that's a good reasonable is not the kind of freedom that we want. how did it become a gateway to islamist terror. you see so you got i mean watching as a neighbor sold. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines in the sights of i.r.s. starts may 20th on d w. only more of. a helicopter chases elephants there are too many here and song goes a bobber. they destroy the vegetation. a 100 elephants have to go. in bins at 5 in 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 yard so. that means trophy

hunting. doesn't have to be this way other 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 be racist giants go. what needs to be done so that they can live in safety over the long term. means. sango is a private game reserve in zimbabwe. that extends over an area of 600 square kilometers . its owner is between pops a german merchant. he's created

a minor paradise here in the middle of the african wilderness. copse passion for wildlife was sparked in 1965 when he went on his 1st photo safari in africa which. it was just. 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 houston 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 there's a love if you will in these species sweet sian's. pops bought song go in

1903 it's located in the saide 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. tops in his neighbor's resettled the 1st elephants almost 600 of them along with other species. according to fox 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 that they can hang its head with horns or tusks on the water. because of the trophy hunting on his land pastas made enemies. but is that rightly so.

the myth is that hunting destroys the entire animal world wanting 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. 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 that are all can decide how many can be shot without endangering the overall population. account as undertaken every year in song 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. answer up the tree to the bank and then we have a camera position so we can take right hand 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. props employees 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 called a war they've committed their lives to protecting animals bryce clements leave the team. he refuses to hunt for trophies because he says people don't often hunt ethically. some areas have been badly badly have meant 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 quota 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 parts. under these conditions even the world wide fund for nature supports trophy hunting the organizations 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 through 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 certain places where it has proven to be a useful conservation tool but those tend to be the exception rather than the rule it's. trophies for animal welfare for many people that simply feels wrong.

but what would be the alternative here in song though. isn't bob 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 then it takes about 6 hours by car to get here 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. under 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 thrown for more than 2000. years. this has led to conflicts with the neighbors. to say valley conservation area surrounded by villages thousands of people live in them and their numbers were on. their own mondo farms 2 hectares of land next to sango his harvest don't amount to much. the innocence comes from. convince the shop in my tent theory coming into our fields and to destroy our plants each and every. destroy our cattle or boulders

a fence around the gamers or parts of it are frequently stolen this leads to constant conflicts between the humans and the animals no. one on the has built a hut on a spiel to protect us harvest when. we come if any to flee. into those moments before. we protect our crops but the thing was we used to we used dramas. but they are not to go our way they just are on the moving i don't do moving around but they'll be i've always if i'm going too much. it's a little calm in the vault just that i don't know it. but the elephants don't just destroy the fields of the neighboring farmers and. they also

destroy their own habitat. humans eat out on course they're in a funk as you can see big elephant 4567 tons brought down this tree just snapped it says as if he just calls it this is not the main problem because the elephant can now feed on the crown and the small antelopes at least peters 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 the food chain not only for the elephants but also for the other leaf eater of sulphur the under the low price and. the extent of the damage is a ments. even the giant bale about trees aren't safe. as a rule of thumb 0.4 elephants per square kilometer is considered acceptable to ensure vegetation can regenerate. pops has considerably more elephants than that he has to cull them otherwise they will destroy their own habitat.

has been granted permission to kill 100 elephants. whole families are set to be slaughtered. is it still possible to rescue them. refocused 800 square kilometers of land to the north of zimbabwe directly on the same basic river. german business with high cost water is leasing and he's a passionate animal rights activist. part of the income from his i.t. company hammers boss goes into the protection of wild animals he made that decision with photos of all. his ron a few young after. many years on safari as a normal tourist i was in south africa sitting with a ranger in the evenings 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 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 don it. was fun to found at the vinyl force a paramilitary protection force for wildlife. it's active in south africa and zimbabwe. and calls for a learned $100.00 elephants were to be killed he had a spectacular idea. the elephants should be moved. and one of a kind rescue operation began thank you 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 or the entire herd will attack their helpers cry. the moment the elephants fall every 2nd counts. if they fall improperly and their trunk is blocked they can suffocate. this elephant has difficulty breathing its weight is pressing on its own lungs. 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 in the georgia. but 1st the heavyweights need to be lifted on to the transporters. it's a critical moment. every move has to be just right. the heat is an additional source of stress for the elephants helpers crew of the water. i from here they're brought to a specially built pad placed on a large truck. 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. and journey to a new home begins. when a force transports the packers. 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. pete 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 now and watch him go free it gives me a chance here. you can fish and chip responsibility that i have a moral responsibility to look after them when i see them go free it makes me stringy happy. then comes the big moment the elephants are released. the new like the weights 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 reefer you can see what happens if there is no sustainable hunting. plummets the commercial hunting started here in the 1980 s. it started with some ethics i mean people were sure to bring things by the book and but that also trenchtown to trying squad to rapidly and unfortunately both parties hunting parties and at that time individuals not not the entire department that individuals. hunters were prescribed an interest in extra animals and that kind of thing. the shooting acquired gave their. the schools of slaughtering elephants told the tale. it was a lucrative business. corrupt employees of

a national park authority and an ethical hunters me good money well the animal population was devastated. chris just hunter off to hunt talk to hunter people getting their nauseous to good hunting. and that's when i really got stuck in and i'm actually just escalated to what we have today all mushed some areas absolutely fucked up totally and absolutely should go. on course want to 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 nothing 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 was i to. since january 28th hunting has been strictly prohibited to refight. the rhino force patrols the area in the air from both sides 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 one of 4 started working 20 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 to chase the animals you need to feed your families which is understandable when lives were at stake and since the national park rangers then got used to it realized that they might be able to sell some things for granted and so we got to the situation where the national park authority was the biggest poacher so to speak it was to. 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. 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 reply. but he has gone one step further he's trying to convince his neighbors to like car fund. he ran a hunting lodge for 30 years and worked as a hunter rector 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. correctly and. they would be an operator that requires as much resources as 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 position to deliver and the situation like this you would have a lot more and if the cool situations we are big cats from a pride of lions or 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 is put down his guns he switched his hunting launched

a photo tourism. it's not easy because hunters pay 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 concession 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 he sense now things are slowly going uphill. he says the region has a lot to offer photo tourists. but. since ronald

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 eat plastic waste individual animals have already died their stomachs hold plastic. that's why close 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 it but if the disc when he's disabled just nothing for 4 nights so we'll see that see before he gives even in 2 days to as much as for us i think these people get to squat for us it's good for everyone it's good for us or 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. vitrine pops

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 end. 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 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 lucas is too much for news then on top of it and to far wild animals are of novell. to the local population they will not protect that shoots 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 in their homes with 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 huge. but. what is the value 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.

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