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28-404: For over 25 years Kenya-born Daphne Sheldrick lived and worked alongside her husband, David , a naturalist and founding warden of Tsavo East National Park . Throughout this time, they raised and successfully rehabilitated many wild animal species. Daphne was the first person to have perfected the milk formula and necessary husbandry for infant milk-dependent elephants, discovering that coconut oil

56-640: A southern white rhinoceros crash. Many of the orphaned animals rescued are victims of poaching and human-wildlife conflict . Following rescue, orphaned animals are taken to DSWT's nursery in Nairobi National Park for rehabilitation. To combat ivory, bushmeat and rhino horn poaching, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust operates anti-poaching units in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust operates

84-716: A Sky Vet initiative headed by Kenya Wildlife Service Vets to alleviate the suffering of injured wild animals. The Tsavo mobile veterinary unit, based at the KWS headquarters in Voi , covers an extensive area, including the greater Tsavo Conservation Area as well as the Chyulu Hills National Park and the Shimba Hills National Reserve . The Mara mobile veterinary unit covers the Masai Mara National Reserve ,

112-547: A game reserve in 1948. Gazetted a national park in 1974 to protect the core of this unique ecosystem, it was declared a UNESCO site in 1991. The park earned $ 3.5 m (€2.9 m) in 2005. On 29 September 2005, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki declared that control of the park should pass from the Kenya Wildlife Service to the Olkejuado County Council and the Maasai tribe. Some observers saw this as a political favour in advance of

140-787: A result, the David Sheldrick Memorial Appeal, a project of the African Wildlife Project, metamorphosed into the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in 1987; becoming an independent non-profit organisation. Embracing the conservation, preservation, and protection of wildlife in Kenya, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust—renamed in February 2019 to honor Daphne and the whole Sheldrick family—today operates

168-576: A specialist canine unit with three Belgian Malinois who have been trained to track and detect illegal wildlife products such as ivory, rhino horn and bush meat, as well as guns and ammunition. Supporting the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's ground efforts is an aerial unit, which takes part in security patrols and provides support to search and veterinary intervention for injured elephants and wildlife, as well as search-and-rescue operations for orphaned elephant calves and wildlife emergencies. The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust operates four mobile veterinary units and

196-467: A vote on a new Kenyan constitution; legal challenges are currently in court. The degazetting would divert park admission fees directly to the county council with shared benefits to the Maasai immediately surrounding the park. Amboseli National Park was home to Echo , the most researched elephant in the world, and the subject of many books and documentaries, followed for almost four decades by American conservationist Cynthia Moss . Echo died in 2009 when she

224-526: Is 39,206 ha (392.06 km ) in size at the core of an 8,000 km (3,100 sq mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya- Tanzania border. It harbours 400 species of birds including water birds like pelicans, kingfishers, crakes, hamerkop and 47 raptor species. The local people are mainly Maasai . The park protects two of the five main swamps and includes a dried-up Pleistocene lake and semiarid vegetation. In 1883, Jeremy Thompson

252-490: Is how I would like to live, out here among the animals under the sky." She was educated at Nakuru Primary School and The Kenya High School where she matriculated in 1950 with honors and the possibility of a bursary to attend university; however, she opted for marriage. In 1953, she married Bill Woodley, who battled wildlife poaching in Kenya's game reserves. They ultimately divorced, and on 20 October 1960 she married Woodley's boss, David Sheldrick . From 1955-76, she

280-476: Is located in Nairobi National Park and is open to the public for one hour every day. The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust operates a digital foster program which allows individuals to support their field projects by fostering an orphaned elephant, rhino or giraffe in their care. The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust travels throughout Kenya to rescue orphaned African bush elephants and a south-central black rhinoceros crash, along with other animals like giraffes , hippos and

308-549: The Kenya Forest Service , the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has embarked on conserving and sustaining the environment in the Kibwezi Forest . The forest is one of Kenya's last remaining groundwater woodlands. The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust also operates a community outreach project, working to improve the livelihoods and educational standards of people living along the borders of Kenya's National Parks and protected areas through

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336-488: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in order to honour both David and Daphne. The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust raises orphaned baby elephants and integrates them back in the wild. The trust is a leader in conservation efforts to help save the remaining African elephant populations in grave danger from the illegal ivory trade . The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Elephant Orphanage

364-742: The Eastern Conservation Area, whilst also extending its services into additional parks and reserves in the Northern Conservation Area. The Amboseli mobile veterinary unit operates out of Amboseli National Park and services the Southern Conservation Area encompassing Kajiado , Namanga , Magadi , Lake Natron as well as the Southern Tsavo West area including Lake Jipe , an ecosystem famous for large number of elephants. The Sky Vet initiative funds and coordinates

392-426: The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has been erecting and maintaining hundreds of kilometres of fencelines to limit this growing conflict over natural resources. With limited rainfall in the arid Tsavo Conservation Area, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has built fourteen boreholes and windmills to enhance the dry season productivity, as well as instigating temporary water-relief programs to relieve suffering. In partnership with

