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a little nugget. you made for mines. every 2 months modern at santa 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. is an internationally sold off to specialist in man trailing which means she trains dogs specifically to track people down. their services are required in particular in the northeast of congo in the national park. where ruthless brutal poaching is
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in danger in 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 cold 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 especially 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
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to congo in february 20th levon. all. lever 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.
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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 calm. i thank. you general design 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 with 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 and even as i get
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most of them also to also know that what i now. marlaina discusses the training plan with christian the leader of the congo hound hewn it. cory booker yes bobby's not cooperating as usual he's resistant to going to book one. every year and i think that. was the last just a minute wait. he doesn't want to go in. if 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. careful oscar quiet. that's what.
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i. plan town soon get used to their training territory man always takes how to talk unit from the roman garbo the administrative center to new places in the park that bloodhounds need to be able to find their way in all kinds of surroundings. i. mean. this is. the 2nd most everything listen to bit the breed we have here the bloodhound is new for us what they were the 1st time i saw these dogs i was afraid of them i didn't like them. not even our ancestors kept dogs and. then when i saw these bloodhounds with their long years and huge noses i thought they were really bizarre. which to.
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me just. from the very 1st day as soon as the dogs arrived i started working with it but i got used to them after a while. doing that my then i changed my career from being a gamekeeper to a dog handler. there are actually $0.02 after the other motivation means trying the hand then they're off on a longer trial. so. look up on the left ok. you. want to see if. there are 8 of us handlers and the dog unit. each of us has his own dog i'm dodi's handler i'm really happy and proud of her
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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 to send titan to pick a 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. in the film but 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.
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i. was. jumpy azure co a retired psychometrist from ban heard about the anti poaching project from alena. you can see it. 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 john piers i'm looking for a radio titan or a yes it's here. yeah great hi pleased to meet you.
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wish what ok you can start recording. it's only had you thought you know can you say radio tie in to that you know we. were a radio station specialized in nature conservation here in goma what is the reason for your visit. the reason for my visit is to talk about my comic book about conservation here in congo in particular about protecting the national park. and what so it's a comic book especially for children. why did you create this book. i want to use this comic to show what natural treasures you have here in your country and that they are in danger like nature all over the world with you. feel 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
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something to the beautiful nature you have here. as even though there's nothing like this here in congo there are lots of fact books but nothing for children there is no distributor in congo 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 shock 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. ok. to me but i'm sorry i'm late. yes you're very late the head teacher has been expecting you since 9 o'clock or 6 or 7 minutes late it's
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no big deal. what. i. look at this children. it's. going to be. 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. yes they are wild animals thank you. even though
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who is threatening the park. you have to know this if we're going to fight this threat. yet there are poachers. going by these poachers good people. should the poachers be protected. 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. and. almost. if there. was.
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no you don't the focus of the village population sees the dogs with a mixture of great curiosity and fear in the beginning they shouted simba swahili for a line. about how the 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 you know the tree. of all dogs the bloodhound has one of the best developed senses of smell it is capable of sniffing the scent of a certain person and following it weeks later over distances of many kilometers.
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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. no but. come here lila show us. to clearly identify the person so what the don't get stopped on its back legs is
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then rewarded. who. we all hope your 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 that i let the congo's fail to. look try to do it as if you were
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a dog. the training takes about 2 years during which the doc and the handler build up a relationship of trust they can only work successfully as a team. go right or left left to 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 sniffed it search. very good 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 lead 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
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trail of the right person. the board cool bloodhounds 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 or 23 kilos and travel back with just 1 may be at about 12 kilos. we did so the. same with korea where. yes it's the same problem so we'll keep on with the bedpan
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tain it's hope or the lack. of qualifies 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 and. 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 operating base healthy is consistent form think. was. ok at least is $4.00 kilos. oh no that's because of your hand. that. ok. so i made some vision at the moment for
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example our dogs are pretty thin thinner than they should be. if you had that we feed the natural food that means beef and rice or potatoes or vegetables oil and a mixture of vitamins and minerals and all of me think it's good if a dog doesn't have to work and when he's not growing like that but unfortunately we've noticed that our 1st puppy bonus has developed a growth deficiencies of the uptick 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.
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i. think. my. 'd 'd 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. i. mean i swore an oath to save wild animals and to protect nature. that's my
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job and i'm willing to die for it to sacrifice my life to the protection of these animals them or even depend on my feet for threats from this is i'm. printed for texting nature is the 1st priority in the family come 2nd. to do. it. i . did this i escaped death once and then but my friend was killed in 2003.
