Mara Elephant Project (MEP) has been operating in the Maasai Mara region of Kenya since 2011 with the mission of protecting elephants to conserve the greater Mara ecosystem. The African elephant is in crisis. Across the continent, a mixture of land-use changes resulting from human population growth (expanding settlements, crop-based agriculture, fenced plots), deforestation and poaching for elephants’ highly-valuable ivory is causing their populations to dwindle. The growing needs of the Af…
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Alex Walker’s Serian posted a recent blog about a pretty extraordinary rescue of a baby elephant. Sofi Sosa Del Valle, a manager at Serian’s Mara Camps, found a one-month old baby elephant stuck in tree roots along the Mara River. Mara Elephant Project’s CEO Marc Goss and rangers were involved in this baby’s journey to David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s (DSWT) orphanage. “Pili” as they called him after the tree roots he was found in, immediately latched on to the human…
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