National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No. 10 of 2004)

Regulations

National Norms and Standards for the Management of Elephants in South Africa, 2023 - effective 1 April 2023

Chapter 2 : General Management of Elephants

Part 2 : Management of wild elephants

18. Range manipulation

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The movement of an elephant or group of elephants in the area in which it normally ranges may be altered by using one or a combination of the following methods, without compromising biodiversity objectives—

(a)management of the water supply of the elephants;
(b)provision of artificial feed;
(c)the controlled use of fire in appropriate situations;
(d)preventing the elephants from entering or leaving a particular area of the land, by erecting enclosure fences or exclosure fences;
(e)the creation of corridors of movement between different areas;
(f)the expansion of the range by acquisition of additional land; or
(g)non-invasive disturbance such as disturbance by bees, plantation of chillies, creation of noise, or any other similar non-lethal means of disturbance of such elephant or group of elephants.