An unusual collaboration to save an elephant trapped in mud in Kenya. Chinese construction workers together with Kenyan environmentalists worked together to free the young pachyderm trapped for 12 hours in a mud pit near the town of Makindu, bordering the Chyulu Hills National Park.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him An unusual collaboration for rescue an elephant trapped in mud in Kenya. Chinese construction workers together with Kenyan environmentalists worked together to free the young pachyderm trapped for 12 hours in a mud pit near the town of Makindu, bordering the Chyulu Hills National Park. It only took a digger and about five minutes of work to open one side of the pit and force the elephant out. About 15 rangers of the Kenya Wildlife Service they then monitored the elephant, which escaped to safety away from human settlements. The most interesting side of this happy ending story is that the rescue vehicle used was provided a Chinese construction company, engaged in the construction of a railway nearby. A really interesting event, considering the involvement of the Asian country in the ivory trade in Africa.
"A very emotional scene which I witnessed a few days ago. This elephant fell into a hole in hostile territory. Hostile because the community there sees elephants as a pest that destroys crops. They wanted to kill it and eat it but the Kenya Wildlife Service eventually managed to disperse the crowd of hundreds of people. Luckily there was a Chinese construction company that was building a railway, kind enough to lend a free digger to save the poor elephant, ”writes on his Facebook page Jeremy Goss, a biologist who was there and made the video and photos. . Off the Grid publication - Jeremy Goss photography. Poaching, remember The Huffington Post, He had a enormous burden on African elephants in the last decades. An estimated 35.000 elephants are killed in Africa every year. And the researchers warned that with these rhythms the pachyderms they could become extinct within a few decades. Most of theillegal ivory ends up in China, where a growing number of wealthy citizens see ivory objects as a status symbol.
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