Different strokes for different elephants. Vaarti chose to eschew the line-up of waiting bottles and ambled over to the truck for a private feed — he appreciates a more personal touch! New girl Weka, meanwhile, followed the rules and happily took one of the bottles that was ready and waiting for her. (Watch closely and you’ll see Weka’s fellow graduate, Shujaa, nose in to see if he might snag any extras!) Every elephant is unique, with individual habits, likes, and dislikes — our job is to find

Feeding time. Orphaned elephants at The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust get fed daily like clockwork. Tsavo, Kenya | explore.org

Running into the new week with a dash of joy! These energetic sprints tell a much bigger story. When a newly rescued orphan starts to become playful, it is a telltale sign that they are beginning to heal — both physically and, of equal importance, psychologically — from the circumstances that left them orphaned. For a deeply emotional species like the elephant, the mind-body connection is a powerful force. Donors like you make these stories possible. Become a foster parent and follow an orphan’s

A parade of wild-living orphans and their babies, coming to say hello to their human-elephant family. Leading the way is 15-year-old Mutara, an orphan we rescued as a newborn in 2009 — she likely lost her own mother to poaching. She is joined by her wild-born baby, Mambo — and, we suspect, an as-yet-unintroduced addition: We believe Mutara is pregnant again! Generations of elephants have been rescued, raised, and reintegrated back into the wild through our Orphans’ Project. The fact that so many

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Kenya is rewriting its rhino story — and we are proud of the role we play in it. Not so long ago, Kenya was teeming with black rhinos. However, global demand for rhino horn fuelled a catastrophic wave of poaching that very nearly destroyed the species. By the mid-1980s, populations had plummeted from 20,000 to less than 400. The once-ubiquitous symbols of Kenya’s wilderness had been nearly poached to extinction. Today, Kenya’s black rhinos are the face of a remarkable comeback story. Despite dev

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