ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 2月12日 03時18分

Photo by David Chancellor @chancellordavid | This is the extraordinary Katie Rowe communicating with an orphan baby elephant. Without its mother, orphaned baby elephants can only survive a few days in the wild. When first meeting a baby elephant, it will lift up its trunk and expects you to blow into it; that done, it will remember you forever and you will never be strangers again. It's a bond established at @r.e.s.c.u.e Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Samburu, northern Kenya, home to the first community-owned elephant orphanage in Africa. I flew over this extraordinary landscape with Jeremy Bastard several years ago. Sitting behind him in his Super Cub plane, we’d left before dawn to shoot landscapes of the Mathews Range. I listened to him talk excitedly about his and Katie’s plans for this incredible place. Designed to rescue and release orphaned and abandoned elephant calves, while creating much needed benefits to the local people that live alongside them, the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary is the finest representation of the communities of this region standing up united for wildlife, in recognition of the value that they can cultivate. Opportunities are being created, livelihoods are improving, and wildlife is returning, proving that nature can provide a sustainable economy for the populations that occupy its magnificent ecosystem. The orphaned elephants cared for by the Samburu community are symbols of a new wave of thinking about wildlife and the environment that goes far beyond traditional conservation methods and dives deeper into the core value of what nature represents. Humbled and inspired to see what they’ve achieved here. Follow their work here @r.e.s.c.u.e #withbutterfliesandwarriors

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