Southern Africa is currently experiencing a significant challenge in terms of elephant numbers, with many protected areas reaching their ecological carrying capacity.
Urgent intervention is required to ensure that elephants do not need to be culled in the short to medium term. In addition to this, elephant populations are constantly exposed to snaring, human-wildlife conflict, etc.
This is according to conservation NGO, WeWild Africa.
Last month, WeWild Africa gathered resources and funding to organise and execute an emergency aerial rescue intervention of five elephants at Ndumo Game Reserve, in partnership with Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, tracking and redirecting the elephants back to safety.
These elephants moved from the Kruger National Park, through southern Mozambique and into the communities around Ndumo Game Reserve in South Africa.
WeWild Africa is currently one of the only organisations in South Africa that is actively intervening to translocate elephants to areas that can…
