Naledi
https://www.vulcanproductions.com/our-work/naledi
Naledi tells the incredible, true-life story of a baby elephant who’s born into a rescue camp in the wilderness of Botswana. When she’s only one month old, a fateful twist takes her mother’s life – and it’s suddenly up to the keepers who look after her herd to save her life. Camp scientist Mike Chase knows the stakes. As he launches the most ambitious census ever of African elephants across the continent, he and his team of elephant handlers face an even harder task – helping baby Naledi survive. Now, he must race to defend an entire species while struggling to save a single life.
To succeed, Naledi’s makeshift band of human mothers will shelter her, nurse her, and show her the importance of family – of both two legs and four. Her unforgettable caretakers come to her rescue: delighting in her antics when she’s well, working frantically to keep her alive when she’s on the brink. Never before has a story of humans and elephants been captured with such closeness and tenderness. Naledi’s story mirrors her species’ fight for survival. Across the African continent, Chase’s team will struggle against the impossible – from poachers’ poisoned arrows to the unrelenting wave of human development that puts elephants under constant pressure.
Throughout, this one elephant’s story remains both intimate and epic, a journey of tragedy and triumph that inspires laughter and tears, and that reveals the remarkable inner life of an animal as complex as any human, and as iconic as Africa itself.
