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View this email in your browser  Make your holiday gift count today. Help us bring milk formula, food and care to four rhino orphans in South Africa.  Please help by making a donation now! Share Tweet Forward Share Dear friends, The holiday season is a time of joy and celebration, but for six-week-old rhino calf Hercules, this time of year has brought nothing but unimaginable horror. Credit: Care For Wild Orphaned, attacked by hyenas and left for dead, this poor infant is fighting for his life at the Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary (CFW) in South Africa. Hercules is not alone. Recently, CFW has taken in four orphaned rhino calves – a sharp increase after more than a year without any new rescues in its care.  These helpless little rhinos desperately need your help this holiday season.  Please give four orphaned rhino calves the gift of special milk formula, food and life-saving care this festive season.   Please help by making a donation now! Credit: Care For Wild Separated from his mother at just three weeks old, Hercules was attacked by a clan of hyenas and was left severely wounded and nearly dead. As you read this, Hercules is receiving round-the-clock intensive care at the CFW ICU. This tiny, fragile calf also needs a regular supply of nourishing special milk formula – vital for his recovery.  While little Hercules is in critical condition, three other orphaned rhino calves are also desperately hoping for the gift of your compassion this holiday season…  Skye and Talesi, both 18-month-old orphans, are struggling with the loss of their mothers. Calves orphaned at over a year of age often struggle to adjust to life without their moms, as they usually stay by their side for up to four years. Those that are unable to join other rhino herds can become so depressed, they refuse to eat, severely threatening their health and even their lives. Long-term CFW resident, Diana (back, center) is a loving foster mother to infant orphaned calves. Here, she is comforting Talesi and Skye Credit: Care For Wild Finally, there’s sweet Riri – a three-month-old critically endangered black rhino orphan whose recovery is especially delicate. Black rhinos are more sensitive and intelligent, and need much more intensive care than white rhinos. Like Hercules, Riri needs special milk formula to recover and survive.  With the surge of orphaned rhinos in their care, together with Hercules’ intensive and expensive recovery, our partner is struggling to cope.  Together, we can ensure that these vulnerable rhino infants are fed throughout the holidays, freeing up funds to support Hercules on his healing journey. This holiday season, give a life-changing gift to precious orphaned rhino calves: $15 (£12) will feed an orphaned rhino for a day.  $105 (£82) will feed an orphaned rhino for a week.  $450 (£353) will feed an orphaned rhino for a month. Please help by making a donation now! Credit: Care For Wild It is vitally important to help these rhinos because they are so endangered that every single life makes a difference in the fight to save them from extinction. It is estimated that only one in 10 orphaned rhinos in South Africa is discovered in time to be saved. Tragically, 90% will die alone in the wild.  ‘Tis the season of giving, and today, we ask you from the bottom of our hearts to spare a thought for four orphaned rhino calves who have lost everything – their precious, loving mothers, and the comfort of their natural homes in the wild. In the spirit of generosity, we hope you will give these vulnerable rhino orphans the chance to heal, grow and eventually be released back into protected wild spaces where they belong.  Please donate to Animal Survival International today and help us bring milk, food and life-saving care to orphaned baby rhinos this festive season. Please help by making a donation now! Saving animals and the planet, Campaign Director Animal Survival International P.S. Orphaned rhino calves Hercules, Skye, Talesi and Riri are desperately hoping for your compassion this holiday season. Please help us bring them the comfort and love they so deserve by donating to their survival right away.  Did you know? 97.5% of Africa's black rhinos were killed between the 1960s and the mid-1990s, leaving just 2,500 left in the wild. Thanks to intensive conservation efforts, there are over 6,000 alive today - but black rhinos are still critically endangered. Subscribe to our newsletter! Banner credit: Care For Wild Please share this appeal with your colleagues, friends and family. Share Tweet Forward Share