During August, the SWT/KWS Tsavo Mobile Veterinary Unit attended to a total of 17 wildlife cases. These included the successful rescue of an elephant calf and mother who had fallen into a cesspit, and the removal of a wire snare from the trunk of an elephant calf ( read update ). The team also assisted a bull elephant with wire snares tangled around its leg, and treating a bull with a spear wound. On 24th August the Unit was called to assist ex orphan elephant Naipoki who had returned to the Sheldrick Trust Voi Reintegration Unit with an arrow wound. 4 poisoned lionesses were attended to on a number of occasions during the month and a beisa oryx and a male eland in Nguuni Wildlife sanctuary were also helped by the team.