Esperanza had a very tricky start into her life. After she was born she didn’t even have time to get her first and so important milk but was abandoned right away as her family was chased off. Lucky enough for her, she was found quickly and rangers stayed with her for 24 hrs to make…
Kaira was hit by a car and brought to Makoa Farm many years ago. Her back leg was so badly broken and the knee shattered that it had to be amputated. She was given a forever-home with the KiliCREW, as she isn’t able to survive in the wild being a three-legged cat. Despite having only…
On the 10th of November 2020, a Maasai man encountered a pack of feral dogs that chased a small zebra foal. Fortunately he was on a motorbike, so he very quickly jumped into action and drove the dogs away to rescue the foal. The foal, a little stallion, was in very bad stage and the…
Nobody knows why Kwanza was on her own, but she took the right decision and followed a herd of Masai cattle until they returned to their Masai Boma for the night. Being the first rescue of the new year, on 1st of January, the filly was named “Kwanza”. She really was tiny! She walked a…
It seems that Aura originally came from Arusha National Park. Still a juvenile, she must have stretched her wings and got caught by a gust of wind that carried her all the way to Arusha, some 20 km away, where she found herself on the top of a house. The wildlife authority, TAWA, was alerted…
A little calf had fallen into a well, full of water, in the Maswa Region (roughly between the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti) and couldn’t get back out. The herd had abandoned her after fruitless efforts trying to retrieve her. She was pulled from the well and had the dirty mud from the well cleaned…
At the beginning of July 2019, a male elephant calf, only a few days old, was found on its own at the border of Tanzania’s youngest National Park Burigi-Chato. The night before, a herd of elephant had ventured out of the park and into neighbouring plantations, but was chased off with help of the rangers….
On a sunny day in January 2019 villagers encountered a very nervous herd of elephants, not far from their home village. On closer inspection they detected the reason: a small elephant calf has fallen into an old well. The terrain was extremely rough and inaccessible to vehicles. Villagers couldn’t help the elephants as the herd…
At the end of 2017, Handsome, a big male cheetah, appeared out of the blue in a conservation area set aside by a sugar cane plantation in Moshi, named Namolok. He was spotted in alarming condition, with injuries inflicted by arrows and he even had become too critical to survive being darted by the KiliCREW….