Four orphaned elephants to be reintroduced into wild in Botswana


GABORONE, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Four orphaned elephants will be reintroduced into the wild in 2023, after spending five years at the Elephant Havens orphanage in Botswana.

Boago Poloko, managing director of the orphanage, said in an interview on Wednesday that they have secured a plot where they will release the elephants to stay with zero human contact, before eventually being reintroduced into the wild.

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