Africa Beautiful Africa 17 - by @mambaman

in #elephant7 years ago

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African Elephant in the Addo Elephant National Park

The Addo Elephant National Park was established in 1931 to protect the last few elephant remaining in this area. It is the third largest National Park in South Africa and is situated in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa 72 km by road from the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. At the time the Addo Elephant National Park was established, it was a sanctuary for just 11 elephant remaining in this area. This number has since grown to over 600.

The Big 5 are all found here (Elephant, Buffalo, Rhino, Lion and Leopard) as well as many other animals and birds.

On a recent day visit we saw - Springbok, Eland, Red Heartebeest, Kudu, Warthog, Buffalo, Black Rhino and of course - Elephant. Another unusual animal that is protected here is the endangered Flightless Bung Beetle

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I can only imagine

sorry sir you cannot build your pool, you have flightless bung beetles, endangered species don't you know?

Such a wonderful and intelligent creature. I hope our grandchildren will be able to know them, and not only in zoos.

Let’s hope our specie does not destruct their ecosystem

The ostrich is also protected and it is also one of the prides of south africa. Nice one.

The Beautiful Animal ...nice posst

Hopefully there is no culture of riding elephants!

nice pic.

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They are so elegant. Poor animals hunter's hunting them down and selling their tooths. This is so sad when we as humans the smartest creature on earth act like virus... We grow and try to remove everything from our society.

That looks splendid bro. You know I saw an elephant in circus. It felt so bad for that huge creature. People being emotional don't see the emotions of animals. Maybe because they are unable to express. But we aren't even kind enough towards the animals of mother earth.

These beautiful animal species we must treasure them for the future generations. These we must not allow to be endangered.

well post ..... very crative inforamtion.
thanks for that......