All her life she tried to be a good person. Many times, however, she failed. For after all, she was only human. She wasn't a dog.
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In Umani Springs, everyone now walks at ‘Mwezi pace’!
At just five days old, our tiniest girl can’t travel very far or very fast, but the herd is very, very happy to slow down to her baby speed.
Every baby born to a rewilded orphan is a miracle, but that miracle is compounded for our ex-orphan mum, Murera: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n…
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People putting “I Voted” stickers on Alex Pretti’s memorial is exactly the kind of tribute that matters. Not thoughts and prayers. Action.
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Word travels fast in the forest. Baby Mwezi’s first day out with the Umani herd was a great success!
Murera gave birth in the middle of the night, tucked up in her stockade, but word still got out quickly in Kibwezi Forest. So quickly that, come dawn, all the wild-living orphans were waiting to meet her.
In case you missed yesterday’s news: bathed in the light of a near-full moon, Murera gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. She chose to deliver in her stockade, the place that has been her night-time sanctuary all these years. The whole thing was seamless, and mother and baby are both marvellous.
More to come, but we wanted to share Mwezi’s first moments with you. (Her name means ‘moon’ in Swahili!)
In the meantime, reacquaint yourself with Murera’s miraculous story: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o…
Mel retweeted
If you’re voting red up and down the ballot because you think children are getting gender transition surgeries at school, you’re a fucking idiot.
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OUR 44th president. Let's finish what he started and guarantee healthcare for every American. 🇺🇸
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Just hours old, and tiny Chili is already getting a tour of Ithumba.
It started with introductions to the Keepers who raised her mother, Chyulu, followed by a tour of the troughs that help sustain her herd through the dry season. In elephant society, knowledge is passed from mother to daughter. When Chyulu lost her mother, we stepped in to raise her. Now she is living wild and teaching her own growing family how the world works.
This scene has been years in the making. After years in our care, Chyulu has adapted to the wild, joined a herd, mated and nurtured new life. Your support makes it all possible: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/d…
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Only hours old, and already meeting her extended family. That includes you!
Meet Chili, a tiny wild-born calf. Her mother, Chyulu, is an orphan we rescued, raised and rewilded, and she brought her newborn to our Ithumba Unit to meet the people who raised her.
Chili is the 96th calf born to our ex-orphans that we know of! This is what your support makes possible. Thank you for being part of Chili’s story, and ours: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
Mel retweeted
It seems like we are experiencing a lot of health issues related to dirty water and air. We should set up some kind of a national center for preventing and controlling diseases to address this.
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The earth is just spinning through infinite darkness at 67,000 miles per hour and somehow it also made blueberries?? And laughing?? And the feeling of sun on your face?? What is this place. What a an absolute gift.
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I want a moon mission once per month for my mental health. It’s admittedly more expensive than the Wellbutrin, but also much more effective.
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Hi! I’m Rise!
About a week ago, I launched aboard the Artemis II mission with four of my besties. Since then, I have been serving a very important purpose aboard the Orion spacecraft… I float. (And I look cute.)
Today, I am taking over the Artemis social media accounts! -Rise
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I don’t really understand the maths it takes to send humans behind the Moon and bring them back safely. And the more I sit with that, the more it genuinely messes with my head even tho my love for physics and my knowledge of physics is astounding to a point
Somebody had to work out a path where the Moon’s gravity is pulling you in, the Earth is pulling you back, and you’re moving just fast enough and not slow enough not to get trapped by either. They had to figure out the exact angle to come back into Earth’s atmosphere too. Too steep, you burn up. Too shallow, you bounce off and drift into space. And they had to get all of that right at the same time, for real people sitting in a small metal capsule about 400k kilometres away from home.
Nothing in that system is standing still.
The Moon is moving.
The Earth is moving.
Even the Sun is pulling on everything. And still, some people looked at all of that motion, all of that chaos, and turned it into numbers you can follow. Go here.
Adjust here.
Come back here.
And unlike nepa light, it infact works.
There’s also that moment in the journey where the crew passes behind the Moon. No contact with Earth. No signal. Just silence, with a massive rock blocking everything they’ve ever known. The only reason they can stay calm in that moment is because someone, somewhere, did the maths and proved they’ll come out the other side.
I don’t know what it feels like to trust something that much. To put your life in an equation when you’re that far away from everything.
But I do know this for sure, whatever that level of thinking is, whatever it takes to reach it, it might be one of the most extraordinary things human beings have ever done...