Orphaned Elephants While Adorable Tell A Devastating Story
Personal memory by Lindsay DuRoss
2010 • Nairobi, Kenya
There is a wonderful place in Nairobi where you can play feed and put to bed baby elephants. But never forget why this orphanage exists. Each baby has lost their mother and most probably due to poaching. I was there one night when a baby came in from being pulled from its dead mother's side. Traumatized and terrified he arrived in the best place for him, but he did not know that and the cries coming from him will never leave my mind. An elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its tusks at this rate elephants will be extinct in 10 years. Make it Stop!
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