Daphne Sheldrick
Dame Daphne Majorie Sheldrick DBE (* June 4, 1934 ; † April 12, 2018 ) was the founder of an elephant rearing station for orphaned young animals and two rehabilitation centers, from which the young animals are accustomed to life in the wild again.
She was born in 1934 as the daughter of a farmer in Kenya's Nakuru District and grew up with numerous animals on her parents' farm. At the age of three she received an orphaned wild animal from workers, which she raised and successfully accustomed to life in the wild again. She attended Nakuru Primary School and Kenya High School. She was second married to David Sheldrick , with whom she worked in Tsavo East National Park .
In the 1970s she achieved one of the greatest and most important successes in the artificial feeding of young elephants. Since elephants cannot tolerate cow's milk as a substitute food, it was impossible to keep orphaned young animals alive for a long time. Daphne Sheldrick developed a special milk mixture with vegetable fat.
The elephant breeding station she founded, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, in the immediate vicinity of Nairobi, is now world-famous. Since the establishment of the facility, the work of Daphne Sheldrick and her team has saved over 140 elephants and brought them back to life in the wild. Daphne Sheldrick is known as the "mother of the elephants" and was valued internationally as an expert. Among other numerous awards, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 2000 .
On December 31, 2005, Queen Elizabeth II proposed Daphne Sheldrick as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire , the first time in Kenya since independence in 1963.
Web links
- Literature by and about Daphne Sheldrick in the catalog of the German National Library
- Site of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leading elephant conservationist Daphne Sheldrick dies at 83. In: abcnews.com. April 13, 2018, accessed April 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Knights and Dames: SEL – SU at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sheldrick, Daphne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sheldrick, Daphne Majorie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan founder of an elephant breeding station |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1934 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 2018 |