SANParks is the host sponsor for the Addo Elephant Trail Run 2025.
The event takes place in the vast and beautiful wilderness of the Addo Elephant National Park. SANParks provide us with an amazing race venue, and have been instrumental in working with us to design an amazing and challenging race route that will take runners into some of the oldest and most remote sections of the park.
Now the third largest national park in South Africa, the original elephant section of the park was proclaimed in 1931, when only eleven elephants remained in the area.
Today this finely-tuned ecosystem is sanctuary to over 600 elephant, lion, buffalo, black rhino, spotted hyena, leopard, a variety of antelope and zebra species, as well as the unique Addo flightless dung beetle, found almost exclusively in Addo.
The park can exclusively claim to be the only national park in the world to conserve the “Big 7” – the Big 5 as well as the southern right whale and great white shark off the Algoa Bay coast.
We are extremely grateful that we can give our runners the opportunity to experience this amazing park and its wildlife from such a unique and challenging perspective.
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