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On this glorious day out, young bull, Mambo enjoys a momentous mud bath with Kumbura and Limpopo, before Mom, Lundi joins in. The pair, mother and son, enjoy some very special bonding time applying sand after their time in the mud, loosening the sand with the edges of their strong feet and then tossing it … Continued
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela, South African Hero We are excited to be starting new relationships with different schools around us in Hoedspruit, starting with the school that our junior carer, Khensani attended many moons ago… Mpisi Primary School. Khensani has been leading … Continued
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A HUGE THANK YOU FROM HERD Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude… Our hearts seem very small beside the gentle giants in the Jabulani herd, and increasingly smaller beside growing Khanyisa, but how they seem and how they feel are two … Continued
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HERD Operations Manager, Juan Ferreira shares some insight into elephants and their impact on the environment. Elephants are considered as ecosystem engineers, sculpting the landscape they move through and creating microhabitats for smaller mammals and invertebrates as well as facilitating much needed plant diversity. As the Jabulani elephant herd and wild elephant herds in the … Continued
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It takes guts to raise a baby elephant in the wild African savanna and forests It takes nerves of steel and sometimes, when the little pachyderm is tugging on your tail or the rains just won’t come, it takes patience and a cool head. It also requires the transfer of symbiotic microbial bacteria from the … Continued
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When baby elephants are born, they need to get up onto all four feet as quickly as possible so to have that first drink of Mom’s milk, and avoid tempting predators with the smell of new placenta. The longer they take to stand upright and keep those shaky little waif limbs firm on their new … Continued
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She is an already unusual sight… a little pink elephant with blonde tail hairs and trunk whiskers and white-blue eyes… But with her multi-coloured range of blankets that hug her body on cold evenings and mornings, Khanyisa is a vision. A unique orphan-no-longer, her journey has been anything but usual, with her second chance at … Continued
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Every elephant needs a herd For an elephant, there is nothing quite as important as the love provided and bonds created by their families. These phenomenal mammals depend extensively on one another, not only for protection and survival but also for the emotional connections that are crucial for any elephant to thrive. The importance of … Continued
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For World Veterinary Day, we are celebrating all the incredible wildlife vets who have played vital roles in our work with elephants and other animals over the years: Dr Peter Rogers and the team at Provet Wildlife Services, Dr Johan Marais of Saving the Survivors, and Dr Ben Muller who accompanied Adine and Khanyisa after … Continued
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We invite classrooms across the country or continent to share these videos with your students and spread the message! #STOPSNARING Our multi-language videos about snaring aim to reach more and more people across South Africa and beyond, and will form part of our community collaborations in schools, starting with English, Sotho, Shangaan and Shona. Watch … Continued
