Four days ago he was going to be shot but on Tuesday, thanks to an extraordinary flurry of eco-co-operation, Harry the wandering Blaauwbosch bull elephant was saved.

He was shot with a tranquillising dart from a helicopter by wildlife vet Dr William Fowlds, and little more than an hour later he was on his feet in the back of a truck on his way to his new home at the foot of the Sneeuberg...