Zimbabwe elephant orphanage
In western Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls region a 34,000 hectare protected area and camp for young orphaned elephants’ rehabilitation and rewildering has been established since 2013. The rehabilitation is a 3 to 5 year process where each individual elephant is given specialized care dependent on their specific individual needs. When they grow into healthy adolescents they begin a process of learning to adjust to a life back in the wild again…
Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, Panda Masuie, Zimbabwe
Text by Andrea Jeska
Brigitte magazine 2019

Africa currently has a population of about 450 000 elephants, according to IUCN. African Elephants are facing possible extinction within the next 20 years due to an upsurge in the global ivory trade. The crisis is driven by demand for ivory from a rapidly growing and increasingly affluent middle class in China and South East Asia, where ivory is regarded as investment.