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every 2 months man and that cena travels around 6000 kilometers from her native switzerland to the democratic republic of congo in this politically unstable country she can only move around under the protection of the armed rangers. alena is an internationally sort off to a specialist in man trailing which means she trains dogs specifically to track people down. services are required in particular in the northeast of congo in the room good national park where ruthless brutal poaching is endangering the animal population.

the park director wants to combat the poaching and asked marlena who is a vet for her help 80 years ago since then she's been in charge of developing a special sniffer dog unit for this purpose. the film i didn't know anything about congo only as much as the next person i just knew that it was somewhere in the middle of africa and there was a conflict there when i got there 1st email and phone call i thought i'm not sending any dogs down there is specially not my favorite breed to get off. that you'd actually filmed it but the director of the virunga national park explained to me what he wanted and i gradually got involved we brought our 1st dogs to congo in february 20th levon called.

the fire on going to national park is a unesco world heritage site it's the oldest park in africa and at 8090 square kilometers is the size of the greek island of crete the different altitudes of the park allow enormous biodiversity and a wide range of habitats. a large number of endangered species live in the national park but it's mountain gorillas are the best known worldwide there are only around 1000 gorillas left and 600 of them live here. for. their own go once had the highest density of wildlife in africa today 95 percent of the animals have disappeared tusks and horns are traded for billions

on the asian black markets. the street price is higher than that of gold. poaching is on the rise and tourists no longer count. i. think. don't just say i knew for days to fill one of the 1st questions i asked the director of the park when he called was what will they do as i say my idea was that africans are not used to women being figures of authority. but i soon noticed that i had no problems right from the beginning. i could cry they call me mama which not only means mother but is a mark of respect when i tell them to do something they do it when even a 2nd most of the. other one.

marlena discusses the training plan with christian the leader of the congo hound unit. yes bobby's not cooperating as usual he's resistant. was going to but. once. every year if you think that. it was just a minute wait. he doesn't want to go in. well he does he's already been inside but if you leave the door open and white and don't do anything then it won't work much but. careful osca quiet. that's what. i. love town soon get used to their training territory always takes her talk unit from the roman garbo the administrative center to new

places in the park the bloodhounds need to be able to find their way in all kinds of surroundings. i. think. that we. will. likely this is. the secure knows everything listen to the breed and we have here the bloodhound is new for us. the 1st time i saw these dogs i was afraid of them and didn't like the hero . not even our ancestors kept dogs. then when i saw these bloodhounds with their long years and huge noses i thought they were really bizarre. which to. me just. from the very 1st day as soon as the dogs arrived i started working with

i got used to them after a while. that my then i changed my career from being a gamekeeper to a dog handler. to prison there are actually $0.02 after the other motivation means trying the hand then they're off on a longer trial. so. ok really you. want to see if. there are 8 of us handlers in the dog unit. each of us has his own dog. handler i'm really happy and proud of her because she's such a good worker for. me and we start

with the search game you put something on the ground for them we call it the same title typically a t. shirt or a jacket then the person runs away and the dog runs after them then all. apart go right that's right yes good dog. even look at some point the bloodhound realizes that it's fun that he'll get a snack or praise at the end and he also realizes that the item of clothing. front of him belongs to the person he's looking for you can build on this in training. yes yes well done david. i.

jump yeah shako a retired psychometrist from ban heard about the anti poaching project from montana . you can see. to support her endeavors he decided to create a comic book all about the brave woman and her blood hounds. as anyone in. going to go in. by i'm jumpy i'm looking for a radio tie you know yes it's here. yeah great hi pleased to meet you. i. wish that ok you can start recording. it.

is only had you thought you know can you say radio type interactive but i know we. were a radio station specialized in nature conservation here in goma what is the reason for your visit jumpier. the reason for my visit is to talk about my comic book about conservation here in congo in particular about protecting the boardroom go national park. will look back. and see so it's a comic book especially for children. why did you create this book. is this the new i want to use this comic to show what natural to. treasures you have here in your country and that they are in danger like nature all over the world with. you it's important to me that i can make a difference with this comic i want to shake people up and make children aware of it i thought to myself i have the time and maybe the opportunity to contribute something to the beautiful nature you have here.

so you can call it there's nothing like this here in congo there are lots of fact books but nothing for children there is no distributor in congo that if there is no alternative but for me to carry all the books down here in my luggage or as cargo at the moment i'm bringing them in my luggage as many as possible. then i bring the books into schools and talk to the teachers about the best way of handling the books how to use that meeting up you can. give me but i'm sorry i'm late. yes you're very late the head teacher has been expecting you since 9 o'clock you're 6 or 7 minutes late it's no big deal. i.

i. i. look at this children. i. i i. i just the way what you see on the page. akira. animals bravo. thank you what kind of animals. don't shout out i can see you all i see. old school buses going yes they are wild animals thank you. even those who is threatening the park. you have to know this if we're going to fight this threat.

