point the mother. put it into that instinct put it out so we can get the bottle. was being with us all 2 weeks to the day actually it was 2 weeks ago today that we rescued me and so we crossed the 10 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 survive in the wild without help unlike some other animals elephants won't really young that isn't. 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 be ok. that's because. it. is so they elephants start off the day when the sun rises in the morning the handlers come they clean out the 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 $300.00 take piece a virgin 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 dock at about 4

or 5 o'clock they'll start walking together with they had liz back to the nursery. full 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 car. we put up a drip and we had minister

a few other critical components to making sure that the elephant survives the full journey of the earth plane right this is usually anywhere between an hour 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 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 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 trunk his coordination is not they it sigh estimates him to be i estimated him under. arrival

to be about 3 or 4 days old we use for limpopo we're using a mode called is $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. dark calcium phosphate and it's been specifically measured. so that we know exactly how much she needs every day so she gets 2 of these skips it re 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.

the one awake during mate with the new boy by spending time about it and then we do the dishes. but i'm thinking clearly the limpopo is so good he's. impossible isn't it true and i'm sure about the 1002 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 choice sure. we are trying our best. efforts 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 it is damage that simple objective has become a real mission. where

the wildlife sanctuary it's on it's been developed on the 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 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 60 or 70 years. i very purchased with the weapon so there's still a problem in this area yes a very is a problem was in his will between our parts was yes we discovered several friends yeah with the able to talk to me yes it. was that 20 short you know they have to be able to catch us so they shoot the elephants painting hunting

rifles we're going to get a great was out today we're going to be able to use the excess to cool off big excess and they cut the faces cut to the 50 forming a cold front yeah. our 1st 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 1000000 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 realize the magnitude and the responsibility of the work that my mother was doing and why i was not of the early fall. nearly 5 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 607080 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 son that screwed up. these days with us full 4 year old. and he had a broken back late. you see is that cliff's leg was broken and fused to him. but he can still walk ok. but you can see where it was. and say 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 old. all. the. young elephants have come to us. yes specially brutal poaching incidents because sadly the baby elephants often do see their mothers 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 a 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 the ears evenly when they're smiling. i have no science. to truth that i can't

i can't say yes elephant smile 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. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to.

have to go right to the press was like before 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. last question. thinking of getting a new phone the ones we got in here shows no problem was he didn't know until he was trapped in this tiny little wired we don't hear the crate with him he will just start freaking out and she will want to spray him anywhere near and thousands of breeding dogs that caged in the interview lane conditions on puppy phone i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in a cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the courtier the rain the snow the funder nothing they have no protection. to get what you. get through kids. across the u.s.

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this is a little infant i'll be happy why best because those. sins of my children it's bad to say i'm. sure. any elephant all 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. 30 or 40 years old walking along. in 2017 october. 17th. we discovered that if they were. elephants which were killed by say unique ways in. india they say no it was too. plastic bags were used 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 the same source merely from a far distance in the old they were also coming from the what a point. to be a fitting area. 2017 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 crossbench the. reports. and how many pieces about. there were. more divorce in each case than was. true.

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 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. we offloaded them here not at the top because 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. city in 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 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 so i can go right good go right good go. go. go. and this is better no problemo. that's got. the they're growing bigger these in.

and they've said to ringback say it's all been 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 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 fish 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 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 here 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. 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 '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 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 looked on 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 'd being for them 'd 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 'd we'll be happy for them that they are free in the wild.

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