By Roxanne Reid
Humans working together to rescue a baby elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. This is what I like to see: a positive interaction instead of the ghastly poaching statistics coming out of Africa in recent years.
Humans working together to rescue a baby elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. This is what I like to see: a positive interaction instead of the ghastly poaching statistics coming out of Africa in recent years.
Around 7–10 million elephants roamed Africa in the 1930s. Today CITES estimates the number at just 400 000 to 650 000 – and it's declining rapidly thanks to demand for ivory, combined with habitat loss from human settlement. More than 25 000 elephants are being poached in Africa for their ivory every year. In Central and West Africa, the elephant may soon disappear completely.
That's why the people in this video – members of the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Amboseli Elephant Trust – are my heroes. They rescued the five-day-old elephant calf from a muddy pond in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.
Note how Mother Elephant hovers anxiously during the rescue attempt, and how trusting the little calf appears to be.
If the reunion between mother and calf after the rescue doesn't melt your heart, I suggest you check with a cardiovascular surgeon because your heart just isn't functioning properly!
Copyright © Roxanne Reid - No words or photographs on this site may be used without permission from roxannereid.co.za. (I don't hold copyright of the video.)
That's why the people in this video – members of the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Amboseli Elephant Trust – are my heroes. They rescued the five-day-old elephant calf from a muddy pond in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.
Note how Mother Elephant hovers anxiously during the rescue attempt, and how trusting the little calf appears to be.
If the reunion between mother and calf after the rescue doesn't melt your heart, I suggest you check with a cardiovascular surgeon because your heart just isn't functioning properly!
Copyright © Roxanne Reid - No words or photographs on this site may be used without permission from roxannereid.co.za. (I don't hold copyright of the video.)
