The Elephant Sanctuary Brazil, in Mato Grosso, is about to receive two more Asian elephants. Pocha and Guillermina are mother and daughter, and they were living in an ecopark in Mendoza, Argentina.
Pocha, the mother, is 55 years old and has lived in the ecopark since 1968. Her daughter, Guillermina, is 22 years old and was born there. The facility they lived in in Mendoza was in an underground concrete enclosure — a confined, man-made environment far from ideal for the second largest land mammal on the planet, second only to the African elephant.
Pocha and Guillermina entered Brazil by land, this Tuesday (10), in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná. They are being transported in special containers, loaded by trucks and escorted by vehicles from the Federal Highway Police.
The forecast is that the two Asian elephants will arrive at the Elephant Sanctuary Brazil next Thursday. The site is in the municipality of Chapada dos Guimarães, in Mato Grosso — about 67 kilometers from Cuiabá.
In their new home, Pocha and Guillermina will be able to live free and free in nature, in the company of five other elephants of the same species that already live in the sanctuary.
Associação Santuário de Elefantes Brasil is a non-profit organization that was established in Mato Grosso in September 2016. Anyone interested in knowing more details about the work of the institution can access the website elephantsbrasil.org.br.
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