The Tembe tribe also own and manage the Tembe wildlife lodge. Tembe Elephant Park is owned by the Tembe tribal community and managed by a government conservation agency. The park opened to the public in 1991 and was developed by Tembe Tribal Authority and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife. I assume it still has to be fenced which is very costly According to the map the corridor has been demarcated. Reserve in Mozambique and there is a plan to create a corridor between Tembe and the Maputo. There are another 400 elephants of the same rare gene pool in the His tusks were stolen and thought to be 60 kg per tusk. The most famous Tusker in Tembe was Isilo who died of natural causes in 2014. The waterhole is topped up with water flowing from a pipe and one of these tuskers prefers to suck the clean water coming out of the pipe and become very frustrated when the water stops flowing or is only a trickle. Some of them can be seen almost daily on the live webcam.
The park now has 250 elephant and is famous for having a large number of big tuskers ( elephant bulls carrying over 45 kg of ivory per tusk) there are apparently 8 tuskers in the park. The elephants were being severely poached in Mozambique during the Mozambican war (1975-1992) and suffered from setting off landmines and wire snares set for smaller wildlife The park was established in 1983 to protect the elephants that moved freely between KwaZulu and Mozambique. The countryside has a wide range of flora including dense woodlands, rare sand forests and wetlands. The park is in Northern Maputaland in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal bordering Mozambique. These sand forests, found in patches scattered throughout Tembe are comprised of one of the most unique plant communities in the Maputaland centre.Live webcam at Tembe Elephant Park features a constant flow of elephant and other wildlife that drink and chillout around a scenic waterhole. Most of these being found in a unique forest type, locally referred to as a sand forest. Tembe Elephant National Park displays a spectacular variety of rare and endemic plant and animal species. The zone falls within a transition area between tropical and sub-tropical forms and therefore is home to a great diversity of vegetation. Tembe Elephant Park is situated within the sand-veld ecological zone and consists mainly of closed woodland and secondary thicket formation. There are no Cheetah or African Wild Dogs at Tembe Elephant Park. Tembe Elephant Park also has many antelope species, including the shy Suni, Africa’s smallest antelope as well as giraffe, wildebeest and a host of other small mammals, reptiles and insects.
Tembe Elephant Park is the third largest game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.Īpart from its magnificent elephants, it is home to the rest of the Big Five – namely – leopard, lion, Cape buffalo and rhino as well as more than 340 species of birds including the rare Rudd's apalis, the rufous-bellied heron, Natal nightjar and the Woodward's batis. Tembe elephant park is a 300km2 reserve located between Kwa-Zulu Natal and Mozambique and was established in 1983 to protect elephants migrating between Maputaland and southern Mozambique.
He had tusks 2,5mtrs long and weighing more than 60kgs. The largest African Elephant at the park, called Isilo, died of natural causes in 2015 and is thought to have been around 50 years old. Tembe Elephant Park is home to some of the biggest elephants in the world.