so far are. there job censoring for the social media industry. in manila there are thousands of so-called content monitors day for today they scrub terrifying images from online platforms. horrific job for starvation wage the strain it is enormous. for the cleaners social media's shadow industry starts june 8th on g.w. . to get a bit of. a helicopter chases elephants there are too many here and some goes and bob where. they destroy the vegetation. a 100 elephants have to go. it wins at 5 in a committed conservationist for many many years and what we've created here in tsonga is finances to a large extent from the income from sustainable hunting and 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 and we have failed to do for the act. of 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. of. its own or is between pops a german merchant. he's created

a minor paradise here in the middle of the african wilderness. copse a passion for wildlife was sparked in 1965 when he went on his 1st photo safari in africa which. it would. be. nice to 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 look 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 i mean it seems. to pop spot 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 there were no elephants rhinos or lions and. cops and his neighbors resettled the 1st elephants almost $600.00 of them along with other species and stewards according to potts own estimates operating song will cost around $1000000.00 euros a year. around 60 percent is financed through what he calls sustainable use. in other words trophy hunting. big game hunters arrive and shoot an animal so they can hang its head with horns or tusks from the water. 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 but we have a rate of offspring that is probably somewhere around 10 by then this is still sustainable. so there will be no leopard population destroyed anywhere at least it's. a leopard and lion hunt just 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 that are all can decide how many can be shot without endangering the overall population. account is undertaken every year and sancho on

the ground and from the air. a special leopard count is currently under way to do this you call just alexander cooper has placed bacon almost 140 places. 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 cat and the tree to the back 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 you know. 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 bryce 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 hemant in the past other parts of the country certain areas are being over hunted areas where it's not ethical that basically they're all over quiet or they'll shoot more than what they should sometimes and also ois 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 of 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 we do acknowledge that there are certain places where it has proven to be a useful conservation tool but those tend to be the exception rather than the rule as. trophies for animal welfare for many people that simply feels wrong.

but what would be the alternative here in song of. zimbabwe is in a serious crisis and most of the time there's not even electricity it really can photo tourism work here. here's the deepest bush. then the question arises is gasoline available mostly it's not do 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. center pops sango has developed from a rundown cattle farm to a wildlife paradise. the numbers of nearly all species are increasing especially. the 1st

600 have grown to more than 2000. this has led to conflicts with the neighbors. to say valley conservation area surrounded by villages thousands of people live in them and their number is growing . their own mondo farms 2 hectares of land next to sango his harvest don't amount to much. the innocence comes from sam will you convince me to shop it in my tent did it come with you to our fields and to destroy our plans it's indifferently. he could talk. destroy look at all 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 and

always built a hut on this field to protect us harvest. we come if you need to flip it. for a bit. he would protect you but the thing was when you've. you've drama. but not to go away they just sat on the moving i don't do moving around the other ways. i'm going too much. and therefore just that i do know it. but the elephants don't just destroy the fields of the neighboring farmers. they also destroy their own habitat. humans eat head on 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 and 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 and that's destroying us. not only for the elephants but also for the other leaf eater itself or the under the. 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 cull 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 school swatters leasing and he's a passionate animal rights activist. part of the income from his i.t. company goes into the protection of wild animals he made that decision the photos of what. is wrong a few after many years on safari as a normal tourist i was in south africa sitting with a ranger in the evening with him and 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 flies 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 get on it when she. was fun to found at the line will force a paramilitary protection force for a while but. it's active in south africa and zimbabwe. can cause far learned that $100.00 elephants were to be killed she had a spectacular idea. the elephants should be moved. from one of a kind rescue operation began to creep elephants were tranquilized 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 lines. there's a risk that individual animals for the entire herd will attack their helpers

chr them. 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. it's important to cops that he doesn't have to kill the elephants. it's an emotional high point i really can't describe it just give me. 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 of the bush years. but 1st the heavyweights need to be lifted on to the transporters. it's a critical moment. every move has to be just right. i wish each as an additional source of stress for the elephants helpers screw them with water thanks. i. thank you from here they are brought to a specially built pen placed on a large truck. thank . you in the pen.

i thank you. this transport consists of a group of 9 animals. a journey to a new home begins. the line of force transports the packagers. after 24 hours in the truck they have a 1st breath of freedom. the makeshift enclosure is meant to be a place for them to rest. pee clements is the head of the rhino horse here and reef he has rangers protect the animals from poachers. when we have been a guy just going to watch him go free it gives me a chance show. you care for a change of responsibility that i have

a moral responsibility to them when i see them got free admission to the street to be happy. then comes the big moment the elephants are released. a new like awaits. there's a lot of room for the great giants here. the animal population is low hunters and poachers have been taking their toll for decades. in a refight you can see what happens if there is no sustainable hunting.

climate says the commercial hunting started here in the 1980 s. it started with some ethics i mean people were actually. to bring things by the book and but that also trench down to trying squad to rapidly 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. the shooting the quality of their quotation. scrolls of slaughter elephants told the tale. it was a lucrative business. corrupt employees of the national park authority on ethical hunters mean good money well the animal population was devastated. chris just on talk to hunter to hunter people getting their licenses to get on to it and that's when i really got stuck in and i'm here to actually just escalated to

what we have today almost some areas absolutely totally and absolutely shocking. when course one leaves the territory and wanted to ban hunting but was met with resistance from the national park authority. it earns money from every animal but 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 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. yes 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 for her defense was i to. since january 28th hunting has been strictly prohibited

to refund. 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 for a sense the effort cost more than $1000000.00 euros a year. he says when the 104 started working 2800 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 shot some of their bosses then said go out and you can get your share 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 this situation where the national park authority was the biggest poachers so to speak it was. how big is the risk that individual rangers or the state itself will post to 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 are criteria.

the possibility that hunting can be of use 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 if. he ran a hunting lodge for 30 years and worked as a hunt director looking after big game hunters. fun to meet 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 not being run. correctly and. they would be an operator that requires as much as was possible to come out of

a hunting and he would put pressure like metropark sometimes would push an operator there would then put pressure on the on the provision to deliver and in a situation like this you would have a lot more and it's a cool situations we big cats from a pride of lions a beef would be short. trophy hunters also put pressure on the. liver paste 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. under heat as put down his guns use which just hunting launched a photo tourism. it's not easy because hunters take considerably more than photo tourists. but a small concession like ours the thought of having 5 or 10 hunting groups now you have to have 5 or 10 people per day coming through your concision to in order to

give back the same revenue stream so it's a lot more pressure 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 sense now things are slowly going up hill. a. few says the region has a lot to offer photo tourists. since rhino force began to protect animals from poachers the stocks have been recovering. only a few people live in a 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 the plastic waste individual animals have already died or stomach small plastic. that's michael's 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 12th if we but if what is when he says he's saving just now for food for us so we see that see before we get even into this it was much easier for us i think these are budget diskworld for us spoiled for everyone it's good for us or safety is good

for how often least. 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 pups and high schools far more 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

. and pops to see only one solution langford's this is a good 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 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 just too much for move in on top of it and to far wild animals are of no value to the local population they will not protect them shits 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 this. even if pictures like beets regularly cost outrange trophy hunting can be an effective means to promote animal welfare. but the risks of abuse are huge. 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 recognise their true value. kickoff empty stadiums strict regulations the bundesliga has resumed after its coronavirus shutdown the decision is highly controversial and introduces

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