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leave. 'd when we have a new baby we will often hang a hang a blanket and the baby will go into their thinking it's the shape of the mother and put his hand up 'd 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 hand on that instinct to put his head out so we can get the bottle to get him to. lose the world. was being with us all 2 weeks to the day actually it was 2 weeks ago today that we

rescued with ok and so we've crossed the 10 day mark i mean he arrives you have very young very vulnerable and we didn't know it was going to be touch and go. and live. deprived of their mothers baby elephants can't survive in the wild without help run like some other animals elephants won't really young that isn't. roxy duncans found to the scent of a wolf and animals to help them get back on their feet and prepare them to return to the wild. to begin. with. that. 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 $300.00 take piece a virgin bush that they've got to themselves just them and listen 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 4 or 5 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. he was found a learn but in an area where they 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 3 hours. it can be it can be one of the most challenging things because you're in

a small airplane you have a $1250.00 you know elephants that is in 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 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 so i estimate him to be i estimated him under arrival to be about 3 or 4 days old we use for limpopo we're using a moat called it's $26.00 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. i know exactly how much she needs every day so she gets 2 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 term and the turned one. i mean we go. to find the baby. the one awake during mate with the new boy by spending time about it and then we do

the dishes. with the limpopo he's so good his. limpopo is a little one i'm sure about the one and 2 x. will do i'm not quite sure i do he's doing so well it is hard work we've been. young. elephants. it's a tough one. we are trying our best. friends family moved to zimbabwe more than a 100 years ago for 5 generations they've tried to live in harmony with nature and keep it pristine for their descendants but in this damage that simple objective has become a real mission. so where the wildlife sanctuary it's on it's been developed on

a family farm so i'm a 4th generation zimbabwean my family moved 4 generations ago and we've been on this ever since this. is a commercial operation and there are about 2 and a half 1000 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 20 years but slightly different because they can. 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 which can live for 60 or 70 years. i very purchased with the weapon so they still the problem in this area yes very problem was that it will be dreaming of a true as you discovered several friends yeah with the able to talk to me yes it was that it was a 20 short you know they have to be i thought ok just so they shoot the elephants training hunting rifles are going to get a great was how to detect when you're going to be able to use the excess to kill off big excess and they cut the faces of the 50 forming. yeah.

our 1st rescue was a little elephant to morrow 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 mammalian 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 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 bag i realized the magnitude and the responsibility of the work that my mother was doing and why was no nearly 4. nearly 5 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 607080 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 is up. with us for all. the

broken evacuation. now it's healing you see is that cliff's leg was broken and fused. but he can still walk ok. but you can see where it was. and. it's a 2 and 9 years old now so he's the oldest one in the school and this is boyle she is not nearly 5 years it won't take. young elephants have come to us. west specially 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 live 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 busy. 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 then 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 special to watch. seemed wrong. just told. me that you get to shape out just because get educated and engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the. you know. when i

was a busy little infant i would be happy why best was oh so. soon my children it's bad to say i'm. sure go die any 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 know 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. 30 or 40 years of walking along. in 2017 october. 17th. we discovered that in a way. which we killed by saying it. indeed they say no it was 2 or . plastic bags often used to bridge when the. industry. was dropping some. from the part of the oil industry joined in

a part of the plastics so i think that these are all the one which attempted to be using this same source merely from a far distance in the old they were also coming from they want to point. to the fitting. in 2017 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 poachers.

and perches were killed we. had one. was that we should have been from a crossbench trying to be wild now. reports. and how many pieces of ivory. they were. more divorce in each person was. a body from 50 to 5450. 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 coaching but by hunting as well we moved the elephants the 1st 6 elephants from the nursery near to. all the way up to here to panama city 18 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 every day 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 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 2 days here. while they were settling in and then after that one or 2 days reopen the gate and we walked them into that main stage 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 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 so in terms of the small 'd 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 2nd go. you know it's ok go go go good go. go. go. and this is better not problem. that's goat. either growing bigger these in. and they've said to say it's all been extremely nicely said they have adapted to 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 1st 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 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 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 busy 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.

the way. 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 'd. how far a project can reach and this is a symbol for a positive conservation story and it's about. 'd

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 within zimbabwe how the animals. think that they say. 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 me 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 5 years now and we care about them but at the same time our mission has

always for them been for them 'd to go back to the wild and so it will be mixed emotions for sure. will be very happy when they are living wild and free with their wild compared to its in the bush but we'll miss them of course i can't i can't lie that i would 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.

yeah them belong to me some of us them some of the. monument can still. follow. suit. he thought the. cargo. the feelings about him all for normal coach. donna suspect still in don's of the. message will. be with the infant daughter not you know looking in on ya.

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