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Elephants in Heaven (Hardcover)
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Elephants in Heaven (Hardcover)
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Because elephants are pachyderms, a combination of two Greek roots
meaning "thick skin," one might think that nothing bothers them and
that they lead quiet, safe lives. Nothing could be further from the
truth: elephants have been hunted and killed for their ivory tusks
since antiquity. And people often ignore the calves left behind,
who must now live out their lives as traumatized and fearful
orphans. Wildlife photographer Joachim Schmeisser made it his
mission to document the story of these abandoned baby elephants.
Through his sponsorship of elephants, he came into contact with the
David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, the world's largest and most
successful rescue and rehabilitation operation for orphaned
elephants, headquartered in Nairobi. Professional veterinary
technicians bottle feed the elephant calves until they are old
enough to locate their own food. By living together with older
elephant calves, they also learn the social rules governing
elephant herds. After this phase is complete, the elephants are
taken to one of the Trust's rehabilitation stockades before they
are released back into the wild. Joachim Schmeisser followed
numerous elephants through the entire process and captured
fascinating pictures from their arrival at the nursery all the way
to their release back into the wild. Elephants in Heaven provides a
visual record of how these traumatized elephants are raised in a
place that is truly heavenly for them, offering a compelling
behind-the-scenes look inside an elephant nursery. The touching
animal portraits also convey the devastating consequences of
poaching, because for Joachim Schmeisser, it's about "beauty,
fragility, tran- sience, mindfulness, and about dignity and the
equal standing of each individual."
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