South African safari tour guide charges an elephant

Описание: The man loses his job after video footage condemned as "utterly distressing" is seen by hundreds of thousands of safari tour guide has lost his job after he was filmed charging towards a wild elephant on a South African game than 600,000 people have viewed a clip of the man running at the animal in Kruger National was spurred on by another man, believed to his colleague, who can be heard shouting: "Run at him, run at him - right now! Run! Run at him!"

The elephant flaps its ears and shakes its trunk but stands its ground as the man falling over, the worker then runs towards the terrified animal for a second time, forcing it to safari tour guide charges towards an elephant in Kruger National Park, South Africa The man celebrates as the scared elephant runs away

He can be seen celebrating as onlookers laugh, cheer and punch the the safari experience company which employed the guide, said he was no longer working for its Facebook page, the company said it was "utterly distressed" by the incident, adding: "As soon as we were made aware of the video, we took immediate action to investigate the unacceptable investigation is now Severe action has been taken against those responsible and three guides involved in the confrontation are no longer employed by Sightings, the organisation which uploaded the video, said the man's actions were an "absolute which runs luxury lodges and tented camps across South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, insisted: "We condemn behaviour like this and it in no way represents our ethos or philosophy in the natural African elephant seen in the video would have weighed up to six tons animal is found in 37 African countries but populations have declined in recent years because of illegal hunting, habitat loss and human to the African Wildlife Foundation, just 470,000 remain in the The species' conservation status is