Elisabeth Thompson💙

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[FromageNotFarage 🇬🇧🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🧀 @BoatGnome]

Don’t you just love it when all these MPs nobody’s heard of turn up on the telly for their 15mins of fame to knife the PM in the back so they can try and get a job in the cabinet of whoever takes over. Shameful #newsnight

[Midfield Gen. (ret.) @ParkStryfe]

These cowards in @UKLabour are exemplified by this MP on #Newsnight thinking, 'we've won the General Election and now let's have a Leadership Election so I can get my person in'. WTF?!?

The country needs a functioning government not the return of the Tory's clown show.

[Eileen Murphy @EileenHMurphy]

Well said @SKinnock on #Newsnight - urging #Labour MPs to stop the madness. Stop the attack on @Keir_Starmer and to keep their nerve for a man who did what everyone said was impossible. Fools they are who call for a new leader!

[Mark Gray @mgbed]

@vicderbyshire We dont want more chaos.

Any replacement will face even worse bias than KS. The call for an election will be ever present.

Farage and all the greed obsessed media will be loving this.

This is not good for the majority of those in the UK.

Idiotic

[Elisabeth Thompson💙 @lisabethtea]

Keep dogs on leads near wildlife! Dogs attacked Swan nest, one dog nearly drowned by Cob🦢🦢 https://t.co/9L7ggcyztZ

[Elisabeth Thompson💙 @lisabethtea]

Reform plans for NHS and privatisation
https://t.co/XatvWX7orQ

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

A quick introduction to some of the youngest members of our extended Ithumba family. Yatta, a poaching orphan rescued in 1999, seen here chaperoning her own daughter Yara and Kinna's daughters Kito and Kama.

Yara – born 29th March 2025 to Yatta, her fourth calf. Hours after giving birth, Yatta brought her to Ithumba to meet the herd. Her name means 'small butterfly' in Arabic.

Kito – born 6th December 2024 to Kinna, meaning 'precious jewel' in Swahili. Kinna arrived at the Nursery in October 1999 after being found stuck in a waterhole in Meru National Park. She is now one of Ithumba's founding females – a wild matriarch with three daughters by her side. Kito is the 68th known wild-born calf to an orphan raised through our Orphans' Project.

Kama – Kinna's eldest daughter, born 2017, now eight years old and already fiercely protective of her baby sister Kito.

And it all started with a rescue. With every orphan we save, we secure generations to come. Become part of our legacy: https://t.co/CooVpdJj7e

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Often, an orphan will rejoin the wild with their friends – forming herds, or joining others that made the journey before them. Not Ziwa.

He's a peacemaker, but had something of a tempestuous relationship with his peer Faraja, who was his polar opposite. We weren't sure how the situation would resolve – but Ziwa found a way. He took it upon himself to establish a relationship with a wild family of elephants, who adopted him as their own.

Ziwa still visits, in the company of his new family, who drop him off and then hang around until he's ready to leave. He's always been like that – loyal. As a two-year-old in Amboseli, he stood guard over his dying mother in a waterhole, keeping the hyenas at bay until the rescue team arrived.

Reacquaint yourself with Ziwa's story: https://t.co/NSZpxi1vd9

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Meet Bumpy!

This enchanting little chap was rescued over the weekend. His mother likely died defending him in a territorial fight and when the Kenya Wildlife Service found him, he was huddled beside her body. They rescued him and placed him in our care.

This was Bumpy's first night with us, snuggled next to Keeper Simon. Simon put his mattress on the ground and the tiny hippo nestled by his side, swaddled in his cherry blanket. After his fraught ordeal, he finally felt at peace and slept soundly in the crook of Simon's arm.

Now, you can become part of Bumpy’s journey — read his full rescue story and support him through an adoption: https://t.co/sR6w4FUvNN

[Elisabeth Thompson💙 @lisabethtea]

Dogs for adoption Durham area UK via #TendercareRescue https://t.co/Nm4czfSLuj

[Humane World End Animal Testing @humaneworldeat]

99 yrs ago, scientists invented lethal dose tests—designed to literally kill animals. We're calling for an end to these tests before they turn 100 in 2027—they're ethically unacceptable when non-animal methods exist. If we know better, we should do better: https://t.co/RqnwQL0eCE

[Humane World for Animals @humaneworldorg]

Urge Iceland to end whaling!

Only three countries in the world still hunt whales commercially. Iceland is one of them. Whales are often harpooned multiple times with long spear-like weapons, leading to unimaginable cruelty and prolonged suffering—with some whales taking up to two hours to die.

Take action to help put an end to this unacceptable cruelty: https://t.co/QkOG3buRen

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Sign the petition to end the Guga hunt today https://t.co/nxzSPOVOWz

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

This is so sad.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Convicted fox hunter Wayne Greggory leaves court after £250 fine and says ‘I’m going hunting now anyway’. The hunting ban as it is right now is a joke.

[Elisabeth Thompson💙 @lisabethtea]

Lovely dog Layla for adoption via @EvermoreDog ❤️ https://t.co/xTBHH0BZx3

[Elisabeth Thompson💙 @lisabethtea]

Dogs enjoying life!❤️ via @Dogs4Rescue https://t.co/Bqss3IB0HO

[Elisabeth Thompson💙 @lisabethtea]

I've just signed "Establish a public inquiry into foreign interference" - Will you support the campaign too? https://t.co/utBS8TdQlw @OpenBritainHQ @action_storm

[Elisabeth Thompson💙 @lisabethtea]

Molly and Sienna need a home together❤️ via #TendercareRescue Durham UK
https://t.co/9U41sLWuFy

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Remembering the moment we first met Imp nearly one month ago...

On the morning of 22nd February, Ishanga made a surprise appearance at our Ithumba Reintegration Unit. But the biggest surprise was yet to come – by her side was a tiny baby underfoot! Head Keeper Benjamin and the team had been waiting 22 months to meet tiny Imp, as she has been called, and she was every bit as special as we hoped. As so many orphans have done before her, Ishanga had returned home to share her joy with the human family who raised her!

Remind yourself of the story, including Ishanga's own journey from orphan to lion survivor and now, mother: https://t.co/Axc5WPp9le