yes there are poachers. to buy these poachers good people. should the poachers be protected 40. 00000000 because also you must know there are park rangers to protect us and there are specially trained sniffer dogs they can follow the scent of an animal which has been killed over 200 kilometers away with this i. think. homocentric nobel. was. going to toast the folks at the village population sees the dogs with a mixture of great curiosity and fear in the beginning they shouted simba swahili for a line. while. the

black out a bloodhound has been bred for following old difficult and long trials for over a 1000 years the animal has been selected to do this work called man trailing the name. of all dogs the bloodhound has one of the best develops. senses of smell it is capable of sniffing the scent of a certain person and following it weeks later over distances of many kilometers. a bloodhound can even smell the scent of the person who fired

a bullet from this cartridge casing dropped carelessly to the ground after being heated top 1000 degrees when fired. during their training the dogs become accustomed to increasingly difficult situations noise different types of ground and trails of differing ages the animal is capable of working successfully in villages where there are countless smells. but. come here show us. to clearly identify the person so what the dog gets up on its back legs is then rewarded.

if. they all hope you know the 1st time i came here the ranges didn't even know how to take a dog for a walk i was able to choose some good people but they had no training and no experience of working with dogs or how to look after them i had to start from scratch i also had to learn how to get my message across to trying them. on those fingers. well look try to do it as if you were a dog. the training takes about 2 years during which the dark and the handler build up a relationship of trust they can only work successfully as

a team. you can go right or left left or be this way right would be here exactly. let me ask you did a good job there come on leyla for you and after she snipped it say search. the very earth can someone take that have. bloodhounds don't simply accept orders they are never totally obedient humans have to learn the dog's language and how to interpret the dog's behavior correctly lead her then leave her leave her leave her and now give her time. in difficult situations the handler has to be able to recognize whether the dog is following the trail of the right person. boy khulood hounds can get along with the climate almost anywhere the problem here of course is the whole infrastructure there's hardly

anything in congo there are no shops no department stores not in east congo so i have to import everything we have here in the congo hound unit for the rangers and the dogs in suitcases from switzerland. or i don't have the chance to transport them with a container or anything but i thought it hung. i normally travel to congo with 4 to 6 suitcases and 23 kilos and travel back with just 1 may be at about 12 kilos. we did so coffee left there but it was clearly all. the same with cora. yes it's the same problem so will keep on with the bedpan tain it's hope or was this a lot. of 12 i was for the from the beginning one of the

biggest problems was veterinary care we have to do most of it ourselves. so i've trained my ranges like veterinary assistance they can do general examinations they can give injections or infusions. they can also perform blood tests especially for blood parasites. we have a microscope here and they're very good at using it probably better than me because they do it more often with bob watching you based off he's going to see a form. oh. ok at least he's 4.5 kilos. oh no that's because of your hand. so i made some vision at the moment for example our dogs are pretty thin thinner than they should be.

if you had that we feed them natural food that means beef and rice or potatoes or vegetables oil and a mixture of vitamins and minerals we think. it's good if a dog doesn't have to work and when he's not growing. but unfortunately we've noticed that our 1st puppy bonus has developed growth deficiencies. like for that we tried to find some ready mix food but doesn't exist in congo so now we're importing food from kenya so the dogs are not hungry they get big portions 2 to 3 times a day but for growing dogs or working dogs it's not enough. i . think. the.

lever on the national park is in the middle of a region which has been afflicted by armed conflict for 30 years 600 armed rangers including the dog handlers risk their lives on a daily basis to guarantee the protection of the park they are recruited from the surrounding villages and undertake strict military training. my swore an oath to save wild animals and to protect nature. that's my job and i'm willing to die for it to sacrifice my life to the protection of these

animals they're more reared in the pool of protects from this isn't printer for protecting nature is the 1st priority family comes 2nd. you. didn't get. much cooler i. did then i escaped death once but my friend was killed in 2003. i. i.

for you ready yes it was. everything we protect is of great value for the population. for example. sometimes people take firewood for cooking from the park. if they want to make coal and sell it or will. that is absolutely forbidden as much as poaching suva the poachers are often armed and if you try to stop them it gets dangerous deliberate because if they see you 1st they will kill you is that when the premier. i. i i.

up. the side. has a riot in roman gabo he is presenting his book in the school that christians children attend. but that day but. let's get started. i. sit down. over the next 2 but i think your teacher are giving me the chance to come and present my book to you. we said you are the future of this country and i thought i would make a comic for you with

a story to show you the value of your country's. god i know what it's a little one but here is the story. this is the hero here in the middle. saying his name is louis you separate your wheat and down here do you know what that is is obvious casus are. fish right christiane and my lenz dog. to stop so many animals from being poached. from workers and kidlet that if you know when john pierre was here the 1st time he came to see us and asked me a lot of questions and now when you look at the book i'm even in it was christiane and the rangers of the dog unit are in it too and of course the other rangers. in the desert they've got. their stuff ok i just have one question have any of you ever been confronted with poaching and i. wonder

if you're ready. to see what i'm going to sick and what if the poacher is someone in your family what do you do then. people know about the criminal goings on in the park but they turn a blind eye to it often it's family members who are in some way involved in the poaching sometimes out of necessity to scrape together a living. then there is commercial poaching which is a different story in a spectacular campaign christian help to rescue a kidnapped baby gorilla poachers want to sell it on the black market where sums of up to $40000.00 run off. the animal has since been living in the only mountain gorilla orphanage in the world in the sink where quite center in the veranda national park it was named after christian young mounting residents whose parents were the victim of poaching can find a new home here. ok

ok we have to go back to.

