(12 Aug 2025)
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Bela-Bela, South Africa – 12 August 2025
1. Wide of Elephants drinking water at a reserve
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Hensman, Director at Adventures with Elephants and The Rory Hensman Conservationi & Research Unit:
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“We run an educational interactive facility. We’ve got a herd of elephants here where people are able to meet the elephants, connect with them, learn about them. We tell them everything from their tail to their trunk and everything in between and then over and above that, we do research with the elephants, a whole bunch of conservation and community projects as well.”
3. Wide of elephant shaking off soil
4. Wide of visitor interecting with elephant
5. Wide of reserve officials handling elephants
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Hensman, Director at Adventures with Elephants and The Rory Hensman Conservation & Research Unit:
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“The idea is to learn as much as we can about the elephants and then utilize what we’ve learned to see if we can use that to help humanity as well as obviously elephants and conservation. So we do a lot of anti-poaching, trial a lot of anti-poaching technologies. We trial human wildlife conflict solutions, a bunch of things like that.”
7. Wide of tourists and reserve officials touching elephant
8. Wide of elephants eating and interacting with reserve officials
9. Hensman walking with elephant
10. Elephant engaging with a reserve official
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Bouwer, Chief Operating Officer of Elephant Care Association of Southern Africa:
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“Basically, what we do is we work with all of the semi-captive elephant facilities across Southern Africa and we assist in training staff in best handling, best practice and we ensure the best practice for elephants under human care, and that is what we strive to achieve is to make sure that we maintain our relationships with them so that we can have best practice and best care for them, ensuring that their wellbeing and that their welfare is fantastic.”
12. Wide of nature reserve officials walking with elephants
13. Hensman allowing Naledi the elephant to play with him
14. Nature reserve officials walking with elephants
15. Sean holding hay for elephant to eat
16. David showing tourists the inside of elephant’s mouth
17. Wide of elephants drinking water from pond
STORYLINE:
A South African conservation unit is marking World Elephant Day on Tuesday by showcasing its work to protect and study the animals.
The Rory Hensman Conservation & Research Unit runs an interactive facility where visitors can meet elephants, learn about their biology and behaviour and hear about the threats they face.
Director Sean Hensman says the aim is to create a personal connection between people and elephants while also advancing research.
“We tell them everything from their tail to their trunk and everything in between,” he said.
The team also conducts trials of anti-poaching technologies and develops solutions to reduce human-wildlife conflict.
“The idea is to learn as much as we can about the elephants and then utilize what we’ve learned to help humanity as well as obviously elephants and conservation,” said Hensman.
The Elephant Care Association of Southern Africa works alongside such facilities to promote best practice.
Chief Operating Officer Andrea Bouwer said they train staff in safe handling and welfare standards to ensure elephants receive the best possible treatment.
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