This holiday season, Reteti Elephant Sanctuary is raising funds to provide vital milk for 40+ orphaned calves. Each day, 672 litres of goat milk are delivered by Samburu Milk Mamas and boda-boda riders, supporting elephants and the community. We aim to raise US$400,000 for all Q1 2026 milk. Your gift nourishes calves, sustains 1,280 Milk Mamas, and strengthens Indigenous-led conservation.
Elephant calves in Northern Kenya are orphaned or abandoned due to drought, man-made wells, human-wildlife conflict and natural mortality. The Sanctuary was established by the indigenous community to protect and nurture endangered orphaned elephants, as well as to reduce human-wildlife conflict, and promote a sustainable wildlife conservancy.
Designed to rescue and release orphaned and abandoned elephant calves, whilst creating much needed benefits to the local people that live alongside them. The Reteti Elephant Sanctuary is the representation of the local communities (Samburu people) 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 this magnificent ecosystem. On a fast-developing continent where space is at a premium, the Samburu community that occupy the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy is reversing the trends and securing their wilderness landscapes, returning to a learned, age- old history of wildlife tolerance and coexistence.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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