Reteti, founded in 2016, is the first sanctuary owned and run by members of the local Samburu community that rescues orphaned and abandoned baby elephants and rehabilitates them for “rewilding.” ...

Orphaned elephants and sloths are often victims of heartbreaking events. Many lose their mothers to poaching, road accidents, or deforestation. In elephant herds, a matriarch’s death can leave ...

In a noisy, slurpy affair, orphaned elephants at Reteti get a bottle of formula about every three hours. The switch from baby formula to a goat milk-based diet has been good for the calves ...

“We expected to see higher levels [of stress hormones] in orphaned elephants,” says Parker, “because until age eight or nine, elephants are rarely more than 10 meters from their mother.” ...

Elephant Havens co-founder Debra Stevens said, “nine times out of 10,” elephants in Botswana are orphaned due to human-wildlife conflict. Many of the foundation’s orphans were made so ...

Kristin Davis, who has been a patron of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, with its renowned Orphans' Project, since 2009, reunited with an elephant in Kenya 10 years after helping the animal ...

GABORONE, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Four orphaned elephants will be reintroduced into the wild in 2023, after spending five years at the Elephant Havens orphanage in Botswana. Boago Poloko, managing ...

Making 'The Elephant Whisperers,' the Indian film nominated for the documentary short Oscar, was a five-year long journey for Kartiki Gonsalves. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

And even if organizations rescue the baby elephants, reintroducing them to the wild takes time. A wildlife foundation called Elephant Havens, based at the edge of Botswana's Okavango Delta, has ...