London,United Kingdom — Touting a world-first for “rewilding,” an animal charity said Tuesday it was set to fly a herd of elephants from a British zoo to a new home in Kenya.
The Aspinall Foundation said it would use specially built crates aboard a Boeing 747, dubbed the Dumbo jet, to take the 13 pachyderms from their current home near Canterbury in Kent, southeast England.
The charity said it would work with anti-poaching teams to help ensure the long-term survival of the herd — which includes three babies — once it reaches one of two sites under consideration in southern Kenya.
The charity’s head of communications is Carrie Johnson, wife of British Prime Minister Boris Joh…
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