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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 park was created as much to protect the local communities from marauding elephants with a hatred of dangerous humans and a lack of interest in the differences between nations as it was to protect the elephants.

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Dogs of Courage

4 The Love Of Animals

There are also tales of dogs who weren’t specially trained, but who turned out to have skills that helped their humans in unexpected ways! A Rottweiler named Sheba who broke free from her chain and rescued nine of her puppies after her owner buried them alive in a two-foot deep grave because they weren’t purebred.

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Falakhe’s Story

10,000 Birds

After a few hours we guesstimated that the pack had moved south and after checking the shooting range (where the park rangers tasked with the unenviable responsibility of protecting the park’s rhinos practised their art) we joined the road to the less touristy southern part of the park. Support Wildlife ACT in supporting them.

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