A while ago, we asked for your help to feed 100 starving hippos along the Boteti River in Botswana’s Makgadikgadi National Park, where a brutal drought had decimated the animals’ food sources.
The desperately hungry hippos were eating elephant dung to survive – until we rushed them emergency food supplies thanks to your support.
Credit: Camelthorn Farmstead
Now, food and funds have run out – and the drought is only going to get worse over the next few months.
With no food and rain still months away, 120 suffering hippos are facing starvation once more. Please, help us feed them.
Right now, the drought is worse than ever in the park, and the hippos need YOU.
Drought has wiped out their food sources, and more hippos have arrived from other parts of the park desperately hungry.
We now have 120 hungry hippos to feed.
A donor reached out and offered to provide food for the worst part of the dry season, but this support has now fallen through, and we urgently need to raise funds to feed the animals. Itf we don’t, these hippos face starvation and will die.
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The consequences of drought have been devastating for wild animals, and with no sign of rains to come, more animals will die – unless we help.
Since 2022, northern parts of the country have been affected by a drought so severe, animals have dropped dead, infants have been left orphaned, and water-related human/wildlife conflict has left countless wild animals dead.
With your help, we are bringing relief in the form of boreholes, wellpoints and pumps to help save these thirst-ravaged animals. But while water can be pumped out of underground reservoirs, food must be shipped from outside the park – and until the rains come again, the hippos are relying on us and kind-hearted supporters like you for life-saving food.
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Not only are there more hippos than before, but they’re also so hungry that they’re eating more than usual to get enough nutrition. With the increased number of hippos and their higher food consumption, we need to provide more food than we originally anticipated. Despite being fed, the hippos are rapidly losing weight and struggling each day.
With so many desperate animals on the brink of starvation, we need at least 150 bales of hay each week for the next two months.
Without viable food sources, desperate hippos eat elephant dung to survive.
We cannot turn our backs on these painfully hungry hippos now, or everything we have already done will have been in vain.
Our partner, Camelthorn Farmstead, situated near a waterhole where the hippos gather, has been working hard to distribute the food donations they’ve received through your support. They have less than a week’s worth of food left for the hippos.
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With your support today, 120 starving hippos can receive life-saving food, saving them from slowly succumbing to starvation.
Please help us raise $7,000 (about £5,300) to feed 120 hippos for the next two months during the driest and most difficult time of the year. Your support will help keep these animals and their calves from suffering and starvation. Please, donate to make a difference right away.
120 hungry hippos are hoping for your compassion today. Please, donate as much as you possibly can, and help us save their lives.
