Page 34 - Dark Matter Issue5 Part II

The animals, the Elephants, are aware of our criminal activities and are responding.

Integrity requires us to change our ways and minds. This is what they are indicating

when they come to meet us.

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Mashatu Game Reserve consists of 72,000 acres located in the Northern Tuli Game

Reserve of Botswana, situated between the Tuli Safari Area, a national park in

Zimbabwe and the Mapungubwe National Park, a World Heritage Site in South Africa. As

it shares unfenced borders with both the South African and Zimbabwean national parks

in the south and north respectively, the animals have a vast area, a long wildlife corridor,

to wander through. However, as they are know they are safe within Botswana where

hunting is illegal and threatened in Zimbabwe where trophy hunting is encouraged, many

animals, if food allows it, avoid crossing into Zimbabwe.

Arriving at Mashatu, we knew we would not experience the intimacy with the animals

that we felt with the single herd of Elephants on the 3,000 acres of Thula Thula nor the

sense of destiny that came with multiple encounters with Elephants on six different

occasions at five in the afternoon at the Chapungu tree in Chobe National Park.