{"id":4266,"date":"2016-07-05T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2016-07-05T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:16:28","slug":"elephants-on-the-move-to-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/elephants-on-the-move-to-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants on the Move to Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"

500 elephants are being moved in Malawi in an attempt to preserve the current dwindling numbers – it is estimated that there are now fewer than 450,000 African elephants remaining, as a result of excessive poaching and habitat loss.\u00a0 The exercise, a collaboration between African Parks and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, will be one of the biggest events ever to happen to Malawi\u2019s wildlife Tourism.<\/b><\/p>\n

Malawi have been very successful with their anti-poaching and ongoing management of human-wildlife conflict, which has resulted in a population surplus in Liwonde National Park (home to Malawi’s largest population of elephants at 800 strong) and Majete Wildlife Reserve, which are protected areas,<\/p>\n

The huge relocation starts this week in Liwonde National Park.\u00a0 Helicopters will be used to dart the elephants, who are then lifted by crane onto trucks to start their 300 km road journey to a newly created 16,000 hectare sanctuary at the Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, close to Lake Malawi – which currently is home to 100 elephants.\u00a0 The arriving elephants will be kept safe and secure in the sanctuary before being released, after time, into the main reserve.\u00a0 There are also plans to relocate other wildlife into the reserve, to\u00a0 build up the wildlife here again.<\/p>\n

This is an extremely hopeful story for not only elephants, but for conservation and also for Malawi. Kelly While from Malawi Tourism says\u00a0\u201cWe are delighted with African Parks\u2019 plans to relocate and reintroduce species into Malawi\u2019s Parks. If Malawi had a\u00a0perceived weakness in tourism terms, it was that some of its neighbours offered a\u00a0\u2018better\u2019 safari\u00a0experience. But, as well as helping to safeguard the future for these magnificent animals, these developments will result in a total transformation of Malawi\u2019s wildlife and safaris. Malawi will become one of the most complete destinations in Africa – Lake, Landscape, Culture and now Wildlife experiences of the very highest quality. Warm, welcoming and unspoilt, Malawi really is just waiting to be discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n

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500 elephants are being moved in Malawi in an attempt to preserve the current dwindling numbers – it is estimated that there are now fewer than 450,000 African elephants remaining, as a result of excessive poaching and habitat loss.\u00a0 The exercise, a collaboration between African Parks and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, will […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1363,9],"tags":[1369,1368,456,1370,1366,1371,1367],"class_list":["post-4266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-safari","category-elephants","category-travel-news","tag-african-parks","tag-anti-poaching","tag-elephant","tag-liwonde-national-park","tag-malawi","tag-nkhotakota-wildlife-reserve","tag-relocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}