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The last elephant in South Africa’s national zoo is back in the wild after 40 years of captivity. Charlie was captured in 1984 from Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park when he was two years old and taken to Boswell Wilkie Circus in South Africa. In the early 2000s he was transferred to the country’s national zoo. After years of negotiation with the South African government, Charlie arrived at his new home at the Shambala Private Reserve in Limpopo province, a 10,000 hectare reserve known to successfully reintegrate animals back into the wild. Dr Amir Khalil, a veterinarian who led the transfer, told the BBC that Charlie was “very excited to hear other elephants from far away”, with whom he had started to communicate.
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