IFAW's operation "Ele Move"

The IFAW rescue mission is underway to save the last free-roaming wild African elephants in Malawi from a government-planned slaughter, and has already begun to move them to a protected reserve over a hundred miles away.

That's right, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, in the midst of this massive translocation, has built a hundred miles of access roads, imported super sized livestock trailers, lifting cranes, helicoptors and spotter planes from South Africa.

Presently, they are sedating and capturing between 60 to 100 elephants, careful to keep family groups together.

To read their blog and view their videos go HERE.

This map (courtesy of IFAW) shows the route operation Ele Move will make translocating a herd of elephants from the the northeastern Phirilongwe region to the animal preserve in the southwest.

The herd is made up of several family groups and individual bulls.

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