deprived of their mothers baby elephants can't survive in the wild without help or run like some other animals elephants won't really young that isn't. roxy duncans founded the center for wolf and animals to help them get back on their feet and prepare them to return to the wild. because of. their secret. it. is so the elephants start off the day when the sun rises early in the morning the handlers come they clean out their stables they feed the fence and then they let them out and they walk with them from the nursery. to the bush which is a three hundred take to pisa virgin bush that they've got to themselves just them

and listen a few and to look so they come here in the morning they roam around freely together they feed they eat range of things leaves roots grass different things and they feed. drink water they also swim. in the mud just do things that elephants do and they do it together as a herd so they come here every day and then when it starts getting dark at about four or five o'clock they'll start walking together with they had liz back to the nursery. we got a phone call to say that there was this very young elephant that had been orphaned and he is a victim of touching down in the south of the country and he was found right in. an

area where the is. going on currently it's very very hot down there it's a very hostile environment to be a tough environment so we sent a plane and we collected him. once on the airplane usually depending on the situation of the car. we put up a drip and we administer a few other critical components to making sure that the elephant survives the full journey of the playground this is usually anywhere between and how the hof to three hours. it can be it can be one of the most challenging things because you're in a small airplane you have a one hundred two hundred fifty you know elephants that is that the plane with you and the change in air pressure at the pumps it can make it can make these journeys very difficult.

so we got him and. put him on the for me that he was he and within realised that he's a very very young calf he has no teeth he doesn't know how to use his truncates he's co-ordination is not they it so i estimate him to be i estimated him under arrival to be about three or four days old we use for limpopo we're using a moat called it's twenty six gold this is a human form and ah and we found that this formula. it's not perfect but it works ok. this is calcium. elephants need a huge amount of calcium for their bones so this is actually. dark calcium phosphate and it's been specifically measured. so that we know exactly how much she needs every day so she gets two of these skips every day. what

we also add is some. coconut milk unfortunately it's not fraîche but we don't have coconuts in zimbabwe so we have to use the. the turned the turned one . and then we go. to find the baby. and the one awake during mate with the new ball by spending time about it hours and then we do the dishes but i'm thinking clearly the limpopo. he so will do his. is a neutral one i'm sure about the one. i'm not quite sure but he's doing so well it

is hard to do with we've been. young. it's a tough week. we're trying our best to drink for it's family moved to zimbabwe more than a hundred years ago for five generations they've tried to live in harmony with nature and keep it pristine for their descendants but it is damage that simple objective has become a real mission. so where the wild is life century it's on it's been developed on a family farm i'm a fourth generation zimbabwean my family moved here for generations ago and we've been on this ever since this. is a commercial operation and there are about two and a half thousand people living on this property. we've been looking

after animals led by my mother she has been doing the work on that for more than twenty years but the other animals a slightly different because they can be a released a lot easier and they don't have the same lifetime as an elephant but when she decided to take on this work of looking after the often elephants. we were very excited about it of course but also a little bit nervous because it's such a lifetime commitment and it's a huge responsibility and a massive weight on all of us old shoulders that it was one of happiness because we love elephants so much but also of nervousness of that lifetime commitment to looking after these animals which can live for sixty or seventy years.

i very much as with the weapon so there's still a problem in this area yes very it is a problem was it it will be dreamed up it's was you we discovered several months yeah with the able to talk to me yes it was that was that twenty short you know they have to be i thought ok just so they shoot the elephants painting hunting rifles are going to get a great was how did they take when you're going to be able to use the excess to cut off big access to space and they cut the faces of the fifty falling coal yeah. our first race who was a little elephant a moral who was a victim of poaching she was a tiny tiny little elephant and we didn't know very much about raising elephants at that time so i had done a lot of research and a lot of reading about how to raise baby elephants not realizing quite how

different they are to all the other a million species that i had raised before and i've raised a lot of animals before it really was a big shock and i literally lived that elephant for months and months and months and it was a combination of all of. the physical obviously of a night but also her emotional needs were significant and i found that i was able to really. engage with her and empathize with her. and become a mom. i needed to be her mother. you know i'll never i'll never forget that moment of seeing this little baby elephant run up to me lift up her. it was it was a moment of recognition it was a moment where we kind of realized the mag i realized the magnitude and the responsibility of the work that my mother were doing. while i was now nearly four

nearly five years old. she is a strong healthy elephant. again i think that's what is really powerful about this project is it's a legacy project these animals. they live to sixty seventy eighty years old my mom isn't going to be around to see these animals in there with them in the full way. so the sun is up. and it's been with us for. growth and back late. she is back left leg was broken and fused. but he can still walk ok. but you can see where it was. and. it's a two a nine years old now so he's the oldest one in the script and this is boyle she.

told. the. young elephants have come to. my space really brutal poaching incidents because sadly the baby elephants often do see their mothers not only be killed but also be caught up and watch it. and that's terrible i mean they carry that with them and sometimes we've had cases where. elephants have been rescued and brought to us and physically there's nothing wrong with them but they are just heartbroken and they just lose the will to live physically they can be healthy but if they've had too much trauma and they hold on to that. i can die i can literally die from a broken heart. i

do believe elephant smile i see it in these little ones they hold facial expression changes and this little mouse they look up and i look at you like this and they're the whole the whole expression changes and that the ears even when they're smiling. i have no science. to prove that i can't and i can say yes elephants smile they don't smile for me with my observations of behavior when an elephant is happy particularly a baby their whole face lights up and it's just it's just it's so special to watch .

