On my last day, visited the Trust’s elephant herds in Tsavo National Park. Born of one family’s passion for Kenya and its wilderness, today its one of the most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation programs in the world and a pioneering conservation organisation for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa.

When a tiny new-born elephant is orphaned, its often because its mother and family have been killed to serve the brutal ivory trade. A calf’s existence depends upon its mother’s milk for the first 2 years.

Founded in 1977 by Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick in memory of her husband, famous naturalist, David. It took her nearly 3 decades to perfect the milk formula and complex husbandry necessary to rear an orphaned infant.