Born to Be Wild

Steppenwolf musician, John Kay, and his wife Jutta, drew record crowds at Anacapa’s February First Thursday Breakfast Club as they spoke about their involvement with the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Both John and Jutta share a long-time love and commitment to preserving wild spaces. Together, they started the Maue-Kay Foundation, which works with the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to raise orphaned elephants, orangutans and rhinos. The foundation rescues elephants, orphaned due to the ivory trade and the hunt for elephant tusks, as well as orangutans, displaced during the conversion of Bornean rainforest to palm oil plantations. They recently produced the film “Born to be Wild” which was named for Steppenwolf’s famous single. The Breakfast Club presentation perfectly complemented the recent adoption of a rhino, elephant and orangutan in Anacapa’s name by the Knowles family.