12 orphaned elephants reintroduced into wild in Botswana

GABORONE, June 5 (Xinhua) -- At least 12 orphaned elephants have been reintroduced into the wild, after spending years under care at Elephant Havens, an orphanage center in the northern part of Botswana.

Akanyang Mosabata, the senior elephant handler at the orphanage center, on Wednesday told Xinhua in an interview on the phone that the elephants were abandoned as babies when they were not able to survive on their own.