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The Guardian Warriors of Kenya

69 images Created 31 May 2017

 
The Reteti Sanctuary — the first community-owned elephant and rhino sanctuary in East Africa — provides a safe place for injured elephants and rhinos to heal and a home for orphaned elephants and rhinos affected by poaching and the ivory trade. Where possible, Reteti focuses on rescue and return, with the goal of reuniting the calves with their mothers within 48 hours. Launched in 2016, the Sanctuary has already saved one black rhino and more than two dozen elephants.
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  • Local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya,  rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs, giraffe, kudu, gerenuk, and other species back  into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Sarara camp, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Sarara camp, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Sarara camp, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Sarara camp, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Joseph Lolngojine and Rimland Lemojong, keepers at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary (@r.e.s.c.u.e), put a cloth over the eyes of an orphaned elephant named Kinya to calm her after she fell into a well near Sera in Northern Kenya, February 22, 2017. Reteti, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy, is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild.  (Photo By Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Naitemu Letur pushes a jug of water back to her manyatta. "Before, we would walk for hours every day just to get water. Sometimes it was not safe but now we have plenty of water near our homes and this has made our lives more secure. " The Northern Rangelands Trust in Northern Kenya  is a group of conservanices that make conservation a self-sustaining proposition—financially and socially—by providing water, health care, education and jobs for the local community through responsible tourism and complementary agro-pastoralism. Ths makes the community deeply invested in the effort’s success. In earlier conservation efforts, threatened forests and endangered species were protected by uniformed guards. In the NRT, they are protected by women and school children, who have a vested interest in a healthy environment because they benefit directly. Rather than something that has to be guarded from local communities, the environment becomes a source of sustainable economic activity for those communities.
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Sarara camp, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Rescued elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary are looked after by local keepers from the Samburu, part of the Namunyak Community Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Reteti is the first-ever community-owned and -run elephant orphanage in Africa. Their goal is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce orphaned or abandoned elephant calfs into the wild. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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