Zimbabwe moves 2,500 wild animals due to climate change

An elephant is hoisted into a transport vehicle. In Zimbabwe, National Parks is moving more than 2,500 wild animals from a southern reserve to one in the country's north to rescue them from drought. [AP]

A helicopter herds thousands of impalas into an enclosure. A crane hoists sedated upside-down elephants into trailers. Hordes of rangers drive other animals into metal cages and a convoy of trucks starts a journey of about 700 kilometres (435 miles) to take the animals to their new home.

Zimbabwe has begun moving more than 2,500 wild animals from a southern reserve to one in the country's north to rescue them from drought, as the ravages of climate change replace poaching as the biggest threat to wildlife.