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very exciting tonight. We have a moment here of returning to the origins. We meet up with our old favorites, Ed and Eva. You've probably seen our journey since that 20-hour rescue back in March, when we pulled two cubs, Ed and Eva, from the ground and brought them to Wildlife Aid. They went through our orphan program. It works like this: After rescue, there are three stages in WAF. First we send them to home care where people bottle feed them at night. Then comes the second stage, they spend some time with us. And the final stage is when they end up at one of our orphan release sites. They've been here for about 9 weeks now, and I'm so happy that today we're finally opening the doors. This means we are preparing them for soft release. We
just open the door. Now they have the option to come and go as they please until the end of the season, until we stop seeing them, and then we can say our final goodbyes. So for a lot of people, it's a pretty emotional moment. You have all seen this journey, many people have participated in it, and it is a pleasure to be able to share it with you today. So, shall we do this? Good. This will probably be a bit of an anticlimactic moment. We'll open the gate and nothing will happen. But we plan to set up camera traps to try to film them coming and going over the next few weeks. So yes. Well, let's open it. It's quite nerve-wracking.
their confidence. And one thing remained unchanged. They stuck together. They were seen together every day. They never left each other. And eventually, together, they returned completely to the wild.
