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Elephant orphans. Goat's milk. This safari reveals the impact of wildlife conservation in Kenya
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Keepers at the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in central Kenya feed goat milk to young orphaned elephants that are being raised at the sanctuary on May 23 2025. - photo by John Dowling via AP
RETETI ELEPHANT SANCTUARY, Kenya (AP) — We stood at the edge of a dusty corral baked by the equatorial sun and ringed by chest-high posts as thick as telephone poles. On some posts, workers had perched plastic jugs of goat's milk, each holding a couple of liters and equipped with red nipples the size of a man’s finger. Across the corral, a young elephant ambled into view, head bobbing, trunk curling, ears flapping, trundling along as fast as its tree-trunk legs could carry it.