The situation for wild animals in drought-ravaged Tsavo West National Park in Kenya is heartbreaking and critically urgent.
The Tsavo ecosystem is a naturally hot, semi-arid region of southeastern Kenya, but in recent years dry has turned to drought because of rising temperatures and repeated failed rainy seasons. Water has been desperately needed for several years but funding has always been a severe challenge.
We are raising funds to drill a life-saving waterhole that will hydrate thousands of animals struggling through lingering drought in the region.
But we have not yet reached our fundraising target.
We are deeply concerned for the animals awaiting our urgent help.
Wild animals are visibly emaciated, exhausted and desperately competing for the last remaining water sources.
And for mothers with young calves, every single day is a fight to stay alive.
When riverbeds run dry in Kenya’s Tsavo West National Park, animals like this elephant pay the ultimate price. Prolonged drought has made water a matter of life and death. Source: Reuters (top) and Mwalua Wildlife Trust (bottom)
They desperately need your help.
For the region’s 14,000 elephants especially, who need 53 gallons (200 liters) of water per day, the situation is extremely serious.
Our partner, the Mwalua Wildlife Trust, says the drought continues to grip the region with brutal force. Water remains desperately scarce, grazing is almost gone and countless animals are starving as competition for survival intensifies.
Elephants, buffalo, giraffe, zebra and critically endangered rhino are all struggling to survive lingering drought conditions in Kenya.
Many are growing weaker by the day. Some are collapsing from exhaustion and dehydration before they can even reach water, having walked for endless hours and days in search of sustenance that does not exist.
Without emergency support, more animals will die.
What was once a reliable water source has been reduced to a fraction of its former size by prolonged drought. Source: Mwalua Wildlife Trust
Your donation will help get water flowing to the animals before it’s too late.
Please make an urgent donation today. Every contribution, no matter its size, could help save the life of an elephant calf, a giraffe, a zebra or another desperate animal fighting to survive under the scorching African sun.
