tv Reporter Deutsche Welle January 19, 2020 7:15am-7:30am CET
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here watching the news all have more news at the top of the hour for you up next a reporter episode introducing the black members a group doing great things for the rhinos of south africa say change that and in the meantime of course all the ages headlines are available 247 on our website and it did help me dot com i'm home for about and thanks for your company and i'll see you soon. i think is everything channing the 1st time i became a muslim. so much different culture between here and there challenging for if. the setting was worth it for me to come to germany.
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or governesses to work as a swimming instructor to shine our 2 children $100.00 just want us to just. watch your story take part share it on info migrants dogmas. right now services are in danger of extinction because their origins are prized by . the way to make a better and the black members south africa's only all female group of park rangers are trying to prevent that but the job that i'm doing i'm putting my life in that. reason. every day they fight against poachers in the game reserve on the outskirts
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of kruger national park. yes can women do this more successfully than men. yes just say. it's 6 am late democrat brothers shift is about to begin. the. moment you think it may go when it will not which will. lead to that but it. didn't exist if they didn't put it just slick some of. them just highly use of it that will. later the lives of the black members are to
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small camp in the national park close to 30 women are involved in the project each morning they start their work day by going out in small groups to check the fences . the women go over 12 kilometers of ground on foot following the park's fence line and they're not alone. was it only out on here. that looks like it was only one. of the private bus lulay game reserve borders kruger national park on one side. fear animals can roam freely there are no fences. only the outer border of the reserve is protected. the reason we're having. it is because we we don't want it in the most inside the reserve to give you
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a way to go outside this main road this quite busy because a drive people are driving and driving so fast so if anyone is going always has a way to go out we're going to lose so many of them in a most so i'm not out or is in the fence has a city where trying to protect the you know us from here will. time and again poachers dig under the fence to get into the park most of the world's $20000.00 remaining rhinos live in south africa but around $1000.00 of the animals are killed each year vs this park is home to around 80 rhinos all of them have had their horns cut off this controversial procedure is intended to protect the rhinos from poachers but the horns grow back into a large part of them cannot be removed. rhinos have a huge disability their eyesight is so poor they can't see things that are over 15 meters away this makes them easy prey. so the black members see
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themselves as the rhinos eyes and ears. since we started in 2030 that are you know pushing to cruise by 17 percent of the really push me pushing the cruise by 73 percent so that shows that. we are changing the way things used to be and we are changing the mentality of people because those people who used to come in and put snares or come in in clearing as they can now see that the members are or who speak to. the members collect information and stay in contact with the local population this helps them prevent poaching without the use of weapons. i am sure that women are the best because we are still carrying lobbying and really less so security we don't give information to inability. to do that.
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but in difficult situations the mambas call the anti poaching unit. then. opens up his weapons arsenal. i don't want them to be you. in there this is the one that we carry you see this is an assault rifle you know make for warfare actually and for stuff like this this is fantastic this city when it's in the magazine and i carry 3 magazines. to put it could look like. and might have been that this is a stop known since actually. you never to be a fan of weapons i. had a. good idea if you want to know right i'm not against we have ones i left that are only that you know it is also great there for you know you must train
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a person their right mind seat to use a weapon. and rubber and his team live dangerously recently he found a tracking device underneath his vehicle placed there so poachers can ascertain his exact whereabouts while he's thankful for the information that the black mambas provide he's not totally and now murder of his female counterparts this is all a nice they are drama queens when they come here they think they know who they think they are mr know but they are nothing still even me i'm learning every day and to get the mean death mind change is good important. later has no time to listen to such criticism or work day is long and only ends at 11 o'clock at night. the next morning the black members set up a checkpoint. they want to make sure that no one in the park is in possession of weapons or dead animals. it's reality we work here in the park and have to check
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your vehicle not because we think you've stolen something but just because those are the rules. please open up all the bad. people. do we really have to. yes we have to check everything. the members also look for ordinary wire which poachers used to set traps. just so and then let's say it's coming. and then at the end of that they had of it in place clutching him and hard to him but i was trying to move it to of the snare was just keep going at least until it gets tight and then make the invite and it cannot breeze in and one of the days in
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stooping we saw that was limping and it does not work. and then we try to do right now and. it's like. the black mamas have already found hundreds of snares like these thereby saving the lives of many animals. but in front of the stacks of recovered snares lie the skulls of dead rhinos they serve as a chilling reminder of the animals that did not survive. the says dusk falls the most dangerous part of the black mambas job begins. this is the time poachers set about their work so the women patrol every night. but it's later remembers one close encounter with poachers. they stop at
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10 we go as a must do we did it we're also getting into it and then it's what they does that we need to run. and it was all scary. but all is quiet this evening aside from the sounds of a couple of em dollars and you oppose. sending money but. suddenly it becomes a little too calm and the engine dies out right next to the hippos. is that this is so many times it's all it's all cousin of the best because. it's quite challenging because we're in the borscht it is week 5. because it can just be any time of the day was still yet but it's will have to start.
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the next morning later takes us with her back to her hometown of lluvia county which is not far from kruger park. and she usually works 21 days in a row then has 10 days free when she can see her family the region is underdeveloped economically there are very few prospects over half of south africa . situation. i have to provide for my family. and. everything. people. just want to see. the. economic situation.
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local mines where her father used to work of closed down you no longer works nor does her mother only 2 of her 6 siblings are employed her father is glad later on has a good job. on for. as is my get is ready. to feed norway. so i'm right i'm good if she's with me it's on it's myself it's not i don't feel i don't feel a present my parents have been going through a lot raising me and madison and so it's time flies to provide for all of our lives well myself it's good to be born in a big family because if i don't have something i can depend on my studies always somebody who can have me. on her way back to work later visits the hoed sprue it endangered species center. here in a taj looks after orphaned rhinos whose parents were killed by poachers. and it
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has happened so many times it's the rhino sees its mother being shocked and it does affect it really does affect to see the and by the being killed who would have to feel poor mama stopped waking up it's it's heartbreaking. for me the visit reminds later on why her job is so important. to you but in this generation like each to not doing so if we did all the right. it would never annoyed the rain as there was just seating peaches but the we'll never get to see. so despite the risks later myka baylor will continue to get up every morning before 6 to go out on patrol and save the rhinos. the phone.
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