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In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught. (Baba Dioum, 1968.)

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Our proverbial door is always left open for the ex-orphans to come visit. After eight months away, Chemi Chemi just sauntered in!

We rescued Chemi Chemi in June 2009 from Loisaba Conservancy – a young bull, eight months old, in desperate need of food and company. Brought to Nairobi where we gave him one-to-one care from our Keepers and the comfort and company of a new herd, he recovered. When he outgrew the Nursery, he graduated to our Ithumba Reintegration Unit alongside his bull friends – and the rest, as they say, is history.

Nineteen years on from his rescue, Chemi Chemi is wild. Those friendships from his Nursery days and the bonds forged with his Keepers are still going strong – he still drops by our Ithumba Unit every few months.

Wondering how we know its him? Check out his raggedy, holey ears, all unique identifiers of our beloved bull.

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Say hello to Alia! This sweet little orphan was rescued in October 2025. She is shy but brave – she survived without her herd for days in the bush before rescuers found her. She's not yet two years old, and her folded-over ears mark her out from the herd. We'll be sharing more about her in upcoming posts, but if you can't wait to meet – and adopt – her, head to: https://t.co/ciyktarJ8K

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Did you know that in Tsavo alone, we operate 26 Anti-Poaching Teams in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service, along with a specialised Canine Unit? Through daily foot patrols, aerial missions, and targeted operations, our rangers — and their four-legged teammates, like Abby and Bela here — protect Kenya’s wild spaces and the animals who call them home.

Discover how our teams make a difference in this vast landscape:
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Wondering how we tell the orphans apart? Each elephant has different physical characteristics – but it takes seeing them every day to notice. They all have little physical characteristics that make it easy to tell them apart, such as different shaped heads and bodies, notches to their ears, different skin textures, tails & more.

For instance, Kamili has folded ears, Kiasa a little kink in her tail & Latika has a smaller than average (but perfectly formed) trunk. Other orphans have more rounded foreheads or notches/small nicks in their ears where they have got caught on bushes.

Personalities and behaviour also play a large part. Just like human families, our orphan herds have very gregarious, outgoing individuals & also those who prefer a quieter life – as the Keepers spend so much time with the orphans it doesn’t take long for them to become familiar faces, and trunks!

For older and wild living orphans, like Challa here with his torn ear, many of our elephant carers would have spent several years with them as they have grown up. So they can spot (sometimes small) physical differences and quirks & identify them when they come to visit.

Interested in learning more? Hear Keeper Emmanuel give the lowdown on how to identify one of the Ithumba orphans, Larro: https://t.co/adGlhq0KRu

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