Tembe Elephant Park Waterhole - KZN, South Africa

This 24/7 live camera overlooks a waterhole inside Tembe Elephant Park, a 300 square kilometre reserve on the border of KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique, home to some of the largest elephants in Africa. Tembe is particularly significant as one of the last refuges for the Maputaland elephant population, a genetically distinct group known for producing exceptionally large tuskers rarely seen elsewhere on the continent.

The park is owned and co-managed by the Tembe tribe, making it one of the few game reserves in South Africa under direct indigenous community ownership and management. Regular waterhole visitors include elephants, lions, leopards, buffalo, rhino, and a wide range of antelope species across a sandforest and wetland ecosystem that connects directly to the Mozambican bush across the unfenced northern border.

Tembe sits within the Maputaland region of northern KwaZulu-Natal, one of the most biodiverse coastal and savannah zones in southern Africa, bordering iSimangaliso Wetland Park which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The unfenced Mozambique border means wildlife moves freely between the two countries, with elephant herds regularly crossing in both directions.

Did You Know? Tembe Elephant Park protects one of the last remaining populations of Africa's giant tuskers, elephants whose tusks reach the ground, a genetic trait that has been largely eliminated elsewhere through decades of trophy hunting targeting the largest individuals.

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