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How cute! Mumbaikars adopt orphaned wild animals
Updated On: 31 July, 2016 01:50 PM IST | | Anju Maskeri
<p>Mumbaikars have been opening their hearts and purses to orphaned wild animals such as elephants, lions, tigers and spotted deer</p>

At the beginning of every month, Kadambari and Rushin Mehta wait for an email from The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) in Kenya. They are all smiles as they go through the blog post and pictures of the ‘child’ they adopted in December — Baby Ngilai, an orphaned elephant calf rescued from a well in the Ngilai area of Kenya in March last year. “He was part of a group of elephants that had fallen into a well. While watering their livestock, the villagers spotted the injured and exhausted calf and alerted the Trust,” says Kadambari, a freelance digital marketing consultant. While the Trust managed to save him, the others with him couldn’t make it. “Baby Ngilai was just three weeks old when we rescued him. He was wounded and we were worried for him,” says Rob Brandford, Executive Director of DSWT.


