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a new baby we will often hang a hang a blanket and the baby will go into there thinking it's the shape of the mother and put his hand up to suckle and i think it's the texture on the face and the fact that it's soft and we're trying to replicate to a point the mother so that he'll put his head on that instinct to put his head out so we can get the bottle to get him to sing the. blues with the world. was being with us all two weeks to the day actually it was two weeks ago today that we rescued with purple and so we crossed the ten day mark i mean he arrived he had very young very vulnerable and we didn't know it was going to be touch and go. and .

deprived of their mothers baby elephants can't survive in the wild without help run like some other animals elephant at a center for orphaned animals to help them get back on their feet and prepare them to return to the wild. to keep a. secret. 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 elephants 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 version bush that they've got to themselves just them the handlers and a few antelope 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 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 for the country and he was found a learn but in an area where there is. currently it's very very hot down there it's a very hostile environment to be a tough environment. we sent

a plane and we connected him. once on the airplane usually depending on the situation of the cop. 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 elephant that is a 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 pat and and put him on the for me that he was and with then realize

that he's a very very young calf he has no teeth he doesn't know how to use his trunk i estimated him on the arrival to be about three or four days old we used. 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 the 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 we have to use the. the term and the turned one. i mean we go.

to find the baby. the one awake during mate with a newborn by spending time about it hours and then we do the dishes. but i'm thinking clearly the limpopo. is so good his limpopo is a little one i'm sure about the one and two x. will do i'm not quite sure i think he's doing so well it is hard to work with these new. young. elephants. toughly sure. we're trying our best to drink first 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 wildlife sanctuary is it's on it's being 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 a 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 slightly different because they can be. and they 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. reproaches with the way they still the problem in this very problem was. covered several. if friends yeah with be. able to talk to me yes it. 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 out there that we're going to be able to use excess to kill off big

excess and they cut the face he said to the fifty forming. a different yeah. our first rescue was a little elephant a moral he was a victim of poaching and 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 trunk and it was it was a moment of recognition it was a moment where we kind of realized the back i realize the magnitude and the responsibility nearly four nearly five years old and she is a strong healthy elephants. by day and i think that's what is really powerful about this project because 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 when they're in there with him in the hallway. this is the sun this crap. has been with us for four years now. and he has

broken back. now. we see his back left leg was broken and fused with him. but he can still walk ok. but you can see where it was. and said it's a two and nine years old now five so he's the oldest one in this group and this is boyle she is not nearly five years all. the. young elephants have come to us. my specialty brutal poaching incidents because sadly the baby elephants often do see their mothers not only be killed but also be cut up and orchard. and that's terrible i mean they carry that with them and sometimes we've had cases where. be elephants have been rescued and brought to us and physically there's nothing wrong with them but they are just so

heartbroken and and they just lose the will to love physically they can be healthy but if they've had too much trauma and they hold on to their trauma they can die they 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 at and i look at you like this and that the whole the whole expression changes and that ears evenly when they're smiling. i have no science. to prove that i can't and i can say yes elephants model they dance. for me with my observations of behavior when an elephant is happy particularly

a baby they whole face lights up and it's just it's just such a special to watch. breaks it down tonality. catch their breath for a single purpose. they have a superman. and they start training very young.

eight months of intensive schooling. rats. and they save lives. you. know if this is a little infant i'll be happy. go die any

elephant all animal but simulating. 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. in twenty seventeen october one hundred twelve. but when seventeen. we discovered it had to be a way of painting elephants which were killed by so you need ways in. india to say no it was to visit or hearing plastic big soft braid used to bridge when the brain just seemed to act in the trees industry was mainly is it was dropping. moisture from the part of the oranges we joined in a part of the plastics so i think that these will be one which i tended to be in a frenzy using this same source merely from a far distance in the old they were also coming from they want to point. to the offending area.

in twenty seventeen china imposed a ban on task every year african customs service is destroyed dozens of tonnes of ivory confiscated from poachers. and birches were killed we. captured one you can hear i doubt. they'd. was there we should have been from across the bench but actually be very well now their trust because using reports. and how many pieces about that

they were there were seven pieces. these are said to seven years big once. more divorce in each person was carrying up what was a force two pieces. of the. body feeling from fifty two. which is northwest in 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 specific. quickly 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 poaching 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 so we were worried about it getting stuck in stead of that we we built this ramp and this. 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 they've stayed since but we still use the sometimes if we need to keep them here the water so they come to drink coulson the day. all the way to consume a national park and then across to botswana so it's a very big area surrounded by a protected area yeah that's what makes it so important for elephants is because it's right in the middle of a network of different protected areas so 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 elephants but for all other animals. it's meant to be. and i go so i can't go. you know so i can go right good go right.

good go. and go. thank you. and this is better no problem no. let's go to. the they're growing bigger. and they've said to settled in 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 are 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 it's 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 so 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 interact. with wild elephants so that one day when they're in the bush they've got their friends 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. 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 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.

poor as ivory. these. elephants for nearly five years now and we care about them but at the same time ow ow mission has always for them been for them to go back to the wild and so it will be mixed emotions for sure we will be very happy when they are living wild and free with their wild competitor it's in the bush but we'll miss them of course . we will miss them of course but most of all we'll be happy for them that they are off free in the wild.

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