try it all of them come straight from the heart to its former c.e.o. you've been hoarding the money and dealers in the marsh school and you wish harm. from the fruit of the law and to their final resting place the russians on g.w. documentary. the. helicopter chases elephants there are too many here in song goes on bob. they destroy the vegetation. 100 elephants have to go. to concerts i've been a committed conservationist for many many years and what we've created here in sango is finances to a large extent from the income from sustainable hunting so. that means trophy hunting doesn't have to be this way are there no other options than if we have to

use hunting as a means to save the animals here on our territory when we have failed. the protecting animals from poachers of expensive how can this be financed in a place without much tourism and where should these were racist giants go. what needs to be done so that they can live in safety over the long term. i mean. some go as a private game reserve in zimbabwe that extends over an area of 600 square kilometers. its owner is beautifully poshest a german merchant. he's created a minor paradise here in the middle of the african wilderness.

tops a passion for wildlife was sparked in 1965 when he went on his 1st photo safari in africa. and. it was. a see i'm fascinated by elephants but if you look at them and you see how families work together how they play with each other and then there's almost something human about it. you know we were out yesterday and looked at the wild dogs it was like a kindergarten are they really so different from us i mean there's a closeness there's an appreciation or there's a love if you will in these species speed since. it's pops bought sango in 1903 it's located in the say valley conservancy

a vast nature reserve bigger than luxemburg. at that time there were only bankrupt cattle farms here and there were no elephants rhinos or lions. to cops than his neighbors resettled the 1st elephants almost 600 of them along with other species. to see according to pops own estimates operating song will cost around $1000000.00 euros a year. around 60 percent just fine as for what he calls sustainable use. in other words trophy hunting. big game hunters arrive and shoot animals so that they can hang its head with horns or tusks on the wall. because of the trophy hunting on his land popstars made enemies. but is that rightly so. the myth is that hunting destroys the entire animal world hunting takes out very

few animals. for example if we have $100.00 leopards and we shoot maybe 4 of them a year yes but we have a rate of offspring that is probably somewhere around 10 bites then this is still sustainable. so there will be no leopard population destroyed anywhere. it's. a leopard and lion is taking place as we make our documentary but we're not allowed to film. fear of the effect the pictures could have is too great. and. sustainable hunting needs reliable numbers only those who know how many animals at all can decide how many can be shot without endangering the overall population. account is undertaken every year and so on go on the ground and from the air. a special leopard count is currently underway to do this you call just

alexander cooper has placed big in almost 140 places. and basically as you can see we position a base of the top of the tree here and then we have a leading oh and this forces the cap to answer up the tree so the bait and then we have a camera position so we can take right on side pictures of each one and they have unique fingerprint i.d.'s on the sides so we individually identify each individual . pops seeks the advice of an ecologist to determine whether there are enough or too many of a specific species. while individual animals are killed by trophy hunters the income generated from the hunts is used to protect the remaining animals. the struggle against poachers is particularly expensive pops in. ploys 44 rangers to protect animals. there are also elite troops that he

supports they specialize in endangered species such as rhinos. the troops are armed with heavy weapons. the rangers call it a war they've committed their lives to protecting animals rights clements lead the team. he refuses to hunt for trophies because he says people don't often hunt ethically. some areas have been badly badly hammond in the past other parts of the country certain areas have been over hunted areas where it's not ethical and basically they're all over quarter they'll shoot more than what they should sometimes and also or is picking the biggest trophies that kind of thing so what you end up finding is is the wildlife population in general guys down . trophy hunting can do great harm to an animal population but it can also be

beneficial carried out responsibly as is the case with parks. under these conditions even the world wide fund for nature supports trophy hunting the organization's policy manager says what many animal rights activists don't want to hear. we do recognize that in certain let limited circumstances it can be part of the conservation armory if you will one conservation tool but in the majority of circumstances it's not sustainable there are many problems associated with it but this isn't outright opposition in the sense that if we do acknowledge that there are trophies for animal welfare for many people that simply feels wrong . but what would be the alternative if you're in song go. boys in a serious crisis and most of the time there's not even electricity it can photo tourism work here. unfortunately it's very difficult to bring tourists here we have

to think about how to do it we fly from abroad to the capital harare and it takes about 6 hours by car to get here the deepest bush. then the question arises is gasoline available mostly it's not good they have cash after all you have to be able to buy something on the go and that's usually not the case either so it's very very difficult to actually get to this faraway wilderness the dreamland of africa as a tourist. pops sango has developed from a rundown cattle farm to a wildlife paradise. the numbers of nearly all species are increasing especially the elephants. the 1st 600 have thrown for more than 2000. this has led to conflicts with the neighbors. perceval the conservation area

