Tembe Elephant park is a game reserve in Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
It was created in 1983, using 30,000 hectares of land owned by the Tembe tribe. This land is still owned by the Tembe tribe community but was donated by them and managed by conservation services in order to protect the elephants, which used to migrate between there and Mozambique. These elephants, which include the big “Tuskers” elephants - those whose tusks weigh over 45kg (100lbs) - were badly poached during the Mozambique civil war. Tembe is now home to some 220 elephants.
The park was opened to the public in 1991 and people can stay at lodges and enjoy driven or self-driven game drives around the park to see the elephants.

As well as elephants, the park is home to many other animals and birds: lions, leopards, African wild dogs, rufous-bellied herons, natal nightjars, black and white rhinos, buffaloes, hippos, giraffes, zebras, and the smallest antelope in Africa, the Suni, which is less than 14” tall.

The video below is a live stream of an area in the park where elephants and the other animals come to enjoy the water.
Please pop back now and again to see the many animals of the park.

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