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The last elephant held in the National Zoo in Pretoria, South Africa, has been released after 40 years of captivity. The announcement was made by the Ems Foundation, an NGO for the defense of wildlife. The elephant, named Charlie, was captured in 1984 in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, when he was two years old (he is now 42), and in the early 2000s he was first assigned to the Boswell Wilkie circus to participate in acrobatic games, then transferred to the South African National Zoo.
In a statement, the NGO said “Charlie” was released on Monday in the private Shambala nature reserve in the northern Limpopo province, “after a grueling four-hour journey to freedom.” Ems Foundation spoke of a “historic event”, following years of negotiations with the South African government, and also urged the Johannesburg Zoo – the only one in the country to still have elephants – to do the same.
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