Issue

Elephants across Africa are in grave danger. These highly intelligent, sophisticated and long-lived animals suffer from human encroachment and a lack of sufficient space as well as the imminent and growing threat of poachers coming after their ivory tusks.

Response

Born from one family’s passion for Kenya and its wilderness, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is today the most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world and one of the pioneering conservation organizations for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is working to preserve elephant populations and protect this fragile species from the black market ivory trade through their anti-poaching efforts.