daniel chiswaniso jeremia says he always keeps a gun loaded. he has a farm outside kasane. >> i shot an elephant last year, 2018. it was in the field here. during the day, i tried to scare it. it refused and went "oh!" and i said, let me shoot it now. killing an elephant is not nice. it's not nice to kill it. but for the sake of self-defense, because it originals me, or -- either it kills me, or -- it's war. when it's war, ah, we shoot. >> it's a fight for survival. jeremia says the elephants are always on his fields destroying his crops. >> because they come every day. today they're getting at this piece. during the night they come again and continue, until the whole field is done. >> elephants have trampled his fences, including the electric ones. and jeremia doesn't have the money to repair them. >> my life has been deteriorating. deteriorating because of the elephants. what i mean is, they make people poor. they make people poor. now i'm poor. my feeling is, i think culling should be done. what i feel about elephants is that therere too my.