Inside a helicopter flying over Krugar park, South Africa, a man aims his gun at an elephant. As the great grey beast scurries away, he is hit and falls to the ground in a heap of leathery flesh. But the elephant has not been killed, only felled by an anaesthetizing dart. Before long he is snoring in his sleep. In parts of Africa, where elephant overpopulation is a problem, game parks are running relocation Programmes. In the past, they solved the problem by culling the animals. Now, the policy is to drug the elephants, take blood samples, haul them onto a trailer and truck them off to another park. File footage of culled elephants lying in pools of foaming blood emphasizes how relocation is considerably more humane. In their new home, the Marakeli National Park, the relocated elephants stumble around in the scrub. By morning, they have calmed down and begin wash themselves down in puddles of water.

Produced by Marion Mayor-Hohdahl