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Everyone working on the years-long campaign to free Pretoria Zoo ’s last elephant, Charlie, can heave a massive sigh of relief as the old animal is finally back in the wild after 43 years of captivity. After a nerve-wracking four-hour trek from the Pretoria Zoo , Charlie the elephant has finally touched down at Shambala Private Reserve in Limpopo, his new stomping ground.
According to Smaragda Louw, the director of Ban Animal Trading , keeping Charlie in solitary confinement in a barren enclosure with almost no shade and dirty water and with no enrichment is “nothing more than animal abuse for the sake of human entertainment”. Animal welfare organisation Four Paws, which collaborated with EMS Foundation, said the elephant's "retirement was an important milestone for elephant Charlie but also for better animal welfare in South Africa”, per BBC.
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