Bellevue Forest Reserve

History was made on the 22nd of August 2023, as the first ever family group of elephants was successfully captured and moved from the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. Two adult females, each with two female calves, along with three young bulls, were translocated to the privately owned Bellevue Forest Reserve near Paterson, on land where their forefathers once freely roamed. It has been a long-awaited day and the realisation of a dream for Bellevue’s owner, … [Read more...] about Historic return of Addo elephants to Bellevue Forest Reserve