by Adam Cruise | Oct 22, 2024 | News
By Julia Evans – Daily Maverick Wandering the depths of the Garden Route National Park, the only known survivor of the historic and iconic Knysna forest elephant herd, Strangefoot, faces an uncertain future. Conservationists and locals wrestle with the question:...
by Adam Cruise | Jul 6, 2023 | News
By Estelle Ellis, Daily Maverick Rangers call her Oupoot, the Matriarch, or Strangefoot. For most people, she has always been a ghost or a rumour, maybe a grainy image on surveillance footage taken in the forest. It took filmmaker Ryan Davy months to find her and,...
by Adam Cruise | May 29, 2020 | News
By Guy Rogers, Herald Live SANParks is set to broaden its engagement with stakeholders on how to manage the last elephant in the Knysna Forest. While early records confirm the presence of a number of elephants in the forest, an exhaustive survey culminating in a...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 24, 2020 | News
By Nica Richards, The Citizen Park rangers and managers suspect that scattered planks found in the forest was the work of Oupoot, the last known Knysna elephant. The lone female elephant roaming the Knysna forest may have made a rare appearance during lockdown. ...