The DSWT and Kenya Wildlife Service Mobile Vet Teams exist to treat sick and injured wildlife in Kenya with a significant number of cases being the treatment of elephants targeted by poachers. In the last 12 months, the DSWT's three Mobile Veterinary Teams and SkyVets have treated more than 188 elephant cases.
January 8th: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust rescued a two year old bull elephant from Amboseli National Park, whose mother, known to the researchers of Amboseli Trust for Elephants as Zombe, was extremely sick and in a state of collapse.
Motherhood is a full time job and with these cast of characters Mpole is working overtime. She will only let them play these ambushing games for so long before her patience runs out.
Ashaka was rescued on 3rd November 2013, aged just 3 weeks old at the time, she'd been found stuck in a drying up water hole in Manyani, Tsavo West National Park. Read the full account of her rescue at http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp?N=309 where you can also choose to foster Ashaka and help provide her with a second chance at a life back in the wild when grown.
