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The Search for the Knysna Elephants Documentary
 
The Search for the Knysna Elephants, a documentary that tells the remarkable story of the world's most southerly elephants, and Gareth's findings on this population, will premiere on Animal Planet UK on Saturday, 13/06/2009 at 21:00.
 
Despite ivory hunting, sport hunting and poaching in the past, the lack of protection in more recent times, and deemed 'a functionally extinct population' in the past decade, The Search for the Knysna Elephants, tells how quietly, unseen, and without the aid of humankind, the Knysna elephants have brought themselves back from the very brink.
 
As recent as 1999, it was thought that only one Knysna elephant was still alive, an elderly female, known by the forest people as 'The Matriarch'. Gareth embarked on his research on the Knysna elephants in 2001, and in the course of covering thousands of kilometres on foot, he discovers evidence of a small breeding population. Follow Gareth's forest guard friends, Wilfred Oraai and Karel Maswatie in the documentary as they increasingly discover evidence in the forest of a male Knysna elephant that never before had been seen...The Search for the Knysna Elephants is a fascinating and inspiring insight into the hidden world of these "miracle'"elephants. 

 

The Gareth Patterson Wildlife Foundation (GPWF) has recently been established, and marks Gareth’s twenty-fifth year of involvement in the greater protection of African wildlife. To learn more...


View Knysna Elephant Video

"Elephants in the Mists" The Star Dec. 8 2008

"The Animal Connection" Sept. 2008 The Sunday Indian

Gareth Judges Environmental Awards

SABC News Report on Knysna Elephants

Media Release: Knysna Elephants

Latest Articles About Gareth:

Hunt for Great Ghosts of the Forest

The Lion Man and His Pride
March 07

African Journal of Ecology Article about Knysna Elephants
Paper can be obtained through the site: "The Knysna elephants: a population study conducted using faecal DNA"

Environment News Service Report

Other Articles Written by Gareth:
The Nature of Change
The canary is dying, but is anyone really listening?

Gareth in Knysna

Eden to Addo Corridor Initiative
Linking wild lands for elephants

Tracking Bigfoot
Article Published about Knysna Elephants 2/5/06

Jumbo Poo is Good for You 3/7/2003

Gareth Wins Environmental Award

Knysna Elephants and Medicinal Mushrooms: A Case of Self-Medication that has Contributed to the Survival of a Relic Elephant Population?

Media Release: 2/9/2003
The existence of elephant "movement corridors."
Could southern African elephants be creating
their own solution to "overpopulation?"


Late Breaking Lion News
At last, "canned lion" hunting is finally to be banned in South Africa. But, other forms of killing lions for "sport" is still to be allowed to continue... !

Gareth's Latest Project:The Knysna Elephants

Late Breaking Elephant News
from www.savetheelephants.org

Inspirational talks and presentations by Gareth

Baboon Sanctuary Project
Turgwe Hippo Trust

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