Outcry as free-roaming elephants are moved to Joburg Zoo, despite overwhelming protests.
"These elephants were taken straight from a free-contact situation into a protected enclosure with no transitional period. There is no space in the enclosure, which is surrounded by a moat system which they have never had to deal with," said Mitchell.
The two new elephants, a 21-year-old male named Ramadiba and a 19-year-old female named Mopane, were initially captured from the wild before being sold to the Eastern Cape-based Inkwenkwezi Private Game Reserve near Chintsa. The reserve offered elephant interactions to paying visitors, with Ramadiba and Mopane as main attractions.Both Lammie and her previous partner, Kinkel, who died at the zoo, .
Following his death, Joburg Zoo stated that the elephant enclosure would be enlarged. However, no such improvements have been made. ERT, together with leading elephant management organisations Humane Society International - Africa and the EMS Foundation, has been working since September last year to release Lammie to a rewilding facility with a herd of previously captive elephants.
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