Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this June 5, 2013 file photo, Daphne Sheldrick, left, founder of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant orphanage, ...

Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick was decorated for her work in conservation by Queen Elizabeth II Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal ...

Daphne Sheldrick, a Kenyan wildlife conservationist who helped nurse, bathe and occasionally apply sunscreen to more than 230 orphaned elephants, and whose decades of work on their behalf made her one ...

Some of Daphne Sheldrick’s closest friends were animals. The daughter of a British farmer, Ms. Sheldrick fed a baby antelope named Bushy from a milk bottle every four hours. She grew up to be a ...

Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick, conservationist and founder of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT who passed away on Thursday evening on April 12, 2018 after a long battle with breast cancer. [Photo: ...

For the first two years of life, a baby elephant needs about 42 gallons of its mother's milk to survive each week. For orphaned elephants that lose their parents to poaching or drought, figuring out ...

Daphne Sheldrick, a wildlife conservationist who saved hundreds of orphaned elephants in Africa, work chronicled in documentaries like “Born to Be Wild,” died Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya. She was 83.

On Wednesday "Nightly News" aired a report from special correspondent Chelsea Clinton featuring naturalist Daphne Sheldrick (above), who has been working for decades to preserve Kenya's wildlife. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Daphne Sheldrick, a Kenyan wildlife conservationist who helped nurse, bathe and occasionally apply sunscreen to more than 230 orphaned elephants, and whose ...

Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick D.B.E dedicated her life to making the world a little kinder to animals. During her over 60 years protecting the world’s creatures, particularly threatened species in Africa, ...