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i. recall you ready yes it was. everything we protected is of great value for the population. for example. sometimes people take firewood for cooking from the park. or they want to make coal and sell it. and that is absolutely forbidden as much as poaching. suva the poachers are often armed and if you try to stop them it gets dangerous and liberal because if they see you 1st they will kill you is that when the premier.
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i think. i. was up. to the side. has arrived in rome on gabo he's presenting his book in the school that christians children attend. what they like. let's get started. sit down. a little homemade but i think your teacher are giving me the chance to come and
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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. east and his name is louis you separate your wheat and down here do you know what that is is obvious casus our. mission right christiane and my lens dog to stop so many animals from being poached. to refuse and carried with their device you know when john pierre was here the 1st time he came. to see us and asked me a lot of questions now when you look at the book i'm even in it as christiane and the rangers of the dog unit are in it too and of course the other rangers. in this book they've got. stuck ok i just have one question have any of you ever been
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confronted with poaching. wonder if. you know how can you stick a gun 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 perching 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 ran off up the animal has since been living in the only mountain gorilla orphanage in the world in the sink when center in the the wrong
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a national park it was named after a christian young mounting a religious whose parents were the victim of poaching can find a new home here. ok
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ok we have to go to. build a coaching is most common place in the savannah areas in the center where there are elephants in big mammals from there we want to be on location quick. if something happens to me i've been asked now allocate seaven you can so involved stop when. i learned to do more of take care yes thank you. intent on football in the middle of the park there are more diseases there is c.c.
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flies which can carry sleeping sickness and that's why i want to kennel area with all round protection with mosquito net so that the dogs can also be outside at dusk without being in danger your little 6 at the tap. so yes that's much better. to me it's one of my obligations to pursue this project to. my. belief. because i was lucky enough to go to libya my 1st year i said back then i'd like to
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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 that was a for me a fish tells me not the pal boy. can he come that's good keep calm. and the way. the pits real been active for about a year when the war broke out again in congo it was the m $23.00 a tutsi group from rwanda which rebelled against the army and the front ran right
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in front of our headquarters very dramatic and of course very loud it was a war after all a lot of the villagers were injured i helped 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 a woman to find out for me or pick not. from and in particular 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. if southeast texas with us was at peace today. because i can't save the whole planet at once but it matters to me that i make my contribution so at least
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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. minor also uses the time for fundraising for the congo hound unit she is responsible for most of the funding.
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it's been meeting i grew up with dogs the 1st dog i can remember was a boxer after that we had to dax once. then i watched this lassie series and in one of the episodes there was a bloodhound called samantha. this samantha had a real character knew exactly what she wanted it was independent but also stab and . so that really impressed me and i wouldn't stop pestering my mother until we had our 1st blood hound a bitch called car god. madam and my my lead invited me to switzerland to do more training as a dog handler and it's nothing like congo nobody can arrest you and the police don't bother people. no.
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it was. hello welcome to our seminar here in test scene. for 5 yards 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 are called joke was. funny and oh yeah was. that funny that was. welcome to our presentation on the congo project the congo how project as we call it nina and. donald before we.
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let you go and then. i get down to just one thought was how will they handle it when they come here from congo one of the poorest countries in the world on it. 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 keep.
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us commander. it's a real emergency. mission that will 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 who is let them down. in the year 2018 alone 12 rangers were killed in the fight against poachers a total of $175.00 young men and women have died protecting the park in the last 10 years. to learn to cope with this pressure they regularly train on the real conditions.
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this is delta 6 come in. roger. ok we're on our way to mission confirmed 6 roger over. here a tourist a bit to the right of where the watch. you . know better than the right the other side.
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you see i can't see anything. yet it was only clear. said leave the paperwork and look for evidence why sure i'll fix a dog for. thank . you. if you feel the need to focus and you didn't have a. few . friends.
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you. can. look up. a fresh look at to get to know. who. doesn't.
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only. place. stop now stop. look down there i won't move ahead. or is there someone there stop stop or i'll shoot. you hear your bullshit well they're going to. get up both of you.
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the news that the docs can trace all criminals has spread thanks to man and his tireless work with a dog squad and the general tightening of security in the park poaching has decreased considerably off elephants to by about 30 percent 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 but they're not there yet they still need my advice to my support but they're making huge progress.
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and then thing that will even if marlin stops coming here to the bar 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. clayson theme i want. to go. but. not many. and then we're going to look there are mountain gorillas just 10 meters away.
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