Baby elephants are very curious - one might even say nosy. While some of the orphans in our care flop right down and go to sleep at night, others take a while to settle. This time, its Kinyei who isn’t ready to call it a night, instead enjoying a surreptitious slurp from the pail as a nightcap. You might also spy freshly-cut branches and a ball in her stable, offering fun and food during the night in equal measure. Kinyei is one of 263 orphaned elephants alive today thanks to our Orphans' Projec

POV: Lunchtime with our Voi orphan herd, featuring the beautiful Baraka. With a helping hand from Keeper Walter, she finishes her milk in record time! — You might notice Baraka’s distinctively scarred ears — reminders of the poacher’s snare she survived before she was rescued. Learn more about this special orphan and support her ongoing journey through an adoption: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/baraka | Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

Tytan is nosing his way into the perfect nap spot! A little scratch, a little stretch, and he’s ready for a long afternoon kip. — Tytan just joined our foster program. As a gift for yourself or someone special, you can his journey back to the wild — and help us provide the specialised, round-the-clock care every orphan deserves — through an adoption: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/tytan | Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

Raising an orphaned elephant is a true labour of love. When an orphan is rescued, so begins a journey that can span upwards of a decade. Day and night, our wonderful Keepers nurture them as their own, until the elephant is grown and ready to reclaim their place in the wild. Even then, the commitment continues, as we provide support and secure the habitats they call home. To date, we have successfully raised more than 320 orphaned elephants. It is telling that, when a wild-living orphan gives bir

Building trust 💚 Mushuru is one of our newer rescues. Like so many orphaned elephants, she is a victim of human-wildlife conflict. The local Maasai community reported her hiding in the trees — alone and terribly vulnerable, at the tender age of two. Worse still, she had spear wounds on her body. We can’t be sure if these were the reason she was orphaned or happened afterwards, but either way, Mushuru has suffered at the hands of humans. We have had to work hard to earn Mushuru’s trust. It’s an

The past few months have been a period like no other for wildlife and the Sheldrick Trust. Poor rains earlier this year drove a very long dry season in the Tsavo Conservation Area and, without substantial rainfall to sustain them, wildlife reached a crisis point. We are now quite literally bursting at the seams with new rescues, some of them of the pachyderm kind like this floppy-eared baby, while others are horned and hoofed. Today, we invite you to go behind the scenes to meet some of the newl

The Ithumba Big Boys Rapsu, Challa and Zurura are among several orphan bulls we have rescued, hand-raised and reintegrated back into the protected wild from our Ithumba Reintegration Unit. At the time of their respective rescues, they barely reached the waists of our Keepers. Now, they are wild-living and tower over the other orphans and their human family on their periodic visits to their former home – our Ithumba Reintegration Unit. The successful return back to the wild of these gentle giants