So do the people who care for them. Bearing Weight is a podcast about the untold stories of elephants and the veterinarians, caregivers, researchers, advocates, and sanctuary leaders around the world who have dedicated their lives to them.
These are honest, grounded conversations about what it really takes to put elephants first — the science, the sacrifice, the hard-won knowledge, and the quiet, daily work that rarely makes headlines.
At a time when elephant welfare organizations often work in isolation, Bearing Weight is a space for their voices to gather, so their work can be found, understood, and supported.
To take this shot, Federico Veronesi parked at a waterhole in Kenya’s Solio Game Reserve, lay down flat on the floor of his vehicle and waited. Then a herd of southern white rhinos walked in.
Look at the length of those horns. In a place where poachers still hunt rhinos for their horns, horns this long show that this sanctuary works.
Solio was Kenya’s first rhino sanctuary. It has bred critically endangered black rhinos and moved them into other protected areas across the country. It also brought southern white rhinos back to Kenya.
Protecting wildlife also means protecting the places where it lives. That’s why I plant trees. 🌳
Federico, this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year Grand Title winner, is showing this image at London’s Natural History Museum. Go see it if you can!
🫒🍉🇵🇸 Palestine has lost one of its most iconic painters, Sliman Mansour, who passed away in August in Jerusalem.
Mansour immortalised Palestine’s memory and steadfastness in his art, rendering eternal the struggle of a people living under the grip of the dystopian military occupation by Israel.
