Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick was decorated for her work in conservation by Queen Elizabeth II Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this June 5, 2013 file photo, Daphne Sheldrick, left, founder of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant orphanage, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NAIROBI (Reuters) - Dame Daphne Sheldrick, a well-known Kenyan conservationist who helped protect the East African country's ...

Daphne Sheldrick, a Kenyan wildlife conservationist who helped nurse, bathe and occasionally apply sunscreen to more than 230 orphaned elephants, and whose decades of work on their behalf made her one ...

Until the 1970s, orphaned baby elephants rarely survived in human care. Wildlife rangers could rescue calves that were separated from their mothers by poaching, drought, or other causes, but feeding ...

Dame Daphne Sheldrick, pioneer of elephant conservation and founder of a Kenyan orphanage that has rescued and raised more than 200 elephants, died last Thursday at age 83. In a statement, her ...

Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick, conservationist and founder of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT who passed away on Thursday evening on April 12, 2018 after a long battle with breast cancer. [Photo: ...

On Wednesday "Nightly News" aired a report from special correspondent Chelsea Clinton featuring naturalist Daphne Sheldrick (above), who has been working for decades to preserve Kenya's wildlife. The ...

Dame Daphne Sheldrick, a well-known Kenyan conservationist who helped protect the East African country’s wildlife for 60 years, has died, her organization announced on Friday, describing her as a ...

Daphne Sheldrick, a Kenyan wildlife conservationist who helped nurse, bathe and occasionally apply sunscreen to more than 230 orphaned elephants, and whose decades of work on their behalf made her one ...