At 6 a.m. during the morning of the 18th August, 2009, community folk from Rumuruti spotted a tiny baby elephant stuck in the mud in a swampy area of the drying Pesi river. There were no other elephants in the area, so the community alerted the Kenyan Wildlife Service who came to rescue the tiny newborn calf at 7 a.m., and alerted the Trust that yet another Rescue was required.