We are committed to “giving back” in a meaningful way. Our partnership with our clients can ensure this commitment is more substantial than what we can do alone.
Laurel Consulting Partners is a firm committed to the preservation of endangered wild life, especially the African elephants.
- For every new assignment from a client, Laurel Consulting Partners will foster and sponsor an orphaned baby elephant.
- You will receive a photo of your elephant and a monthly update on how the baby is doing.
WHY?
Poaching of the elephants for their ivory tusks is at an all-time high, with an elephant killed every 15 minutes. Yes, one every 15 minutes… in the time it has taken you to browse through this website… a magnificent and crucially needed for our survival animal has been killed. Think about it. While you are reading this – an endangered animal is being killed. Right now.
The price of ivory has far exceeded the price of gold.
It is estimated that last year alone, well over 35,000 elephants were killed in Africa. At this rate, elephants will disappear in just 8 years.
This fact alone is tragic, but… there is more at stake… elephants are known as “the gardeners of Eden” because they are crucial to maintaining the eco-balance of the habitat for other animals and even humans by making new water holes, forging paths through dense vegetation, breaking branches for other animals to feed on, etc.
AND… The killing of the tusked elephants reaches far beyond the tragedy of that particular elephant’s agonizing death. And in most cases that death is indeed brutal, long, and agonizing.
But, in addition, when an elephant mother is killed, her calf can not survive, as elephant calves are dependent on their mother’s milk for a minimum of 3, and partially up to 5 years of age.
Hundreds of such orphaned calves are rescued by The David Sheldrick Wildlife Preservation organization in Kenya. The orphans remain there and are cared for and nurtured for up to 10 years with the ultimate goal to rehabilitate them to live in the wild again.
The DSWT is the most successful organization known which dedicates its existence to saving and rehabilitating wild orphaned elephants — as well as several other species since they NEVER turn any creature away.
About DSWT —
| David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust | |
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| Founded | 1977 |
| Founder | Daphne Sheldrick |
| Focus | Elephant conservation |
| Location | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Area served | East Africa |
| Website | https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/ |
DSWT Mission statement
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust embraces all measures that compliment the conservation, preservation and protection of wildlife. These include anti-poaching, safe guarding the natural environment, enhancing community awareness, addressing animal welfare issues, providing veterinary assistance to animals in need, rescuing and hand rearing elephant and rhino orphans, along with other species that can ultimately enjoy a quality of life in wild terms when grown.
At the heart of the DSWT’s conservation activities is the Orphans’ Project, which has achieved world-wide acclaim through its hugely successful elephant and rhino rescue and rehabilitation program. The Orphans’ Project exists to offer hope for the future of Kenya’s threatened elephant and rhino populations as they struggle against the threat of poaching for their ivory and horn, and the loss of habitat due to human population pressures and conflict, deforestation and drought.
To date the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has successfully hand-raised over 150 infant elephants and has accomplished its long-term conservation priority by effectively reintegrating orphans back into the wild herds of Tsavo, claiming many healthy wild-born calves from former-orphaned elephants raised in our care.
The success of the Orphans’ Projects is due to the assistance of many organizations and individuals but particularly to the support of the Trust’s Fostering Program. We thank all who have fostered one or more of the elephant orphans.
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