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Telling a story with nine images

Telling a story with nine images

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Telling a story with nine images

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- In February of 2017, I found myself standing on the end of an airstrip in a remote part of northern Kenya. It was a hot, warm day and I was actually feeling pretty nervous because on this airplane, I knew was a three month old baby elephant. This was the middle of an elephant rescue, kind of a second stage of a three stage effort here. The elephant had been tranquilized from the ground with a dart, loaded onto this airplane, flown to this airstrip, where it was transferred to a truck. Here you can see the elephant is still unconscious. They're trying to cool it down by pouring water on it and just making sure that its secure before they start the long drive back to an elephant sanctuary located several miles away. When they got to the sanctuary, they unloaded the elephant from the truck into a stable. This was done just by lifting it up and moving it. There, they gave it a medical exam and then gave it a single…

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