Saved from Culling: A Lioness Relocation
Overpopulation of lions often leads to culling in South Africa. WeWild stepped in to airlift two beautiful lionesses to a new home, where their new genetics would be prized in the expansion of a pride.
A Rewilding like No Other: Mongooses Go to Zimbabwe
No animal is too big or too small, and each individual matters in our conservation of biodiversity. Today we look at the twelve banded mongooses who were rescued and rehabilitated by Wild and Free and now thriving in their new home in Zimbabwe.
Frontline Conservation: Emergency Rhino Dehorning at Loskop
As part of our long-standing partnership at Loskop and the greater restoration and expansion of the reserve in a first of its kind partnership with the provisional government, we stepped in to assist in the emergency dehorning of six rhinos.
Addo’s Historic Elephant Relocation
On a scale that has never been seen before, WeWild Africa and its partners have taken a monumental step in elephant conservation by orchestrating the first-ever relocation of family groups of elephants from Addo Elephant National Park to three different reserves. This groundbreaking initiative, addressing overpopulation and habitat degradation, reconnected the pachyderms with their ancestral lands and enriched the biodiversity of their new homes.
Partner Highlight: Metapopulation Initiative, University of Pretoria, the Wildlife Emergency Fund, and Andrew Malcolm Films
Today we’re relocating a young cheetah from our long-standing partner, The Rietvlei Nature Reserve, to a new habitat in the Lowveld, a vital step in ensuring genetic diversity and long-term survival of the world’s fastest land mammal. A special thank you to The Metapopulation Initiative, The University of Pretoria, and the Wildlife Emergency Fund for their collaboration in conservation over the years.