Kruger Magazine

ELEPHANTS ALIVE

The biggest challenge is ‘trying to provide advice on both how to best manage expanding populations in fenced reserves within South Africa, while simultaneously educating people on the alarming pan-African decline facing elephants’.

Kruger is home to one of southern Af rica’s largest f ree-ranging elephant populations. With the fences down, elephants can move throughout the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. This includes Kruger National Park and the Associated Private Nature Reserves (APNR) bordering the Park (Timbavati, Klaserie, Umbabat, Balule and Thornybush) in South Africa, Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe and Parque Nacional do Limpopo in Mozambique.

For 20 years, Elephants Alive, the Hoedspruit-based

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