{"id":56987,"date":"2018-06-14T12:53:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T12:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56987"},"modified":"2018-06-14T12:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T12:53:31","slug":"meet-the-man-who-drives-for-hours-every-day-to-save-wild-animals-from-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/06\/14\/meet-the-man-who-drives-for-hours-every-day-to-save-wild-animals-from-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man who drives for hours every day to save wild animals from drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had it not been for\u00a0Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua, drought would have claimed the lives of scores of animals in Kenya&#8217;s Tsavo West National Park.\u00a0Every day, Patrick delivers 3,000 gallons of fresh water to wild animals in his supreme water tanker\u00a0after driving for hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to Patrick, the situation is so bad at the park that the animals would die of dehydration if he failed to bring the water. He told The Dodo: \u201cWe aren\u2019t really receiving rain the way we used to. Last year, from June, there was no rain completely. So I started giving animals water because I thought, \u2018If I don\u2019t do that, they will die.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The animals that live there have got used to the routine way of life as they are seen waiting near the empty areas (where water will be provided) where Patrick unloads the water to keep the animals hydrated. Many animals have become his friends and they know him.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theyouth.in\/2018\/06\/01\/when-animals-were-dying-this-man-quenched-the-thirst-to-save-wildlife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/theyouth.in\/2018\/06\/01\/when-animals-were-dying-this-man-quenched-the-thirst-to-save-wildlife\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had it not been for\u00a0Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua, drought would have claimed the lives of scores of animals in Kenya&#8217;s Tsavo West National Park.\u00a0Every day, Patrick delivers 3,000 gallons of fresh water to wild animals in his supreme water tanker\u00a0after driving for hours. According to Patrick, the situation is so bad at the park that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}