Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
A humbled thank you to the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust for selecting my image to represent endangered species for their exhibition in the Jersey Airport. The latest update of the IUCN Red List shows that 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction. These are alarming numbers. This honor is very bitter sweet.
YATTA'S FIRST BORN WILD CALF
In the depths of northern Tsavo East a unique baby was born; a baby elephant strengthening the bond between the wild herds of Tsavo and the orphaned elephants of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The Ithumba Unit's second wild-birth was sealed twenty-three months ago between twelve year-old Yatta and a young wild bull of twenty-six years.
DAME DAPHNE SHELDRICK
Daphne Sheldrick, founder of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the first person to pioneer the successful milk formula and husbandry needed to raise a milk dependent baby elephant talks about her autobiography, An African Love Story, published on 1st March 2012.
LAYONI, DABASSA, AND ROMBO MOVE TO VOI
On the 28th of December The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust moved three orphans, namely Layoni, Dabassa, and Rombo to Tsavo East National Park to re-habilitate them back into the wild from the Trust's Voi Unit. This films shows their journey. To read more please look on our website https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/updates/updates.asp?ID=390