420-434: The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has successfully rescued over 262 orphaned elephants and reintegrated over 160 back into the wild. For her work as a conservationist, Sheldrick was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 1989 Birthday Honours , and separately elevated to UNEP 's Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1992, where she was among the first 500 people worldwide to have been accorded this particular honour. Sheldrick

448-610: The adjacent Mara Triangle , neighbouring community areas, as well as the Lake Naivasha and Nakuru areas within the Rift Valley ; when needed, the unit also operates as far west as Ruma National Park and Lake Victoria . The Meru mobile veterinary unit operates out of Meru National Park and provides permanent veterinary support to the larger Meru ecosystem consisting of Meru National Park, Bisanadi National Park and Kora National Reserve , including all wildlife dispersal areas around

476-556: The country received Independence in 1963. Sheldrick appeared as herself in the 2011 documentary Born to Be Wild . She also had an appearance talking about an orphan elephant, which she took care of, which aired on PBS on the show My Wild Affair . Amboseli National Park Amboseli National Park , formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve , is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County , Kenya. It

504-453: The deployment of KWS vets to emergency wildlife cases throughout Kenya by air and is a vital addition to the DSWT's veterinary program. Between Sky Vets and the four units, over 1,500 wild elephants have been assisted and the lives of countless other species have been saved. With agriculture and human settlement encroaching into wildlife habitats, disrupting migratory routes and protected boundaries,

532-511: The introduction of community initiatives and local employment. Daphne Sheldrick Dame Daphne Marjorie Sheldrick , DBE (née Jenkins ; 4 June 1934 – 12 April 2018) was a Kenyan of British descent, author, conservationist and expert in animal husbandry , particularly the raising and reintegrating of orphaned elephants into the wild for over 30 years. She was the founder of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust . Daphne Jenkins

560-446: The most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world. It works alongside Anti-Poaching Teams, Mobile Veterinary Units, Aerial Surveillance, and a Sky Vet initiative in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service . Other projects which aim to safeguard the natural environment and enhance community awareness include Saving Habitats and Community Outreach projects. Best known for its pioneering Orphans' Project,

588-471: Was a recognised authority on the rearing of wild creatures and was the first person to perfect the milk formula and necessary husbandry for both infant milk-dependent elephants and rhinos. When she first made attempts to keep the orphaned baby elephants alive with traditional milk sources, they remained malnourished and faded into death. It was only after trying every combination she could find that she hit on one milk formula from Europe containing coconut oil that

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616-839: Was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery by Glasgow University in June 2000. In December 2001 her work was honoured by the Kenyan Government through the prestigious Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (MBS) decoration. In 2002, the BBC recognised Sheldrick with their Lifetime Achievement Award. In the November 2005 issue of the Smithsonian magazine, Daphne Sheldrick

644-565: Was born in Kenya in 1934 to British parents, at a time when Kenya was still a British colony. Her parents, Bryan Jenkins and Marjorie Webb Jenkins, operated a large farm and timber operation in Gilgil . At the outbreak of World War II, her father, a naturalist, was sent to a game reserve where he was ordered to kill zebra and wildebeest to feed British and Kenyan troops. In 1940, at age 6, she went to visit her father's camp and later remember thinking, "This

672-597: Was co-warden of Tsavo National Park with her husband. The couple began caring for all different kinds of orphaned animals, always with a point of reintegrating them into the wild. Many of these young animals were elephants, and Sheldrick began hand-feeding them a milk formula she developed herself. During this time, Sheldrick raised and rehabilitated back into the wild community orphans of misfortune from many different wild species, including elephants, black rhinos, buffalo, zebras, elands, kudus, impalas, duikers, reedbuck, dikdiks, warthogs, civets, mongooses and birds. Sheldrick

700-461: Was found to be the nearest substitute for the fat in elephant milk. Daphne Sheldrick died on 12 April 2018 at the age of 83 after a battle with breast cancer . After 17 years of marriage, David Sheldrick died on 13 June 1977 at the age of 57. Following her husband's death, Daphne Sheldrick continued her dedicated conservation efforts. Sheldrick and her daughter, Jill, cared for a seeming continuous succession of orphaned elephants and rhinos. As

728-476: Was named as one of 35 people worldwide who have made a difference in terms of animal husbandry and wildlife conservation. Queen Elizabeth II promoted Daphne Sheldrick a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Year's Honours List, "[f]or services to the conservation of wildlife, especially elephants, and to the local community in Kenya", the first damehood to be awarded in Kenya since

756-509: Was the first European to penetrate the feared Maasai region known as Empusel (meaning 'salty, dusty place' in Maa ). He, too, was astonished by the fantastic array of wildlife and the contrast between the arid areas of the dry lake bed and the oasis of the swamps, a contrast that persists today. Amboseli was set aside as the Southern Reserve for the Maasai in 1906 but returned to local control as

784-424: Was the nearest substitute for the fat in elephant milk. After David's death in 1977, Daphne and her family lived and worked in Kenya's Nairobi National Park . In 1987, the David Sheldrick Memorial Appeal, a part of the African Wildlife Project, became the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an independent non-profit organisation. The organisation re-branded their name and logo on 1 February 2019, changing their name from

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