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Diamond Company Plans To Move 200 Elephants From South Africa To Mozambique

De Beers Group said Monday that it is transporting them from an overcrowded reserve to "help secure their future."
African elephants in the Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve in South Africa. De Beers Group announced Monday that some elephants will be relocated to Zinave National Park in Mozambique.

De Beers Group, the company most known for diamonds, announced Monday that it is moving 200 elephants from South Africa to Mozambique in an attempt to boost that country's depleted population.

In July and August, some 60 elephants are scheduled make the trip from the company's Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve, in the

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