Elephant Kariba reaches Alentejo sanctuary after days-long road journey from Belgium

Kariba, an African elephant captured as a calf in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, arrived at the Pangea Trust sanctuary in the Alentejo at 1am, becoming its second resident. She had left on Monday, accompanied by her Belgian keeper. Blind in one eye and anxious after four decades in European zoos, she looked unsteady on first stepping down but soon sniffed the ground, ate hay and watermelon, and drank. She will stay in the barn for at least 24 to 48 hours before reaching her enclosure. Staff plan a gradual, barrier-separated introduction to Julie, the first resident, who has settled in over the past four months.