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point. put it into that instinct put it out so we can get the bottle. was being with us now all two weeks to the day actually it was two weeks ago today that we rescued me and so we crossed the ten day mark i mean he arrived very young very vulnerable and we didn't know it was going to be touch and go. deprived of their mothers' baby elephants can't survive in the wild without help unlike some other animals elephants won't real young that isn't. found to the scent of folk wolf and animals to help them get back on their feet and prepare them to return to the wild.
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to be ok. because. this. is so they elephants start off the day when the sun rises 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 version bush that they've got to themselves just the handlers and 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
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four or five o'clock they'll start walking together with they had loads back to the nursery. full or we got a phone call to say that there was this very young elephant that had been orphaned and he is a victim of poaching down in the south of the country and he was found a learn but in an area where there 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 cop. we put up a drip and we administer
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a few other critical components to making sure that the elephant survives the full journey of the playground this is usually anywhere between an hour 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 pat and. put him on the for me 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 co-ordination is not they it is to make him to be i estimated to mount arrival
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to be about three or four days old we use four limpopo we're using a moat called it's 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. dye 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. i mean we go. to find the baby.
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the one awake during mate with the new ball by spending time about it and then we do want to share. it with the limpopo is so good his limpopo is a little one i'm sure about the one and two exploded i'm not quite sure i think he's doing so well it is hard to work with these. young. elephants. it's a tough week. 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. where
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the wildlife sanctuary it's on it's been developed on the family farm 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 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
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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 saw much but also of nervousness of that lifetime commitment to looking after these animals which can live for sixty or seventy years. i very purchased with the weapon so there's still a problem in this area yes very it's a problem was it will be dreamed up are true as you 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
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elephants training hunting rifles are going to get a great was how to detect when you're going to be able to use excess to chop off big excess and they cut the faces cut to the fifty forming a skull that they're different yeah. our first rescue was a little elephant they moyo 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
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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 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 bag i realized the magnitude and the responsibility of the work that my mother was doing and why 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 in there with him in the
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hallway. this is the sun this screwed up. these days with us for all. the broken back later. you see is that cliff 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 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 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
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sometimes we've had cases where. 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 up and i look at you like this and that 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
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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 so special to watch. i don't know if there was a crack seems to do crack when i was a local my dad he was like a bust so you know i got like what i needed when i was a baby but i had
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a bad childhood. there's always been single mothers and african-american community service and slavery. i think it's more of these teenagers having kids in you can expect a fourteen or fifteen year old first daughter now order for him maybe a far there and he's a check out. we actually lost our place and. my car end up breaking down and i was unable to get to work on time so they let me go in with my paycheck that i bring home i have nearly enough to pay my car insurance. gas and my car. in the world of political much making the european union has long good values
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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. then you should look into. this edition. of the first one to the finish we just finished for most of the budget. cuts you'll see me just who do want to do. you think if it was national level off. the top of the put it. it was miserable of course for some. of these critics one
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. know we've got this little infant i'll be happy why best was i was. soon my children it's bad to say i'm. sure. any elephant all that and i don't know 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
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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 in a way. which were crude device a unique ways in. india the same it was to visit. in plastic bags of used to braid when they. interact in the trees industry. is it was
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dropping some moisture from the part of the oranges which way in the inner part of the plastics so i think that is all the one which i tried to be using this sense or smelly 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 is destroyed dozens of tonnes of ivory confiscated from poachers.
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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 harare. the
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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 instead of that we we built this 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 walk them into that where they've stayed since but we still use the sometimes if we need to keep them here the water so they come to drink in 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 that's what makes it so important for elephants is because it's
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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 parcel 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. a logo so i can't go. you know so i can go right good go right. good go. go. go. and this is better no problem no let's go to. the they're growing bigger. and they have said to say it's all been extremely nicely so they have adapted to
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the new food in your environment they're starting to interact and communicate with 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. the safe area within the fence and the elephants 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 elephants wild animals elephants lions buffalo. and
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these holes yeah that's the safe area and then outside he has the wild area. that's where the wild elephants can come out to and 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 day i interacting with wild elephants so that one day when they in the bush they've got their friends who are in the bush. understand the laws of the wild so that's why we doing that is for the wild elephants to get to know these elephants more and more.
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elephants are an important symbol in the culture and the heritage of our country and it was one of the inspirations for why my mum started zimbabwean life and this week. it was a opportunity to tell a conservation story that often isn't told something that is that is paul. 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
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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 china understand within 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 looked on just as meat whole as ivory. you know in 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
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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 wild compared to its 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. for a single purpose. of
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