KPMG helps save Elephants - info supplied by Cindy Wainwright and Heidi Christodoulou via Freda Ashton (nice group effort!)

I’m sure most of you either watched or were told about the programme flighted by Carte Blanche on Sunday evening concerning the Tuli elephants and their severe mistreatment.

The good news is that something is being done about it - and KPMG is helping.

Phinda game reserve have offered a piece of land bordering their reserve to rehabilitate the elephants. They have a twenty year lease on the land which is fenced for wild life. This land has an open border with Phinda in the form of a river.

Phinda currently have a herd of 60 elephants and Zulu Nyala, the bordering reserve, have a small herd of 4 elephants relocated from Kruger Park.

The Managing Director of Zulu Nyala will be meeting with the Zululand Land Owners next week to discuss the implications of the Tuli elephants crossing the borders in Phinda and the effects of the herds joining. He is willing to look at acquiring a matriarch and bull from Kruger Park to help rehabilitate these "babies".

Funds need to be raised to build holding pens on the Zulu Nyala land as well as the purchasing, transportation, feeding, etc of these animals.

This is where KPMG comes in, we’re going to fund the relocation costs of the Tuli elephants to Phinda.

We are now waiting to hear if further funds need to be raised to buy these animals or if they are going to be confiscated.

M-Net will be reflighting the documentary tonight at 6:30pm, and updating the progress to date.

We’ll be keeping you informed every step of the way.... All the way to Phinda with the help of KPMG.