ADDO GETS ITS FENCE CUT

THE Addo Elephant Park in the Eastern Cape is to be expanded on Monday at a fence-cutting ceremony attended by the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa. The idea of expanding the park into a huge super-reserve stretching to the coastline has generally been welcomed in the Eastern Cape – although some farmers fear they might be forced to sell their land or follow unacceptable rules. The Government aims to increase the surface area of the park by 25 times from the present 16-thousand hectares to 400-thousand hectares.