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Elephant Abuse Update: Interview with Greg Vogt

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Greg Vogt was the manager of the Knysna Elephant Park (KEP) for 7 years. As the elephant abuse story has 2 sides, so does Greg. On one hand, he admits that there were things happening at Knysna Elephant Park that he wasn’t happy with yet doesn’t accept any blame despite having been a well-paid manager (his wife was also employed by KEP and the family stayed on the property). On the other, he’s been actively involved in elephant studies of obvious benefit to conservation and, especially, elephants. This has happened … Read the full article…

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Knysna Elephant Park Denies Abuse

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This is a press release issued by Knysna Elephant Park (for further context, please refer to the previous blog on this site, ‘Were Elephants Tortured in Knysna?’): With these relevant facts now known to the reader, and in order to provide some clarification to the allegations published by the NSPCA, the Knysna Elephant Park issues the following further factual statement regarding this terrible event that they discovered six years ago: This incident took place in 2008. The elephants in question were only housed and fed at Elephants of Eden, not … Read the full article…

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