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 94 elephant calves and grandcalves born to orphans raised and rewilded through our Orphans' Project. These are the babies we have met: their mothers making the pilgrimage home to their Reintegration Unit, to share this celebration of new life with the humans who raised them. There will be many more out there, including those fathered by male orphans living back in the wild. There are also two known 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
Date of birth:
4 March 2017
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23 October 2016
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2 September 2016
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Date of birth:
18 April 2016
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Date of birth:
20 January 2016
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Date of birth:
17 November 2015
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Date of birth:
13 October 2015
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16 March 2015
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23 December 2014
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Date of birth:
1 April 2012
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Date of birth:
19 January 2012
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Date of birth:
6 November 2011
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