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Apr 12, 2006

"As long as Nature is seen as something outside ourselves; frontiered and foreign, separate, it is lost both to us and in us. It follows that to achieve a society in harmony with Nature, we must be guided by respect for it." --Sir Crispin Tickell

Elephant Orphanage

Stories about an orphanage are bound to yank at your heartstrings. The one 60 Minutes recently told is no exception. All these orphans are from East Africa, they were all abandoned when they were very young -- and they're all elephants! A couple of decades ago, there were about 100,000 elephants in Kenya. Now there are about a quarter as many, largely due to poachers. The orphanage gets distress calls -- that a baby elephant is on its own, and it only survives a few days without its mother. Amazingly, after some years of awesome care, one day, each elephant just wanders off into the wild and stays there.