new day poaching is most common place in the savanna areas in the center where there are elephants and big mammals from there we want to be on location quick. if something happens to me the nationality 8 c. but you can still involved stop seemed. a little bit more of take care if you. intent on football in the middle of the park there are more diseases there is c.c. flies which can carry sleeping sickness and that's why i want to kennel area with all round protection with mosquito nets so that the dogs can also be outside at

dusk without being in danger your little 6 at the tap and. yes that's much better. to me it's one of my obligations to pursue this project to. meet. me only. because i was lucky enough to go to libya my 1st year i said back then i'd like to take the dogs to the savannah and from the beginning i was blown away for me it's like paradise it's a place i love to return to it has an amazing 5 and the animals are so quiet and

trusting because they've been protected by ranges for years so that out at night you hear hyenas lions leopards for me it's my absolute dream place. for me officials in absolute the powerful. can be calm that's good keep calm. the way we have got the pits we also been active for about a year when the war broke out again in congo it was the m $23.00 a tootsie group from rwanda which rebelled against the army and the front ran right in front of our headquarters very dramatic and of course very loud it was a war after all

a lot of the villages were injured i help to treat them. although i'm a vet medicine is such a big part of me that everything else is secondary when my help is needed. but i wasn't afraid i just did my job. cause on many front of me or the commode. from an important hole we have a park under great threat it's the place the war the rebels but it's also a place with many natural resources which is what causes all the problems if you ask me it's very important to me that we try to save something. she se us with us was what it is today. on the i can't save the whole planet at once but it matters to me that i make my contribution so at least a small part of this planet can recover.

in switzerland molinar runs farmers' place inclined gitting and a training center for dogs and horses christian informs her daily via social media about what is happening in congo. can also uses the time for fundraising for the congo hound unit she is responsible for most of the funding. if we meet i grew up with dogs the 1st dog i can remember was a boxer after that we had to attack songs. then i watched this lassie series and in

one of the episodes there was a bloodhound called samantha for this samantha had a real character knew exactly what she wanted it was independent but also stab and . that really impressed me and i wouldn't stop pestering my mother until we had our 1st bloodhound a bitch called. marlin invited me to switzerland to do more training as a dog handler so it's nothing like congo nobody can arrest you and the police don't bother people. no auction so soon. it was. hello welcome to our seminar here in test scene. 45 yard 5 years ago i took on the training of all the rangers in congo and soon had

the idea that it would be good for them to experience how other handlers work with their dogs in congo they're the only ones there's no comparison that's why i started inviting rangers here in the autumn we go to training seminars but we also give presentations for what i call talk was. what it. was. but that was. welcome to our presentation on the congo project the congo how project as we call it was named and. it was something going on before we. let you comment. one thought was how will they handle it when they come here from congo one of the poorest countries in the world on

a time it. cxi they see how we live here and how well we live but they also notice that we pay 5 francs 50 for a coffee they can live on that for a week. or. 200 but they really like their own country they have their families and friends there and you can learn to move between these 2 cultures so it's really very positive if. iraq. great. reporting between cuba and key but. yes commander. i think.

it's a real emergency. question that we get the dogs in the car let's go the rangers have to be prepared to be called in and all times they need to be physically fit but mental strength can also be crucial for their survival do it better than. in the 2018 alone 12 rangers were killed in the fight against poachers a total of 175 young men and women have died protecting the park in the last 10 years. to learn to cope with this pressure they regularly train under real conditions. but it is this is delta 6 come in. roger. ok we're on our way

to mission confirmed 6 roger over. 3 tourist a bit to the right. we are watching. you know better than the right the other side.

you know you can't see anything. yet it was only clear. certainly the give away and look for evidence was there i'll fix a dog for it. thank . you. thank. you if. you feel the need to focus on you you didn't take me up. flick flick. flick. you. can. look up but.

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stop now stop. look down there i will move ahead. or is there someone there stop stop. yeah well there you go should. they're going up both of you. but. the news that the docs can trace all criminals has spread thanks to my name is tyler swank with her dog squad and the general

tightening of security in the park poaching has decreased considerably elephants too by about 30 percent of the population of the mountain gorillas is even risen by a. theme for the final goal of this whole project is certainly to get my people so independent that they don't need me anymore it's their country it's their park and they have to be able to do the job themselves so they're not there yet they still need my advice to my support but they're making huge progress. and then thing that really even if marlin stops coming here to the border i'm going

to park i will always need her advice. because she is i could say she's like my foster mother she trains me the right way super she is a very kind mama. they simply won't. prove where to go. but. at the. moment. look there are mountain gorillas just 10 meters away. from. the. look of baby a tiny one so close to its mother. or how cute wow. her

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