For over 25 years Kenya-born Daphne Sheldrick lived and worked alongside her husband, David, a naturalist and founding warden of Tsavo East National Park.

The trust is a leader in conservation efforts to help save the remaining African elephant populations in grave danger from the illegal ivory trade.

[5] The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Elephant Orphanage is located in Nairobi National Park and is open to the public for one hour every day.

The Tsavo mobile veterinary unit, based at the KWS headquarters in Voi, covers an extensive area, including the greater Tsavo Conservation Area as well as the Chyulu Hills National Park and the Shimba Hills National Reserve.

[12] The Amboseli mobile veterinary unit operates out of Amboseli National Park and services the Southern Conservation Area encompassing Kajiado, Namanga, Magadi, Lake Natron as well as the Southern Tsavo West area including Lake Jipe, an ecosystem famous for large number of elephants.

[14] With limited rainfall in the arid Tsavo Conservation Area, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has built fourteen boreholes and windmills to enhance the dry season productivity, as well as instigating temporary water-relief programs to relieve suffering.