My name’s Lucy Gavaghan, I’m eighteen now and delighted to have been campaigning for animal welfare for the last six years.

Elephants are one of the many species to have suffered terribly at the hands of humanity. Poaching has ripped apart populations and has taken the lives of thousands of innocent individuals. There is, however, hope for the elephants of the future.

The Elephant Orphanage Project was established in 2007 by the southern Kafue National Park and works tirelessly to rescue, rehabilitate and release orphaned elephants back into the wild. Illegal poaching activities are the main causes of a young elephant becoming orphaned... the mothers are killed, leaving the calves likely to starve to death. Poaching can also cause scattering of herds and the subsequent separation of a mother and her milk dependant calf.

The project is proving instrumental in the protection and preservation of these beautiful creatures and I’ll do all I can to support them.

The idea of a future in which children discover elephants only in the pages of history books is truly terrifying, but the hope presented by the orphanage project is so heartening.

A huge thank you to every single one of you for reading this and I really do hope you‘ll consider making a donation to such a beautiful cause.

As ever, much love,

Lucy xx