THE RESUE OF BARSILINGA
Gunshots were heard during the evening of 13th April 2012 by the community of the Lpus-La-Mpasion area near Wamba in the Samburu tribal area of Northern Kenya. The next morning (14th) a severely wounded female Elephant with a calf at foot was spotted in the area, bullet wounds in the chest area and front legs had rendered her barely able to even move.
ARRIVING IN AFRICA
ARRIVING IN AFRICA seemed in some ways like coming home. "Kenya is wild, uncultivated, primitive, mad, exciting, unpredictable. It is also slightly degrading on it's effect on some rather weak characters, but on the whole I am living in the Africa that I always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood. Right from the moment I got here I felt at home. Out here I am no longer mad...because everyone is mad."
Jane Goodall (1957)
The Rescue Of Murera
On the 21st of February the DSWT got alert from a camp manager in Meru National Park of a lone young elephant calf, who appeared to have a broken leg. The Camp Guides said that they had seen this orphaned elephant over the past few days.