well. when we have 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 it's the texture on the face and the fact that it's soft and we're trying to rip to a point the mother said that he put his hand up that that instinct to put his head

out so we can get the bottle to get him to. go to. being with us all two weeks to the day actually it was two weeks ago today that we rescued with hope and so we crossed the ten day mark i mean here i have a 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 i'm like some other animals elephants won't really young that isn't. found at a center for orphan dynamos to help them get back on their feet and prepare them to return to the wild. the goodness of their. i'm going to. this.

is so the elephants start off the day when the sun rises in the morning the handlers come they clean out the 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 here 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 it been orphaned and he is a victim of pitching down in the south of the country and he was found 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 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. well

jane you know there are a playwright this is usually anywhere between and how the hof to realises. it can be that to 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 in the plane with you and the change in air pressure the bobs it can make it can make these journeys very difficult. so we got him half and. put him on the formula that he was he and we then realize that he's a very very young calf he has no teeth he doesn't know how to use his truncates he's coordination is not they it sigh estimates him to be i estimated to memorize all to be about three or four days old we used for limpopo we're using

a moco is twenty six gold this is a human formula 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. die calcium phosphates 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. cannot milk unfortunately it's not trace but we don't have confidence in zimbabwe so we have to use the. the ten and the ten and want. and then we go. to find a baby. the

one. with the spin to tell me about it and then we do. the limpopo. is a literal one i'm sure about the one. i'm going. to he's doing so will. these. young. elephants. it's a tough choice 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 in is damage that simple objective has become a real mission. where

the wildlife sanctuary it's on it's been developed on a family farm so i'm a fourth generation zimbabwean my family moved four 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 slightly different because they can be a lot easier 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. 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's a problem was it will be dreamed up for us yet we discovered several friends yeah with the able to talk to me yes it was that it was a 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 do they take over when you're going to be able to use the excess to

chop off big access to space and they cut the faces cut to the fifty forming. a different yeah. our first rescue was a little elephant a moyal who 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 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. 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 elephants 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 bag i realize the magnitude and the responsibility of the work that my mother was doing. while i was no nearly four. nearly five years old and 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 when they're in there with them in the hallway.

this is the sun that screwed up. these days with us for four years. and he had a broken back late. you see is that cliff leg was broken and fused to him. but he can still walk ok. but you can see where it was. and. it's a two and nine years old now so he's the oldest one in the school and this is boyle she is not nearly five years all. the. young elephants have come to us. yes specially brutal coaching 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 they show expression changes and this little mouse. they look up and i look at you like this and there the whole the whole expression changes and that's the ears even 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 it's so special to watch. but politicians do something a little. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to. have to go to the

press this is like the four three in the morning can't be good but i'm interested always in the was in the house. they said. that bread for a single purpose. they have a soup the minute. they start training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. their reps. and they save lives. as we continue to grow online with our online identities and personas you will continue to see this mixture of physical crime and internet crime and the two will melt to a point where they're almost indistinguishable it is you can't really distinguish

them at all. we know we're good busy little infant i'll be happy why best bozo's. soon my children it's bad to say i'm. sure go die any elephant all 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. in twenty seventeen october. seventeenth. we discovered that if they were. elephants which were crude device a unique ways in india they say no it was too. plastic bags of use to bridge when the. trees. was dropping some moisture from the in a part of the oranges which way in the inner part of the plastics so i think that is all the one which attracted the elephants using this same source merely from a far distance in the old they were also coming from they want to point. to the fitting area.

twenty seventeen china are imposed on task every imports however the number of elephants being killed is not diminishing every year african customs service has destroyed dozens of tonnes of ivory confiscated from poachers. and were killed. in. front of them from a cross bench trial of the now. reports. and

how many pieces about. there were. more divorce in each. of the. fifty. in this in this part of the country 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 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 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 and we 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 amp 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 reopen the gate and we walked them into that main way they've stayed since but we still use the sometimes if we need to keep them here the water so they come to drink else and 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 and it was not safe before from hunting and poaching so it was difficult for elephants to connect does 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. hello go second go. you know so i can go right good go right good go. go. go. and this is better not problem now i. that's got. the they're growing bigger these indecent. and they've said to settled in extremely nicely so they have adapted to the new food the new 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 fish 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 has 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 they'll 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. the stand 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. the animals. think. they sentence 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 mates 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 will 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 lie that i won't miss them you know we will miss them of course but most of all we'll be happy for them that they are free in the wild. in the world of political much making the european union has long put values before wealth as its most desirable and tribute. to the time it takes for the e.u. to make a policy decision china can set up a whole new industry values that's attractive to potential partners.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. now if there was a crisis seems to do crack when i was a little kid my dad he was like. us to be so you know like what i needed when i was a baby but i had a bad childhood. there's always been single mothers in african-american community service and slavery. i think it's more of these teenagers having kids and you can expect a fourteen or fifteen year old first daughter now order for him maybe

a far there and he said check out. we actually lost our place in october my car end up breaking down and i was unable to get to work on time sunday let me go in with my paycheck that i bring home i have merely enough to pay my car insurance. gas and my car. you know the little business.

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