Zimbabwe Moves 2,500 Wild Animals Due to Climate Change
An elephant is hoisted into a transport vehicle at the Liwonde National Park southern Malawi, July 10, 2022. Photographer: Thoko Chikondo/AP
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Harare, Zimbabwe (AP) -- A helicopter herds thousands of impalas into an enclosure. A crane hoists sedated upside-down elephants into trailers. Hordes of rangers drive other animals into metal cages and a convoy of trucks starts a journey of about 700 kilometers (435 miles) to take the animals to their new home.
Zimbabwe has begun moving more than 2,500 wild animals from a southern reserve to one in the country’s north to rescue them from drought, as the ravages of climate change replace poaching as the biggest threat to wildlife.