Essex conservationist wins BAFTA honour for elephant work

 

(Posted 26th October 2026)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

Emma Palmer, Echo News (U.K.), October 25, 2026
After poachers killed her mother, Chamilandu was a traumatised calf unlikely to survive alone. Last year, she gave birth to her second calf in the wild, surrounded by elephants rather than human carers. For Colchester-born conservationist Rachael Murton, who helped save her nearly two decades ago, it proved years of work had paid off. The fields and hedgerows of rural Essex are a long way from Zambia’s elephant-strewn wilderness.
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