Meet some of Africa’s most troubled youngsters. A company of elephants that are being raised by humans are now on a challenging journey back into the wild. Jonathan Scott and Michaela Strachan gain unprecedented access to the only elephant orphanage in Africa, to follow their progress over a year. For a baby elephant, family life is everything and losing your mother is the worst possible starting point. Elephant Diaries captures on film for the first time, the dramatic rescue and reintroduction of fragile young elephant orphans by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. Michaela meets the orphaned baby elephants brought to the Nairobi nursery for 24 hour intensive care. The leader of the nursery herd is an elephant named Wendi, now two years old. She was brought to the trust soon after her birth, and although she’s still a baby herself, she’s now helping other vulnerable orphans cope with loosing their wild families. At around two years old the young elephants can begin to look after themselves, and join other young orphans in Tsavo National Park for the second stage of their journey back into the wild. Jonathan follows the older elephant herd on Tsavo’s vast plains. At 10 years old, Emily is the matriarch of 30 orphans that have graduated from the nursery. She is reaching a cross-road in her life and is nearly ready to take her final step back into the wild. With the responsibilities of leading the large orphan herd Jonathan is trying to find out if she’ll go, but first he needs to meet her, be accepted by her, and be allowed into her herd. Back at Nairobi, an emergency call alerts the nursery to the plight of a motherless baby elephant in Samburu which is being aggressively rejected by other elephants. Head keeper Edwin flies off on a mercy mission and after a dramatic rescue, the little orphan, now named Naserian, is rushed back to the nursery. Not all elephants survive the trauma of their rescue and no-one knows if she’ll survive the