ELEPHANTS : ENDANGERED SPECIES
Elephants are currently the biggest animals on earth. 96 elephants are killed every day in Africa. These animals, real symbols of the African continent, have an activity allowing to keep a real balance of the whole ecosystem in which they involve. Almost 65% of the forest population disappeared from 2002 to 2013.Yet, elephants are real guardians of the ecosystem’s good health and many species’ habitat. Indeed, their disseminator role (seeds transport) in the African forests is vital. They enable seeds diffusion and thus the primary forest regeneration. Elephants are known for their great intelligence, their complex communication means and their ability to express their joy, their anger, love and compassion.Their highly developed social organization make them fascinating animals.
ABOUT THE SANCTUARY
Free Spirit supports an elephant sanctuary in Kenya. A local NGO created a sanctuary for orphaned and abandoned elephant calves in the north of Kenya 8 hours drive away from Nairobi. Its aims at welcoming young elephants , nourish them, nurse them, and send them back into wild life afterwards. These elephant calves are abandoned or orphans for many reasons: dryness, repeated conflicts between humans and wild animals, natural death, poaching…
It is a human size organization carrying a fight for the animal life protection on the field. Each year, they welcome between 5 and 10 baby elephants for a population of about 8,700 elephants in the region, that they take care of in the shelter. The elephants protectors within the shelter are people trained and qualified into elephants rehabilitation in their natural habitat, within their original families.
WHAT WE DO
Free Spirit’s Conservation Partners are committed to protecting endangered species and helping wildlife and people to coexist. We provide specific funding to projects from local non profit organizations.
Free Spirit made donations to that elephant sanctuary. We also go to the field to support them as a team of Free Spirit will go to Kenya to visit the sanctuary and help its volunteers. Finally we created a book about endangered species with a famous painter called SANDROT. Part of the benefits enable us to make some donation to the sanctuary.
