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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

10,000 Birds

But it wasn’t founded to serve as a refuge for human refugees, but animal ones, specifically elephants. The first Lions to be re-introduced to Rwanda a few days ago were sourced from Tembe. It was founded as a safe place for refugees from the Mozambique Civil War , which ran from 1977 to 1992. But despite this, I did see birds.