On a recent visit to the Greater Addo Elephant Park, now South Africa’s third largest national park, we wondered as to how long it will be before measures have to be taken to reduce the burgeoning elephant population. The latest population estimate is some 600 individuals and judging by the number of youngsters in the herds it is growing rapidly, at least in elephant terms.

The dropping of the fence between the original game area and the Colchester sector to the south has doubled the ar...


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