Elephant from The Pinnawela Orphanage walk their daily route down towards river to bathe. Kegalle, Sri Lanka.

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Elephants from The Pinnawela Orphanage walk their daily route down towards river to bathe. Established in 1975 by the Department of Wildlife near the small town of Kegalle, in the Kandy Region of Sri Lanka lies the 25-acre Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage. The Orphanage is the home for about 60 elephants, out of which many are baby elephants that are found abandoned and orphaned in the wild (often displaced from their natural habitat by development projects) other elephants are found diseased or wounded and the Orphanage is instrumental in their recovery.

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Location: Kegalle, Sri Lanka
Photo credit: © Andrew Aitchison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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