Just a selected list from my experience……please suggest others in comments! Travels on my Elephant by Mark Shand ( 1991) Eland Publishing The founder of Elephant Family buys an elephant and rides her across India to the Sonepur Mela. The last page, with a eulogy to Tara , is recommended ( and all the others,…
Meet Nosey , now a happy resident of the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. But , of course, it wasn’t always like that. Nosey was born in Zimbabwe nearly 40 years ago , captured in the wild at the age of two and brought to Florida, packed in a plane with 20 other ‘liberated’ elephants. The…
Something is stirring in the Jungle of Capitalism. But first, a shout out for the work of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and their pioneering elephant orphanage in Kenya , www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org. Daphne Sheldrick established the Trust , after the early death of her Husband and after Daphne’s death in 2018, her daughter Angela continued the…
In December 2020, scientists in central Kenya were following an elephant herd led by their matriarch, Naisula. She was carrying a radio collar and leading the herd in search of food , around the lands of the Samburu people. What they didn’t expect and what they can’t explain, is why she led the herd to…
