Kenya wildlife service rangers load a 22

KWALE, KENYA: Kenya wildlife service rangers load a 22-year-old male elephant, that was put to sleep, 25 August 2005 in the Shimba hills in the coastal area of the Kwale district, during the translocation of 400 elephants to the national park. After a one-month delay, wildlife officials in Kenya 22 August they will begin this week moving hundreds of elephants from an overcrowded coastal game reserve to a larger park further inland. In a scheme dubbed "the single largest translocation of animals ever undertaken since Noah's Ark," the first of 400 elephants will be taken from the Shimba Hills National Reserve to Tsavo East National Park 25 August. AFP PHOTO SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)