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From our Orphan Units and all of us at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, we would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. To every person that has stood with us this year, we are enormously grateful for your steadfast support and generosity. You kindness during these times has been inspiring and humbling. As we watch over wildlife, and provide for the rescued elephants, rhinos, antelopes, buffaloes and warthog in our care, we are so very aware that it is with your help that we are able to offer the

Tytan is trying his horn at some light forestry! This is excellent practice for adulthood. A rhino’s horn serves as an all-purpose shovel, saw, self-defense weapon, and social tool. They use it to dig for water, break vegetation, ward off predators, establish dominance, and shepherd calves. There are so many reasons why a rhino horn belongs on a rhino — and no where else. And yet, black rhinos were nearly poached to extinction, fuelled by global demand for their horn as a purported medicinal eli