World’s Biggest Elephants Webcam
The web camera is located at a ‘watering hole’ at the Tembe Elephant Park in the north-east corner of South Africa, near the Mozambique border. This is a 30 second refresh camera with real time sound. The camera can pan tilt and zoom and is controlled by a remote operator. Unfortunately it doesn’t have infrared, so only the sounds are available at night. Local time is US EST + 6 hours. There is an Elephant Sightings Times chart on the site which shows that elephants visit the water whole most often around 11-12 noon local time i.e. 5-6 am US EST. But even if you’re not an early riser you can still see these magnificent giants up until the African sunset (around 12pm noon US EST).
The Tembe Elephant Reserve is situated in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The local subspecies are THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ELEPHANTS, with males often weighing over 6 metric tons (13,000 lbs !). The reserve was established 1983 to conserve the last free roaming elephant population in this area. Traditionally the elephants used to migrate northwards into Mozambique, but due to pressure put on the population by poachers the elephants resorted to spending most of their time in the dense sand forest areas that has now become part of the Tembe Elephant Reserve. Since protected, the elephant population has began to expand.
An estimated 20,000 elephants are slaughtered annually to supply illegal ivory markets. More and more potentially poached ivory is now offered over the Internet where there is little risk to illegal traders of being detected or prosecuted. Ivory trade anywhere is a threat to elephants everywhere. No trade in ivory should be allowed, especially while domestic ivory markets all over the world remain unregulated. And the legal ivory trade often serves as a cover for the unbelievable levels of illegal trade that encourages poaching across Africa and Asia.
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