Nairobi Animal Orphanage

The Nairobi Animal Orphanage is located in the Nairobi National Park. It serves as a treatment and rehabilitation center for wild animals. The Orphanage hosts lions, cheetahs, hyenas, jackals, serval cats, rare Sokoke cats, warthogs, leopards, various monkeys, baboons and buffalo. Various birds can also be viewed including parrots, guinea fowls, crowned cranes and ostriches.

The orphanage is a wider part of the Nairobi National Park – the first to be established in East Africa on the 16th of December 1946. The park makes Nairobi a special capital as it is the only city in the world where wild animals live naturally in the wild transforming Nairobi into Africa’s prime safari capital.

Over the years, exotic animals’ species not necessarily falling in the categories mentioned above have found their way into the animal orphanage. Problem animals have also been restrained here. Nairobi Animal Orphanage is an important educational and training facility, which is housed in the only wildlife-protected area in a capital city in the world is often home to more than 20 different animals and bird species.