Elsa Wildlife Foundation

Japanese: エルザ野生動物基金 - えるざやせいどうぶつききん
Elsa Wildlife Foundation

…She was also an accomplished painter, producing many masterpieces of folklore, flora and fauna, most of which are now owned by the Kenyan state. In her later years, she devoted herself to conservation activities, founding the Elsa Wildlife Foundation and conducting experiments in breeding wild animals, producing works such as Pippa the Pig (1969). In January 1980, she was killed by a servant at a camp in the Shaba Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya during an experiment to reintroduce a leopard into the wild. …

*Some of the terms mentioned in the "Elsa Wildlife Foundation" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…画家としても優れ,民族画,動植物画の傑作が多く,大部分はケニアの国有財産になっている。晩年は自然保護活動に傾倒,エルザ野生動物基金を設立するとともに,野獣の飼育実験も行い,《いとしのピッパ》(1969)などの作品がある。1980年1月にケニア北部のシャバ野生生物保護区のキャンプでヒョウの野生復帰実験中,使用人によって殺害された。…

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