Addo Elephant National Park is an elephant park situated close to Port Elizabeth . It was founded in 1931, in order to provide a sanctuary for the eleven remaining elephants in the area. The park proved very successful and currently 450 elephants, 400 Cape Buffalo , some 48 endangered Black Rhino as well as various antelope species habitat this park. Lion and spotted hyena has also been re-introduced to the park recently. A unique species that is only found in this area is the flightless dung beetle.

The park has been extended from the Sunday River mouth to Alexandria including also a marine reserve. This expansion means that the park contains five of South Africa’s seven major vegetation zones but also that it is probably the only park in the world to house the Big 7 -elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo, leopard, whale and great white shark – in their natural habitat.