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Rescued orphaned elephant highlights Nigeria's conservation fight

An orphan baby forest elephant rescued after wandering out of Nigeria's Okomu National Park is being raised by wildlife carers from the conversationist NGO ANI in the hope of returning him to the wild, highlighting efforts to protect one of the country's last remaining elephant populations. The breed, smaller and more elusive than their savannah cousins, are endangered and their population has collapsed in recent decades largely because of habitat loss and poaching. The National Park Service of Nigeria also played a part in this tiny calf's rescue.

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00:00Oh, the number of days. Like I said, he eats eight times in a day.
00:12We are supposed to be like a mother to him.
00:15So whatever the mother will be doing with him in the wild,
00:19we also try to do it with him by feeding him and also trying to play with him also.
00:30Oh, this is me a second.
01:06Okumu is critical for conservation in Nigeria as a whole.
01:10Because in Nigeria as a whole, we have an estimated population of about 200 elephants.
01:16So on a small ecosystem like this, Housing 40 is a huge number and it needs to be protected at
01:23all costs.
01:30Okay.
01:35Okay.
01:53The baby elephant has to take two liters of this
01:57per meal and we have to prepare it fresh and we do this around the clock and we
02:04give him every 33 hours and which means it takes 60 liters of this body and
02:11because we have to give him every 33 hours we don't really get much sleep
02:17like that not everybody can do this and it's it's the feeling is just not it's
02:32just different and I'm happy to I was happy to take the job and I'm still happy
02:38doing it because I know I'm I'm working to preserve what what we have left and
02:46seeing him also eating and playing is part of the joy
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