Mount Kenya Trust

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Aug 20 2008 | By: mountkenya

The little elephant in the middle of the picture below is a female who was loosing condition very rapidly a couple of months ago. Sadly she has just now been abandoned by her family. Elephants don’t do this unless there is absolutely no hope left. She has a deformed foot because last year she was snared. Though a KWS Vet was able to remove the snare the damage done by the wire has left her a cripple. We hoped she would survive but though she has put up an incredible fight she has now been left. I cannot begin to tell you how much pain and suffering this sensless and barbaric activity brings to our wildlife in this part of the world. The saddest thing of all is I cannot get someone to euthanase her right away. There are too few vets and red tape does not allow me to bring in a private vet to help. This fact gnaws at me every single day. I feel impossibly helpless.

Please please assist us to get the Joint Wildlife Protection team up and running. The cost of having the team on the ground per annum is high but it is nothing compared to the cost to wildlife not to get this vital operation under way. If we can stop the snaring before it happens we don’t have to worry about crisis management which in itself is almost impossible to implement.