Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Moving Elephants to New Habitat

This video may upset some animal advocates, because moving elephants is dangerous and difficult. Threats to elephants call for drastic intervention to save them. Elephant families are rounded up by helicopter, quicklysedated and transferred to trucks.  They are loaded upside down to aid their breathing while sedated.  These 263 elephants now have a better future in Kasungu National Park, Malawi.  Kasungu has been secured from poachers, and the native elephant population has grown from 50 to about 120. Kusungu NP is four times bigger than Liwonde, so the elephants will have room to roam With the addition of the  elephants translocated from Liwonde Natiobnal Park, Kasungu population is now conserved into the future thanks to the support of IFAW and other conservation organizations..