The Baby Elephants’ Homecoming Begins

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In Tsavo National Park, in southeastern Kenya, a moving phenomenon is taking place far from the public eye. Once decimated by poaching, the elephant population is coming back to life thanks to an extraordinary rehabilitation project led by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. This documentary follows, over the course of a year, a group of orphaned elephant calves rescued, bottle-fed, and slowly prepared for a return to the wild.

Across the vast arid plains, acacia forests, and scarce waterholes of northern Tsavo, a region long shunned by elephants, the young pachyderms learn, step by step, to become independent. Guided by their dedicated keepers and former orphans who have reintegrated into the wild, they face the challenges, social rituals, and unique language of elephant life.

But the miracle reaches a new dimension when wild elephants, absent for decades, begin to reappear. A new bond is forming between the orphans, their older companions, and elephants returning from a forgotten past.

The Return of the Elephants
A film by Peter Breckmann