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Falakhe’s Story

10,000 Birds

After a few hours we guesstimated that the pack had moved south and after checking the shooting range (where the park rangers tasked with the unenviable responsibility of protecting the park’s rhinos practised their art) we joined the road to the less touristy southern part of the park. Pippa called the park ranger in charge of animals.

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Joy for Orphan Elephants

4 The Love Of Animals

A mobile vet unit was able to tranquilize her, clean her wounds, and extract the spear. The plight of elephants has become so dire that their greatest enemy—humans—is also their only hope, a topsy-turvy reality that moved a woman named Daphne Sheldrick to establish the nursery back in 1987.

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