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the. glory. you. know with this little infant i would be happy why best bozo's. soon my children it's bad to say i'm. sure go die in the elephant or that and i don't want to but it seems like.

the most difficult parts of the job would be. to make a decision. which i don't do very often and i don't take this decision lightly of when to say enough is enough when a baby has become so compromised and is suffering that we have to make the decision to put that animal to sleep. i then have to be strong for the animal i have to be strong for my team i have to be strong for the family but i have my own pain and i can only. deal with my own pain privately.

so this is a very big bull elephant may be thirty or forty years old walking along. we discovered. which were killed by a seine. indeed the same it was two or. plastic bags often used to bridge when the. industry. from the part of the oranges we joined in a part of the plastics so i think that these are all the one which attempted to be using this. from a distance in the old they were also coming from the what a point. to the fitting area.

in twenty seventeen china imposed on task every imports however the number of elephants being killed is not diminishing every year african customs service is destroyed dozens of tonnes of ivory confiscated from. porches were killed we. had one. of them from a cross bench actually the. reports. and

how many pieces and. they were. and. more divorce each christine was carrying out of those a forty two pieces to pieces indeed wasn't. all both of the containment was the body feeling from fifty to fifty four fifty to fifty four k. g.'s. in this in this part of the country which is northwestern zimbabwe close to victoria falls we have leased a vast expanse of land called the panda mystery forest and the reason we have leased this piece of land is specifically for us to have an area where we can eventually release our elephants to be free and live a life of freedom in the wild. but we also wanted to make an impact on the wild

elephant populations that are living there and have been persecuted in the past not only by coaching but by hunting as well we moved the elephants the first six elephants from the nursery near to. all the way up to here to panama city eighteen hour journey it was quite a quite a big one and quite complicated but it went very well and all of the elephants survived and very well. when we brought the elephants here from. the truck came here. we offloaded them here not at the top because we we were worried that. if the truck was going up the hill that it would get stuck we were worried about it getting stuck instead of that we we built this amp and this bomb. so then the truck arrived and then we offloaded them and they walked themselves off into here and then they just spent one or two days here. while

they were settling in and then after that one or two days we opened the gates and we walked them into that main bar my way they've stayed since but we still use the sometimes if we need to keep them here the water's here so they come to drink calcine the day all the way to consume a national park and then across to both. so it's a very big area surrounded by a protected area that's what makes it so important for elephants is because it's right in the middle of a network of different protected areas and it was not safe before from hunting and poaching so it was difficult for elephants to connect those areas now that it's safe and secure creates a much bigger area in terms of the small puzzle of areas this is the middle piece and the last piece which we've now secured that's very good for elephant spoke for all other animals. is meant to be.

hello go circuit go. so ok go right good go. good go. go. go. and this is better no problem no. that's got. the they're growing bigger these in. and they've said to say it's all been extremely nicely so they have adapted to the new food in your environment they're starting to interact and communicate with the other wild elephants we now allowing them to go further and further away from the bombers but it is a slow process and we are taking it very slowly and carefully because they are such big and complex animals so this work is about the protection of land

for these rescued elephants first and foremost but there is a lot of benefits for the wild elephants that live on that land and move through that land which they can do now safely and freely. this is. safe within the fence and the elephants are sleeping inside the night and then over here where we are now is outside in the wild area and that's where there's all kinds of wild wild animals elephants lions buffalo but the whole that's the safe. side yes the wild area. that's where the wild elephants can come out and then they can meet with these elephants in the night we've taken some of the dung of the elephants of the big adult female elephant and we've put it outside the fenced area and the reason for us doing that

is when. the wild elephants are coming around del smell that and they'll smell a female elephant and they can tell and then they will be more interested to interact with these elephants and it's very important for these elephants that interacting with wild elephants so that one day when they're in the bush they've got their friends who are in the bush. understand the laws of the wild so that's why we're doing that is for the wild elephants to get to know these elephants more and more. with. elephants are an important symbol in the culture and the heritage of our country.

it was one of the inspirations for why my mom started the zimbabwe elephant nursery . it was a opportunity to tell a conservation story that often isn't told something that is so that is positive that has that has far reaching implications and i think for myself as a zimbabwean it's really powerful to see how a project. how far a project can reach and this is a symbol for a positive conservation story and it's about. elephants in zimbabwe are looked upon as a commodity at this point and that is a culture that i would like to try and change and i would like more people to try and understand it but in zimbabwe how the animals. think

that they sentience and they they just say majesty and that is one of the reasons why we have this necessity is to try and impart that sense of wonder amongst people in zimbabwe that they're not. just as meat or as ivory. yeah when the elephants leave us they'll be very mixed emotions of course we we've cared for these elephants for nearly five years now and we care about them but at the same time our mission has always for them been for them to go back to the wild and so it will be mixed emotions for sure. we'll be very happy when they are living wild and free with their wild competitors in the bush but we'll miss them of course i can't i can't lie that i won't miss them you know we will miss them of course but most of all

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