surrounded by villages thousands of people live in them and their number is growing . there in mondo farms 2 hectares of land next to sango his harvest don't amount to much. innocence comes from sam will convince the shop where martin did it come we have to offer and to destroy our plans it's indifferently. he can't talk. although there's a fence around the gamers are parts of it are frequently stolen this leads to constant conflicts between the humans and the animals no. one under has built a hut on this field to protect us harvest. it if you need

to flee be. before. he would protect you but there is nothing when you've. used dramas. but they are not to go away they just that i won't be moving i don't do moving around it will be always. i'm going too much it will come in the fall. but the elephants don't just destroy the fields of the neighboring farmers. they also destroy their own habitat. as you can see big elephant 4567 tons brought down this tree just snapped. this is not the main problem because the elephant can now beat on the crown and

small antelopes leap eaters live off of it that makes sense the problem is the tree is dead and we've now lost a 3rd of this type of forest one that's destroying the food chain not only for the elephants but also for the other leap eternal for the under the press and. the extent of the damages amends. even the giant bay about trees aren't safe. as a rule of thumb 0.4 elephants per square kilometer is considered acceptable to ensure vegetation can regenerate. pop has considerably more elephants than that he has to culver otherwise they will destroy their own habitat. has been granted permission to kill 100 elephants. whole families are said to be slaughtered . is it still possible to rescue them.

refocused 800 square kilometers of land to the north of zimbabwe directly on this n.b.c. river. german businessman high schools father is leasing and he's a passionate animal rights activist. part of the income from his i.t. company hammers boss that goes into the protection of wild animals he made that decision in the photos of. after many years on safari as a normal tourist i was in south africa sitting with a ranger in the evenings when i asked him what his biggest problem was he was a big tough guy but he said to me in tears that he had lost his friends the elephants and rhinos who were being slaughtered like flights and right then it was clear to me that i could do something about it i could help the animals with hammers box backing we could make a difference you don and she. was fun to found at the will force a paramilitary protection force for a while but. it's active in south africa and zimbabwe.

because for a learned that $100.00 elephants were to be killed he had a spectacular idea. the elephants should be moved. from one of a kind rescue operation began to creep elephants were trying to hide from the air crew. it's a dangerous maneuver. veterinarians and helpers on the ground must be as close as possible to the elephants when they're trying to line so there's a risk that individual animals or the entire herd will attack their helpers cool. them. moment the elephants fall every 2nd counts.

if they fall in properly and their trunk is blocked they can suffocate. this elephant has difficulty breathing its weight is pressing on its own lawns. the helpers have to do something. that's important to fox but he doesn't have to kill the elephants. it's an emotional high point i really can't describe it just give me a. listen and it makes me well up it says it's highly emotional. relocating these animals and seeing how they multiply at the other end repopulating a wildlife park that's been depopulated by poachers is the dream of every conservationist in the dorset. but 1st the heavyweights need to be lifted on to the transporters. that's

a critical moment. every move has to be just right. i think he does an additional source of stress for the elephants helpers crew of the water i. i. i from here they're brought to a specially built pen placed on a large truck. thanks . in the pen the elephants are given a stimulant and wake up. this means they can run into the big truck themselves.

this transport consists of a group of 9 animals. the journey to a new home begins. when one of force transports the packet arms. after 24 hours in the truck they have a 1st breath of freedom. and. the makeshift enclosure is meant to be a place for them to rest. he clements is the head of the rhino force here in reef he has rangers protect the animals from poachers. when we have been there and watch him go free education show. with your fish and chip responsibility that i have

a moral responsibility to look after them and when i see them go free it makes me truly happy. then comes the big moment the elephants are released. a new life for weeks and. there's a lot of room for the great giants in. the animal population as long hunters and poachers have been taking their toll for decades. in ri for you can see what happens if there is no sustainable hunter.

climate science the commercial hunting started here in the 1980 s. it started with some ethics i mean people who are sort of green finished by the book and but that also trenched and i trying squad to record me and unfortunately both parties hunting parties and at that time individuals not not the entire department but individuals. hunters were persuading them to sell them extra animals and that kind of thing so i crossed the overshooting acquire their quotations. the skulls of slaughtered elephants told the tale. it was a lucrative business. corrupt employees of the national park authority and an ethical hunters made good money while the animal population was devastated. here chris just on talk to hunter to hunter people getting their launching shoes to get on to. and that's when they really got stuck and are actually just added to

what we have today all much some areas absolutely totally and absolutely shocking. when cause for lease the territory he wanted to ban hunting but was met with resistance from the national park authority. it earns money from every animal that it allows to be shot quite legally. the money from the hunting licenses is an important source of income for the authority. this means that if there is no hunting and the authority loses money there's often that's not part of the head of the national park authority told me very clearly that in the end we can do anything as long as he has the same income that he would have if there had been hunting in this territory here. that's the only way is to compensate for this in other words we pay for animals that we don't hunt and we have the national park authority on our side was lied to. since january 28th hunting has been strictly

