June 19th
Some of the older Nursery elephants, (such as Murera, Orwa, Bomani, Teleki, Quanza, Sonje, Kihari, Ishaq-B and Naipoki) now have milk every 6 hours, rather than 3 hourly as before. Only Kihari, Ishaq-B, Sonje and Naipoki escort the younger elephants to their 3 hourly milk feeds and enviously watch them as they feed! The 6 hourly feeding is in preparation for their initiation into the Rehabilitation phase of life’s journey. Murera and Sonje, whose movement has been compromised of the poaching that left them orphaned, will be transferred to a new Rehabilitation facility which will be constructed within the Trust’s concession of the Kibwezi Forest where the environment is more forgiving than that of Tsavo.