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Latest News & Updates:  

1. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s 2009 Newsletter
   
   

2. IMAX - 3D Film Born to be Wild - 7/21/2010
   
   

   An IMAX film crew has recently finished shooting a new 3D film about Dame Daphne Sheldrick and the orphan elephants called BORN TO BE WILD. (read more)

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3. An auction of photography at the Kesselhaus in Munich with proceeds to DSWT - 7/21/2010
   
   

   We like like to express our sincere thanks to p. (read more)

4. A new orphan arrival - Makireti - 7/18/2010
   
   

   This female calf of approximately 1 year old was spotted at around midday on the 7th July 2010 by a Community Game Scout by the name of Isaac Mutua who was on a routine patrol on the Muhoho Farm owned by the Kenyatta family near Ziwani abutting Tsavo West National Park. (read more)

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Foster an orphan elephant A gift that not only helps save a life but also bequeaths to the recipient an endearing icon that will be both educational and appealing.  This is a living gift of a wonderful animal, the largest mammal on earth, and a gift that enables someone to become a part of the life of the elephant of your choice.

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5. Mara Veterinary Unit - Black Rhino Ear - Notching - 7/3/2010
   
   

   During the month of June, the Mara Veterinary Unit participated in an important excercise, the Ear-notching of Black Rhinos in the Masai Mara National Reserve. (read more)

6. The death of Sian - 6/27/2010
   
   Sian, orphaned when just 9 months old was the calf of the elephant named “Soila” from Amboseli’s famous SA elephant family, who never returned from having crossed the Kenya border into Tanzania, which Hunters habitually patrol hoping to murder one of Amboseli’s famous Big Tuskers. (read more)

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The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is a small flexible charity, established in memory of David Sheldrick, famous Naturalist and founder Warden of Kenya's giant Tsavo East National Park in which he served from 1948 until 1976. 

Since its inception in 1977 the Trust has played an extremely significant and important role in Kenya's conservation effort.  Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick along with Six Trustees assisted by an Advisory Committee of practical Naturalists with a lifetime experience of African conditions oversee and direct the operations of the Trust.

Helping save the lives of orphaned Elephants and Rhinos who are ultimately released back into the wild is just some of the many wildlife commitments The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is involved in.  The Trust runs seven full time Desnaring teams, two mobile Veterinary Units, and is active in a Community Outreach Program along with working with the communities in an educational capactiry locally,  and through articles for the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya, the Press and Radio Programs.  The Trust has also provided advanced training in wildlife management for promising students. 

The Trust continues to provide a blueprint for the welfare of animals in captivity and, in the case of elephants, illustrated the sophistication of their communication and their social needs.  It has perpetuated vital field knowledge and experience that would otherwise have been lost, and made it available to all national parks in East Africa and many beyond.

The Trust provides continual support for The Kenyan Wildlife Service through our Desnaring efforts within the Tsavo Ecosystem and the Mobile Veterinary Units, but also through support of security fuel, and electrically fencing sensitive National Park boundaries, alleviating human wildlife conflict.  The Trust supports indigenous tree nurseries, and water projects in both Tsavo National Park and in the bordering community areas.

This web site contains valuable information concerning Elephant & Rhino Conservation, elephant emotion, the orphans who have been raised by us, and much more.

'Saving wildlife and wilderness is the responsibility of all thinking people. Greed and personal gain must not be permitted to decimate, despoil and destroy the earth's irreplaceable treasure for its existence is essential to the human spirit and the well-being of the earth as a whole. All life has just one home - the earth - and we as the dominant species must take care of it.'   

Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick