Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment

 This report is one of Good News! The good news has all been made possible through your most greatly appreciated support of our medical fund.

The medical treatment the injured wildebeest, Short-tail,  received has finally healed his wound. Although he has a very slight limp he is doing well and has regained the weight that he lost during the time that his terrible injury was healing. We have also provided supplement feed for him and the other wildebeest and zebra during the dry months before our recent rains.

Our super exciting good news is that a new male zebra “Milkyway” has arrived. He was a stray that had been trying habituate with domestic horses on a sugar cane farm near Eshowe (200 km away) He needed to be moved to a suitable Wildlife Reserve and Suni-Ridge was the perfect place for a forever home! After waiting some months for a relocation permit, our Veterinary Surgeon and his assistant tranquilized him and he was expertly loaded into a wildlife transport trailer and transported to our Wildlife Sanctuary.

We named him Milkyway after the Milk bush which is the meaning of Eshowe in Zulu. Milkyway has settled in well. He is a gentle and friendly young male zebra and much loved. He approaches us if we call him from the fields or bush. He has had to discover all the terrain, new wildlife paths, animals and birds, water holes, and biodiversity of the Sanctuary. He has been seen grazing with nyala, impala, wildebeest, and mongoose, red duiker, baboon and of course the other zebra have all been seen with him. Our medical fund contributed to the Veterinary costs for Milkyway.

We have not had any poaching recently and no injuries from snares. Our medical fund has assisted with various preventative measures such as employing day and night guards to patrol. The work that this provides for our Wildlife Guards is greatly appreciated by them as each worker financially assists up to 10 extended family members. 

 We still have many summits to reach and during the following months, we hope to raise enough funds to build the much-needed boma and secure medical treatment stables. Your ongoing support is greatly appreciated and truly important. Thank you for caring!

Thank you all, once again for your support! We continue to work tirelessly to maintain and protect the biodiversity of our Sanctuary, and most importantly we continue to provide the very best care for every animal that calls our Sanctuary home!

Dear Friends,

Thank you all for your support! With Covid-19 and lockdown, we continue to work tirelessly to maintain and protect the biodiversity of our Sanctuary, and most importantly we continue to provide the very best care for every animal that calls our Sanctuary home!

Your support of our medical fund has been greatly appreciated. It has helped with the following:

• To treat “Short Tail” the wildebeest who’s injured foot became badly infected. Should he not have been treated, we would have had to euthanize him to prevent him from suffering an agonizing death. After his treatment, his wound is healing slowly, but each day we see an improvement.

• A tragic event happened recently when we had a dreadful insurgence with poachers that set up many snares in the bush. We were able to cut the wire noose from both a mother wildebeest and her calf, but sadly we eventually had to bring in help to euthanize the mother as she had succumbed to stress that caused paralysis. The little female calf survived but she called incessantly for her mother for days. She is now doing well again and grazing with the zebra and the territorial wildebeest bull that is her father. We are taking urgent steps to upgrade our security and need all the support possible for this.

• Recently we have experienced a very dry time and we have been supplementing our animal’s grazing with wildlife pellets. Although we feel that they are being "spoilt" (apart from injured Short Tail who needs to uphold his best immunity) we feel this is ok as we like to know that all our wildlife are settled and doing well during the sudden cold spell that we are now experiencing in our area.   

Thank you once again for your support and wishing you the very best health and safety.