The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is excited to announce a new partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects and Lamu Conservation Trust in Lamu County, which will not only expand our existing tree-planting efforts, but begin the restoration of severely...

In the early hours of 16th October 2019, at the request of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) our SWT/KWS Canine Unit headed to Tsavo West National Park to help track down two suspected poachers, who had been spotted the evening before. The team...

On the 23rd of August visitors to Tsavo East came across a calf collapsed and barely breathing along the Voi river circuit. The drought in the southern sector of Tsavo has really hit wildlife hard, particularly the elephants that have remained in...

Learn how working with the DSWT/KWS De-Snaring Teams and our Aerial Surveillance Unit, we deploy our four fully trained tracker dogs and their handlers to detect illegal wildlife products.

On 8th August 2020 the latest of many fires broke out in the Tsavo Ecosystem, along the Maktau-Taveta Rd to the South of Murka. Appearing only a few kilometres from another fire that broke out a few days earlier, it is thought to have been set...

Our trio of boys graduate from the Nursery to our Ithumba Reintegration Unit, to begin the next stage in their journey back to a life in the wild

Typical of black rhinos, Apollo enjoys routine, familiar faces and known surroundings, which sees his daily outings with his Keepers taking him to the places to which he has become accustomed.

Working with wildlife, one learns to expect the unexpected. Even the most seemingly straightforward story can eventually reveal its true stripes and end up surprising us all.

Now a mother for the first time, orphan Galana who is 13 years of age, was rescued as a little baby having been spotted alone and abandoned near the Galana River on the eastern boundary of Tsavo East National Park

Incredibly, the short rains continued throughout January with most of the Tsavo Conservation Area remaining green and experiencing several heavy rainstorms, whereas typically the area would be starting to dry out by the end of January.