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Kenya elephant conservationist Daphne Sheldrick dies, aged 83

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Kenya elephant conservationist Daphne Sheldrick dies, aged 83

Kenyan elephant conservationist Daphne Sheldrick has died of cancer aged 83. She helped save the lives of more than 230 elephants – many of which had lost their mothers to poachers or drought – by developing a milk formula successfully rearing them. Her Kenyan charity is world-renowned for its care of orphaned elephants.

Dame Daphne “lived alongside elephants and learned to read their hearts”, read a statement her charity's website. Born and raised in Kenya, Dame Daphne spent the first half of her career working alongside her British husband David, who founded Kenya's biggest national park, Tsavo East.

 

After his death in 1977, she founded the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT), which is best known for rescuing and reintegrating orphaned elephants into the wild. It took her 28 years to develop the special milk formula to bottle-feed baby elephants. Dame Daphne published several books and was in many television programmes and films, including the 2011 documentary Born to be Wild.

In 2006, Queen Elizabeth made her a dame.

 

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