often and hang a blanket and the baby will go into there thinking it's the shape of the mother and put it. 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. put it into that instinct to put his head out so we can get the bottle to get into. 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't survive in the wild without help

the unlike 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. signals ok. that's it. this. is so the elephants start off the day when the sun rises early in the morning the handlers come they clean out their stables they feed their 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 piece a virgin bush that they've got to themselves just them 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 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 dock at about 4 or 5 o'clock they'll start walking together with a handlers back to the nursery. will . we got a phone call to say that there was this race young elephant that had been orphaned and he is a victim of pitching down in the south of the country and 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. plane right 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 here and. put him on the formula 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 it's his coordination is not they it so i estimate him to be i estimated to mum arrival to be about 3 or 4 days old we've used for limpopo we're using a moat called is 26 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 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 read a. 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. and then we go. to find the baby. i'm the one awake during mate with the new ball by spending time about it hours and then we do go to shop but i don't think it would be impossible. is a literal one i'm sure. i'm not quite sure. he's doing so will. these . young. 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. that simple objective has become a real mission. so where the wildlife sanctuary it's on it's been developed on a family farm i'm a 4th generation zimbabwean my family moved to 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 a 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 so 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.

i very purchased with the weapon so there's still a problem in this area yes very it's a problem because the it will be green elephants was here we discovered several friends yeah with the. truck did we have yes it. was a pretty 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 out there that we're going to be able to use excess to chop off big access to space and they cut the faces 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 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 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 realized 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 elephant. again i think that's what is really powerful about this project because 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 full way. this is the sun is up. these days with us for all. the growth and back late. now it's healing you see is that cleft leg was broken and now it's fused with him. but he can still walk ok. but you can see where it was. and said it's a 2 a 9 years old now so he's the oldest one in the school and this is boyle she is

not nearly 5 years old. young elephants have come to us. my specialty brutal perching 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. fans 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 evenly 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.

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you go. now with this little infant i would be happy why best was those. sins of my children is 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 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 the way of. which were killed by seine. indeed they say no it was

to visit or. plastic bags. when the. industry. was dropping some stuff from the part of the oranges which waned in a part of the plastics so i think that diesel would be one which attempted to be using this same source merely from a far distance in the old they were also coming from the what a 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 vibrate confiscated from poachers. and butchers were killed. in captured one. day there. was a we should have been from a crossbench to actually be. there trust reports. and how many pieces of ivory. they were. from or 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 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. 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 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 2 days here. while they were settling in and then after that one or 2 days. in the gate and we walked 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 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 does areas now that it's safe and secure creates a much bigger area 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 circuit go. you know so i can go right good go right. good go. go. go.

and this is better not problemo. that's got. the they're growing bigger these in. and they've said to say it's all been 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 now allowing them to go further and further away from the bombers but it is a slow process and we 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 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 elephants 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 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 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. with. elephants are an important symbol in the cultural 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 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 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. we'll 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.

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