EXCLUSIVE: Wild weather results in wild rescue
Receding flood waters reveal a pitiful sight
SHE was hardly visible – just a wet little creature covered in mud, freezing cold, and not visibly breathing.
But caring community members in Ntambanana Reserve who spotted a giraffe calf while out walking on the flooded roads after the weekend storms, quickly alerted staff at the nearby Thula
Thula Wildlife Rehabiltion Centre (WRC) of the situation.
Staff there – who were only preparing to officially open the facility later this month – never hesitated.
With GPS coordinates in hand Thula Thula’s anti-poaching unit and WRC staff leaped into action.
‘When we arrived at the spot in which she was found, she was not moving.
‘She was caked in mud and was ice cold. We thought that she was dead,’ said Megan Richards, who worked with Vikki Horsley to provide first aid to their little ‘patient’.
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