RESCUE PLAN: Stranded giants on the move — rescued baobabs hit 900km road to sanctuary

Source: Daily Maverick · 2026-11-11T22:01:42.000Z · World

Five giant baobabs — thirsty, shrunken, but still alive after three months out of the soil — are heading back homeward from the port of Durban after conservationists mounted an urgent and costly rescue operation to shift them to a new sanctuary in the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve, which straddles the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces.

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