NAIROBI: Dame Daphne Sheldrick, a conservationist famous for her work rearing baby elephants in Kenya and fighting for the protection of the species, has died aged 83, her family announced. With their mothers shot by poachers for ivory, or dying due to frequent droughts, or human-wildlife conflict, scores of baby elephants found their way into Sheldrick’s care. However, it took her 28 years to discover the magic milk formula that would keep alive the baby elephants, who cannot survive without it under the age of two. One must think in human terms for an elephant,” Sheldrick told AFP in a 2004 interview. According to the Great Elephant Census project, African Savanna elephant populations fell by 30 percent between 2007 and 2014.

Source: Pakistan Today April 14, 2018 07:00 UTC