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World’s First Ever Virtual Elephant Collaring Experience
Elephants Alive achieved a world-first during lockdown – a live virtual collaring, with more than 250 viewers tuning in from around the world to watch the collaring of two majestic bulls.
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Guest Blog – Ensuring the survival of elephants and their habitats and promoting their harmonious co-existence with humans.
About Elephants Alive For more than twenty years, Elephants Alive (originally Save the Elephants SA), has been studying the elephants of the Greater Kruger Area, more recently known as the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Our study area spans three countries and includes
Guest blog: The booming call of ground hornbills. What are they saying?
Written by Kyle-Mark Middleton According to the Zulus, who call Ground Hornbills iSingizi, this is what they say when they call. First the female calls:“Ngiyemuka,ngiyemuka ngiya kwabethu.”(I am going away, going away to my people)To which the male answers: “Hamba, Hamba, kad’usho.”(Go,
Timbavati & EWT Vulture Conservation & Research gets off the ground
Vultures are in big trouble. All over Africa populations are declining. South Africa is no exception. Poisoning, “muti” killings, loss of habitat and scarcity of prey are some of the reasons for the decline ALTHOUGH THERE ARE HEALTHY VULTURE NUMBERS IN THE TIMBAVATI, THEIR
Guest blog: Wildlife, transport, roadkill; Join the Coalition to Reduce Collisions
By Wendy Collinson, Wildlife and Transport Programme, Endangered Wildlife Trust Deadly roads We have all accidentally collided with an animal at some point in our lives, be it a small butterfly, a bird or something larger like a kudu. Ironically, many of these
Vulture Research
The Timbavati embarks on a great initiative engineered by Graeme Naylor partnered by the EWT to help protect our vulture species. Vultures are coming under huge pressure from poisoning, multi killings, lack of food etc. Read how this development can
The value of elephant research at the Timbavati
Elephants Alive The Transboundary Elephant Research Programme represents the South African branch of Save the Elephants. The research extends across Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. It is presently continuing as Elephants Alive. The project officially started in 2003, but draws on data collected over
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Southern Ground Hornbill Research Project: Quarterly Report
Sightings of dispersed birds continue to be sent in and we now have 9 dispersal records of birds ringed in the APNR appearing either with new groups within the APNR or with groups in Kruger National Park.
Save the Elephants May Tracking Report
Save the Elephants South Africa, based at Tanda Tula Safari Camp in the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve, recently released their May elephant tracking report which shows the movements of various collared elephants in and around the Greater Kruger National Park. The
