Near, far - KAURO

Hello everybody!

As I said in the previous post, I wanted to write something special for the 100th post. So, I decided to talk about Kauro.

Who is Kauro?

Kauro is an elephant calf who lives in Kenya at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, "the most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world and one of the pioneering conservation organisations for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa" (click here for more informations).

A pic from the video

As many other calves, he is an orphan who was found in trouble and rescued by the DSWT's team (here you can see the video of the rescue - the photo above is taken from the video).

One day, by chance, I was watching the TV and there was a documentary about an Italian association which helped little elephant calves. So I looked for this one on Internet and I discovered it was in contact with another association (the David Sheldrick) and, after I read something about their program, I decided to "adopt" one of them.

It had been very hard to choose only one, because they all had a sad story and, if I could, I would have helped every orphan elephant. But the story of Kauro catches my attention and my heart.

He was found in a well with a serious injury on his trunk caused by some predators and the team of the DSWT did their best to take care of him.



A pic from the video


As you can read in his profile on the website, "it was not long before he succumbed to a bad bacterial infection from the effects of being submerged in water, but thankfully he pulled through his course of antibiotics and remained feeding well throughout this very difficult time, and slowly his wounds healed".

Then I saw a lot of his photos and when I looked at this one I understood he was the elephant I would adopt:

He overcame a lot of difficulties and, luckily, now he is very well, he plays with other calves and he is strong and healthy. Every month I receive news about him, about the rescue of other little elephants and they also send me beautiful watercolours.

I'm glad I joined this project, I'm glad to be a foster parent, because I think it's important to help those who are in need as much as we can - humans and animals. As the song "Colours of the wind" says, "we are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends".


See you soon


Yours, Silvia