphaned elephants manage to overcome the loss of their mothers by living in a herd, highlighting the importance of a social life for the species, according to a study….
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Kenyan elephant sanctuary tests goats' milk as healthier feed option
REUTERS | 27 OCTOBER 2021
An elephant orphanage in Kenya is testing goat milk as a food for its small herd as a potentially healthier and cheaper form of nutrition than human baby formula - a solution that also puts money back into the pockets of the local community….
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Elephant Sanctuary in Kenya Keeps Babies Alive and Healthy by Feeding Them Goat Milk
INSIDE GUIDE | 29 OCTOBER 2021
When some orphaned and abandoned elephant calves needed intervention to stay alive, they found help in northern Kenya’s Reteti Elephant Sanctuary…
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For Kenya’s orphaned elephants, goats to the rescue
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | 12 AUGUST 2021
At the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya, orphaned calves used to be fed imported human infant formula. Now many drink a formula made of local goat milk, which is cheaper, more sustainable, and easier to source….
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World Elephant Day: inside Kenya’s first indigenously run sanctuary for orphans
THE GUARDIAN | 12 AUGUST 2021
In the mountains of northern Kenya, a Samburu community has built a sanctuary for orphaned elephants. Reteti is the first indigenously owned and run sanctuary, which rescues and raises the orphaned elephants, and has the ultimate goal of reintroducing them to the wild….
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Warriors Who Once Feared Elephants Now Protect Them
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | 25 MAY 2017
Trailblazing Samburu communities in northern Kenya have come together to save orphaned elephants….