prohibited and before. the rhino force patrols the area in the air from boats and on the ground. the rangers not only protect grief but also the surrounding area . it's an area of around 10000 square kilometers. because forest says the effort cost more than $1000000.00 euros a year. he says when the rhino for started working 28000 it turned out that the rangers from the national park authority were also poaching . the reason for this was the drastic economic situation in zimbabwe. the rangers had not been paid for months and. then shift some of their bosses then said go out and you can get your share you chase the animals you need to feed your families which is understandable when lives were at stake and the national park rangers then got used to it realized that they might be able to sell some things

and so we got to the situation where the national park authority was the biggest poacher so to speak your. help because the risk that individual rangers or the state itself will poached the animal population. according to the. the more difficult the economic situation and the greater the corruption. the greater the risk. that's quite tempting to some countries especially where the rule of law is weak and where where governments might be weak to milk the resource for the short term and that's in our experience the most common. failing of trophy hunting and the reason why most trophy hunts wouldn't meet our criteria.

the possibility that hunting can be abused is among the reasons why course for a completely abolished it in return. but he has gone one step further he's trying to convince his neighbors to. find out. he ran a hunting lodge for 30 years and worked as $100.00 director looking after big game hunters. fun to eat ensure their safety and lead them to the hunting grounds. he knows the dark side of the business and how much pressure both the owners of a wildlife area and the national park authority can exert. both sides and money from each trophy. sometimes you have a concession which is which is not being run. crick the end. they would be an operator that requires as much resources as possible to come out of

a hunting and he would put pressure on the box sometimes would push an operator there would then put pressure on the on the provision to deliver and you would have a lot more and it's a cool situations we big cat from a pride of lions a beat would be short. here trophy hunters also put pressure on the. liver paid tens of thousands of euros for $100.00 does not want to go home without a trophy. whether the hunt is ethical and sustainable in such a situation depends on the determination of the hunt director to. find out he does put down his guns he has switched his hunting lodge to photo tourism. it's not easy because hunters pay considerably more than for the tourists. but a small concession like ours the thought of having 5 or 10. groups a year now you have to have 5 or 10 people per day coming through your concision to

in order to give back the same so it's a lot more pressure on on an operation to you to be able to change the financial stream from hunting to not hunting. shooting pictures instead of wildlife can this model work here in crisis ridden zimbabwe. the beginning was financially difficult funda heat sales now things are slowly going up hill. he says the region has a lot to offer photo tourists. since rhino forced began to protect animals from poachers so the stocks have been recovering. only a few people live in the protected area and yet there are already conflicts. she don't know is located on the outskirts of reef run 4000 people live here.

alongside the wild animals. monkeys come here attracted by leftover food and sources of water. but so do elephants. again and again there are clashes between humans and animals sometimes they're fatal. there's another problem the elephants eat plastic waste individual animals have already died their stomachs hold plastic. that's why course farai has started another project. 12 women most of them unemployed single parents collect trash they get vouchers for food and cosmetics. it's a tough call if we but if we're discreet he's saving just now for food for us so we'll see that see before we get into d.c. it was much easier for us i think this if i get the scoop for us it's good for

everyone it's good for us for safety it's good for our families. humans and elephants benefit from the garbage project but in the long term the conflict between humans and animals will intensify here because the number of elephants will increase as will the number of humans the living space is becoming more cramped for both and not only in zimbabwe. because the population africa is exploding the pressure on the wild areas is increasing. the fight for resources has already started. how can humans and wildlife exist side by side when there's less and less room for them. visually pops and in high school for huge sums of money into the protection and operation of the wildlife areas every year. we have or without a trophy hunt the bottom line is that both are in the red. they do it because they care about africa's wildlife. but who protects animals when there is no rich donor

. cause father and pops to see only one solution to life is this a big story in the long run the only way is through the people who live here through the communities that need to gain something from the animals to give us why should i protect something that means nothing to me and from which i draw no benefit. benefits can mean workplace food prospects for the future but these have to be created otherwise it will be impossible to solve this problem in the commish is too much for me and old leviton to far wild animals are of no value to the local population they will not protect them and imagine that the poachers arrive through the villages however if the villagers are already very much aware of the value of these animals and the poachers will not find a home there this means that the value of the animals is fundamental to the survival of nature conservation. the income from photo tourism creates this value.

but not every area is suitable for those. even if pictures like beats regularly cause outrange trophy hunting can be an effective means to promote minimal welfare . but the risks of abuse are few. what is the value of elephants rhinos and lions have for humans and not just as an ideal. the animals will only have a chance of long term survival if humans can recognize their true value. india. using some of the politics here again to feel.

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