| News |
| July 2010 - Building of Wildlife Laboratory and Clinic |
| In late 2009 we received approval from Zimbabwe National Parks and Management Authority to go ahead with our plans for building the Wild Horizons Trust Wildlife Laboratory and Clinic. This facility wil enable to the Trust to provide a better quality of care to injured, abandoned, snared, and orphaned wildlife. Development of the lab is moving along swiftly and we hope to open by mid year, just in time for the peak darting and rescue season. Click here for more info and to see the site plans! |
| Update on Lulu |
Our youngest elephant orphan, Lulu recently turned two at the end of March 2010. We are now beginning to wean Lulu off of the milk formula we supplement her diet with. Lulu has done very well over the past year, and has grown significantly. She is a boiterous young elephant and she has been a success at being integrated into a social herd. |
| Using Chili as a deterrent for problem elephant |
| The residents in and around Victoria Falls are used to seeing elephant in town this time of year. However, this year the sheer number of elephant that are coming into the high density areas and some of the rural areas around town is unprecedented. Unfortunately, the elephant are not moving away from the town when normal techniques are employed to try and scare the elephant away. In an effort to try and move the elephant away from human settlements before either a person or elephant gets hurt or killed, WHWT is working together with National Parks using chili pepper guns to move the elephant. Click here to read more! |
| Poaching of Ivory-DNA mapping |
With ivory poaching on the rise throughout Africa, WHWT is taking a proactive roll in assisting with taking samples of commercially poached elephant on the ground. These samples are then sent to to Dr. Samuel Wasser at the Center for Conservation Biology, at the University of Washington, in the U.S. Dr. Wasser had found a way of extracting DNA from ivory that is siezed, and mapping that DNA back to a Region in Africa....Click here to learn more about this project |
| Darting in 2010 |
| So far in 2010, the Wild Horizons Wildlife Trust has worked together with National Parks and VFPAU to dart nine warthogs, three buffalo, one elephant, two impala, and one Painted Dog all of which were snared or injured...click here for more info |
| Release of Domesticated Elephant |
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It gives us great pleasure to announce that in the next few weeks we will be assisting with the release of Wild Horizon's male elephant “Jack” and "Rastas" back into the wild... Click here for more info |