Wild-Born Babies
Elephants and black rhinos born to orphans we have rescued, raised, and rewilded.
Over the years, orphaned elephants and rhinos hand reared through our Orphans’ Project and living back in the wild have gone on to have their own wild-born young, showing the difference rescuing just one orphan can have for the whole species.
To date, we know of more than 90 elephant wild calves and grandcalves born to orphans raised through our Orphans' Project. These are the babies we have met; their mothers making the pilgrimage home to their Reintegration Unit, inviting us to be a part of this celebration of new life. There will be many more out there, fathered by male orphans living back in the wild. There are also two wild-born rhino calves, in the shape of Sultan and his younger sister Savannah, both born to wild-living orphan Solio who assimilated into Nairobi National Park's black rhino population.
Wild born babies
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1 December 1995
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1 June 1996
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15 January 1999
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22 November 2002
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1 June 2006
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23 August 2006
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3 January 2007
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1 November 2008
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1 December 2008
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1 May 2009
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30 October 2011
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6 November 2011
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