Botswana sends first of 300 elephants to Angola
Date: 06-Sep-01
Country: SOUTH AFRICA
The Kissama Foundation, a private group which has been mandated to rehabilitate Angola's national parks, said that two family groups of four elephants each were flown in an Ilyushin cargo plane to the Quicama National Park in Angola.
They left the Louis Trichard airbase in northern South Africa, after being driven across the border from Botswana.
The four bulls and four cows are the first elephants out of a total 300 which Botswana has promised to give to Angola - a country at civil war since independence from Portugal in 1975.
