Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation area situated close to Port Elizabeth and is the third largest park in South Africa. The park has expanded to conserve a wide range of biodiversity, landscapes, fauna and flora. The Park stretches from the semi-arid karoo of the north, over the Zuurberg Mountains and down through the Sundays River valley to the coast, to between the mouths of the Sundays and Bushman’s rivers. Addo is home to one of the densest African Elephant populations on earth, roughly 550 of them. The Addo elephant National park has expanded to become the only park in the world to lay claim to Africa’s ‘Big 7’ –elephant, rhino, buffalo, leopard, southern right whale and great white shark. It has done this by expanding along the coast and by adding offshore marine reserve that includes St Croix Island and Bird Island, both essential breeding grounds for penguins and gannets
