Prince Harry in Africa to save 500 elephants and relocate them

Prince Harry has returned to Africa with his '500 Elephants' project in order to continue his conservation crusade and take a leading role save the continent’s biggest beasts from extinction. Prince Harry is an experienced pilot with warzone experience. He would round up family groups of elephants and get them relocated them 200 miles by air to sanctuary across Malawi.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 27 July 2016.

The pilot in the ‘500Elephants’ project is required to drive out elephants from wooded areas onto the plains so that they can be tranquilized more easily by the on board vet. Prince Harry can perform such a task with ease because of his experience in handling helicopters. He would also monitor the sedated animals after their immobilization.
This is his second successive summer in Africa and, this time, he is working with the NGO African Parks. The 31-year-old Prince Harry brings with him valuable field experience gained from last year’s three months embedded with bush vets and an anti-poaching teams. He has gained hands-on skills with the animals known as Africa’s Big Five.
Harry’s latest venture is the £1million move of around 500 elephants to a wildlife reserve in central Malawi from two parks in the south of the country. The reason for the relocation is gradual scarcity of food and space for the animals. African Parks hopes that the elephants in Malawi can eventually serve as a ‘reservoir’ to restore other African elephant populations. As per estimated, Africa has fewer than 500 000 elephants - it used to be several million a century ago.


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