Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage Day Trip

Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage Nairobi Day Tour, Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage Day Tour, David Sheldrick elephant orphanage, Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage Nairobi. Best known for our work to protect elephants, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (SWT) operates the most successful orphan elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world. But we do much more than this. The Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage operates the world’s most successful orphan elephant rescue and rehabilitation program and is one of the pioneering conservation organisations for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa. On call every day of the year, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust travels throughout Kenya to rescue orphaned elephants and rhinos left alone with no hope of survival. Many of the orphans rescued are victims of poaching and human-wildlife conflict and are in a terrible state of emaciation and distress. After each orphan rescue, the long and complex process of rehabilitation begins at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s Nursery nestled within the Nairobi National Park. For milk-dependent elephant calves, it is here, during this crucial phase, where they are cared for and healed both emotionally and physically by the DSWT’s dedicated team of elephant Keepers who take on the role and responsibility of becoming each orphan’s adopted family during their rehabilitation.

Summary:

Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage was started in inside Nairobi national park by Dame Daphne Sheldrick as a rescue centre for young elephants abandoned by their mothers through poaching or falling into human settlement water wells.

Visits to the Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage are mainly done privately or organized through Nairobi travel agents.

The lead caretaker will take you through each and every baby elephant’s life history and the circumstances under which they were abandoned in the wild. Some of these stories are heart-wrenching like one that was abandoned and had had her trunk and tail chewed off by hyenas before she could be rescued by the Wildlife service.

You will learn a lot about the challenges of wildlife conservation from this talk and see the magnitude of the problem by the ever-increasing numbers of orphaned babies. And these are the few that they can reach in time.

The public lecture at the Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage is strictly for 1 hour as they try to minimize the interruption to the animals’ daily routine by these displays.

Safari Highlights:

• Offers a wonderful opportunity to see the baby elephants being fed with milk from bottles
• The keepers will give you a lecture on each of them, explaining their names and their life histories on how they were orphaned
• Watch the baby elephants playing in the mud
• Get a chance to come close to the baby elephants
  
  Included in the Safari Cost
• Arrival & Departure airport transfers are complimentary to all our clients.
• Transportation as per the itinerary.
• Accommodation per itinerary or similar, with a request to all our clients.
• Meals as per itinerary: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
• Game Drives
• Services of a literate English driver/guide.
• National park & game reserve entrance fees as per itinerary.
• Excursions & activities as per the itinerary with a request
• Recommended Mineral Water while on safari.
  Excluded from the Safari Cost
• Visas and related costs.
• Personal Taxes.
• Drinks, tips, laundry, telephone calls, and other items of a personal nature.
• International flights.