Kiri
Dane (Donation of Milk) - 16th of February 2018
The
Udawalawa “Ath Athuru Sewana” (Elephant Transit Home) has been established by the
Department of Wild Life Conservation of Sri Lanka in 1995, for the welfare and
conservation of orphaned baby Elephants.
This
Elephant Transit Home (ETH) take cares of orphaned elephant calves-until they
are independent and able enough to be released back to the wild.
The
ETH is a lively place, where the elephant calves are fed once in every three
hours (7 times a day) on all 365 days of the years. The calves are fed human
baby milk formulae, and are allowed to roam about in a limited area close to
the waters, in-between their feeding sessions.
Currently
there are 52 claves of varying sizes and ages at the ETU. Some are yet infants
while some are collared with G.P.S. belts and are ready to be re-introduced to
the wild shortly. 25 to 30 “Lactogen´ milk powder packets and 3 to 5 NAN
(infant formula) milk powder packets are said to be needed for each of these
feeding session.
In
celebration of four of our birthdays in the month of February, we donated milk
powder packets needed for the ETH’s one feeding session, on the 16th
of February 2018.
We
are thankful to Mr. Wasantha and his staff at the ETH, including Ramesh for
been kind enough in showing us around the ETH, and especially the exclusive
opportunity of seen the back-stage animal holding areas, where other injured
and orphaned animal were been treated.
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| A Fishing Cat been treated at the backyard of the ETH |
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| A Barking Deer been treated at the backyard of the ETH |
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