Elephants in the East

Elephants in the East is written by Lucy Daniels.

Elephants in the East happens in Kenya.  It is a story about the poaching of elephants. It is part of the series of Animal Ark. In this story Mandy, a girl who loves animals wants to save a mother elephant from getting poached for ivory.

Mandy and her best friend James have gone to Africa. Mandy’s parents Adam and Emily Hope are vets. Mandy and her parents and her best friend James stay in England but have come to Africa for a holiday. In Africa they are staying in Kenya, in a wildlife reserve. In the reserve, they are staying with a scientist call Levina.

One day Levina gets a call from one of the wardens of the reserve. He says that a vet from Mombasa who has specialized in elephants is going to fly tomorrow to treat an elephant named Tina who has gotten attacked by poachers.

Mandy and James are eager to help save Tina the elephant and, so they go with their parents and the vet from Mombasa to see her and help her. They manage to treat Tina.

Tina has got a baby named Evie. After Tina had gotten attacked by the poachers there was no sign of the baby.

Mandy and James decide to stay with the wardens to look for Evie.  There are not able to find her by dusk.  Mandy and James start getting worried for Evie. How will Mandy and James find little Evie?

In this book you learn all about elephant poaching in Africa and you also learn some elephant facts. In this book you also learn to respect animals like Mandy who protected the elephants till the last.

Elephants are poached for their ivory, but they are also poached sometimes for their meat. There are 40,000 elephant in India and 500,000 elephants left in Africa. Ivory is a good material for carving. Ivory has a mellow colour, close grained texture and pleasing smoothness. This is why people like ivory.

If you want to know more on the poaching of elephants click here