tv Documentary RT November 30, 2019 8:30pm-9:00pm EST
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deprived of their mothers' baby elephants can't survive in the wild without help will run like some other animals elephants won't really young that isn't. roxy duncans founded a scent of a wolf and 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 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 $300.00 take to pisa version bush that they've got to themselves just them and
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listen a few and to look so they come here in the morning they roam around freely together they feed stay 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. old. 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 of the country and he was found right in an area where they is. currently it's very very hot down there it's
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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 witnessed 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 and all of the hof to 3 hours. it could be that to 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.
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so we go to pat and. put him on the formula that he was he and within realized 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 is to make him to be i estimated to mount arrival to be about 3 or 4 days old we use for limpopo we're using a moat 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. 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. skip's every day. what we also
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had is some. coconut milk unfortunately it's not fraîche but we don't have coconuts in zimbabwe so we have to use the. the 10 and attend one. i mean we go. to find the baby. the one awake during mate with a newborn by spending time about it and then we do want to share. it with the limpopo he's so good he's. limpopo is a little one i'm sure about the one to 2 weeks will do i'm not quite sure i do he's doing so well it is hard work we've been. young. elephants.
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it's a tough week. we're trying our best to drink 1st 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 a family farm i'm a 4th generation zimbabwean my family moved 4 generations ago and we've been on this sense 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
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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 because we saw much but also of nervousness of that lifetime commitment to looking after these animals which can live for 60 or 70 years.
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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 or true as you discovered several friends yeah with the able to talk to me yes it. was that 20 short you know they have to be i thought ok yes so they shoot the elephants painting hunting rifles are going to get a great was how did they take over when it was cut to 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 a 1000000 species that i had raised before and i've raised
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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 back i realize the magnitude and the responsibility of the work that my mother was doing and why was no nearly 4 nearly 5 years old and she is a strong healthy
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a lot. 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 this. these bees with us for. growth and that. now. we 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. it's a 2 and 9 years old now so he's the oldest one in this group and this is boyle she is not nearly 5 years it won't take.
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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 and 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
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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 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 a special to watch. in
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the fischel for russia is not something is doing. for instance he on the contrary to his predecessors he did not stop any war so probably it is it is a little bit safer and more predictable in these perspectives on the other hand all the world is changing it is a true bill and world and come on it's not supposedly mr trump who is making the world the dangerous place he is just a symptom of the change that so. this
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is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida another mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it is meaning messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court the . shot shot is far society we feel. we don't know she'll share this is true for. the end of this trial unfortunately you. will still not know childress.
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sure there would be 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 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 teen i have to be strong for the family but i have my own pain and i can only. deal with my own
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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 if they were. elephants which were crude device a unique ways in india they say no it was too. plastic bags were used to braid when the. industry. is it 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 sense or smelly from a far distance in the old they were also coming from they want to point. to the
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front of them from across the bench actually the. reports. and how many pieces about. there were. more divorce in each case than was. 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
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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 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 so we were worried about it getting stuck instead of that we we built this.
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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 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 so in terms of the small puzzle of areas this is the middle
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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 not problem now i. that's got. the they're growing bigger these in. and they've said to ringback 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 are 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
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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. a safe area 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 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
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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 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. with.
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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
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and understand it but in 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. poor 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
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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. war industry is based on greed and that greed is based on this. rush to jamie let us watch paper wealth as possible even though it's not genuine wealth spot actual money it's not gold like a warren buffet just hoards of money like an old granny what hoard phone books and that doesn't credible damage because the thing called kate said to the population
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this notion of holy. be still got you into too tight a duty to clean sneak. her overboard or cook or discredit us and you. could want to think about you think about it mateo committed to each of them to look at him as though. he didn't tell them to eat too much how to get to be a good tone quit on the author meant to get on with going to feel when a man that good children tell him with all that you can tie one next time you don't come fall.
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the official for russia. is doing. is not doing. the contrary to his predecessors he did not start a new war. it is a little bit. more predictable in the. perspective on the other hand the world is changing which is achievable in paulson and. personally mr trump who is making the world is a dangerous place he is just a symptom of the change that's. islamic
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