Tembe Elephant Park, a wilderness area of approximately 300 sq kms, is located on the border of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa and southern Mozambique.

The ancestral home of the Tembe Tribe it was established in 1983 to protect the migratory elephants which had been traumatized by poaching and the civil war in Mozambique. Open to the public in 1991, this unique Park is now home to some of the largest elephants in the world.

This superbly written and researched account is the story of the Sihangwane elephants and the Tembe Elephant Park. Ed Ostrosky, who lived and worked amongst these giants, recounts the history of the Park following the transition from ‘elephant control’ to the tragic but necessary confinement of Sihangwane’s free-roaming elephants.

Tembe, Saving the Sihangwane Elephants is not just another story around the campfire. Ostrosky shares the daily management challenges, negotiations with authorities and staff, bureaucratic bungling, political upheavals, and encounters with dissidents and poachers as well as controlling problem elephants.

An honest and personal history from the man, who together with his wife Trelda, lived there, amongst their beloved elephants. Highly recommended.