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| MWEYA'S ADOPTING MARLENE |
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| The following is MWEYA's Orphan Profile | |
| A female
calf born January 2001 Queen Elizabeth national Park, Uganda; estimated
age is just days old when rescued. Age on arrival in our nursery - 1
month. This baby is unique, being Ugandan as opposed to all other Kenyans. She simply wandered into a fishing village near Lake George in Queen Elizabeth national Park, was thereafter transported across the channel in a fishing boat and dumped back in the bush, because her rescuers didn't know what else to do! Fortunately, word got out, and she was re-captured by an expatriate who had heard about her, and taken to the Uganda Education Centre, where she was cared for round the clock by expatriate volunteers and two National Park Rangers with telephone instructions from us in Nairobi. Meanwhile, the ponderous bureaucracy of getting an elephant across a territorial boundary had to be tackled, which involved 6 long weeks. Eventually, however, "Mweya" (thus named by the Ugandans) arrived on the 27th February 2001 by helicopter. She is tiny for her age, but what she lacks in size, she certainly makes up in character - an extremely forceful and playful little elephant with strong personality and a mind of her own! To learn about fostering an elephant please visit www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org! |
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