Hunting as a means to save the animals here on our territory and we have failed to do for. The protecting animals from poachers of expensive how can this be financed in a place without much tourism and where should these be racist giants go. What needs to be done so that they can live in safety over the long term. And. I mean. Some go as a private game reserve and bob way. That extends over an area of 600 square kilometers. Its owner is bill feed pops a german merchant. Hes created a minor paradise here in the middle of the african wilderness. Tops passion for wildlife was sparked in 1965 when he went on his 1st photo safari in africa. It was. Fascinated by elephants but if you look at them and you see how families Work Together how they play with each other and then theres almost something human about it and you know we were out yesterday and looked at the wild dogs it was like a kindergarten are they really so different from us and in need theres a closeness theres an appreciation or theres a love if you will in these species speed since. Pops bought sango in 1903 its located in the say valley conservancy a vast nature reserve bigger than luxemburg. At that time there were only bankrupt cattle farms here there were no elephants rhinos for lions. Cops and his neighbors resettled the 1st elephants almost 600 of them along with other species. According to pops own estimates operating song will cost around 1000000. 00 euros a year. Around 60 percent is financed through what he calls sustainable use. In other words trophy hunting. Big game hunters arrive and shoot an animal so they can hang its head with horns or tusks on the water. Because of the trophy hunting on his land popstars made enemies. But is that rightly so. The myth is that hunting destroys the entire animal world mounting takes out very few animals. For example if we have 100. 00 leopards and we shoot maybe 4 of them a year but we have a rate of offspring that is probably somewhere around 10 by then this is still sustainable. So there will be no leopard population destroyed anywhere at least its. A leopard and lion just taking place as we make our documentary but were not allowed to film. Fear of the effect the pictures could have is too great. Sustainable hunting needs reliable numbers only those who know how many animals that are all can decide how many can be shot without endangering the overall population. Account as undertaken every year in sango on the ground and from the air. A special leopard count is currently under way to do this you call just Alexander Cooper has placed big in almost 140 places. And basically as you can see we position in a bank so the top of the tree here and then we have a little oh and this forces the top to answer up the tree so the bait and then we have a Camera Position so we can take right on side pictures of each one and they have unique fingerprint i. D. s on the sides so we individually identify each individual. Pops seeks the advice of an ecologist to determine whether there are enough or too many of a specific species. While individual animals are killed by trophy hunters the income generated from the hunts is used to protect the remaining animals you know. The struggle against poachers is particularly expensive. Pops employees 44 rangers to protect animals. There are also elite troops that he supports they specialize in endangered species such as rhinos. The troops are armed with heavy weapons. The rangers call it a war theyve committed their lives to protecting animals rights clements leads the team. He refuses to hunt for trophies because he says people dont often hunt ethically. Some areas have been badly badly hemant in the past other parts of the country certain areas have been over. Areas where its not ethical basically theyre all over quiet or theyll shoot more than what they should sometimes and or is picking the biggest trophies that kind of thing so what you end up finding is is the wildlife population in general guys down. Trophy hunting can do great harm to an animal population but it can also be beneficial carried out responsibly as is the case with parts. Under these conditions even the World Wide Fund for nature supports trophy hunting the organizations policy manager says what many Animal Rights activists dont want to hear. We do recognize that in certain let limited circumstances it can be part of the conservation armory if you will one conservation tool but in the majority of circumstances its not sustainable there are many problems associated with that but this isnt outright opposition in the sense that if we do acknowledge that there are certain places where it has proven to be a useful conservation tool but those tend to be the exception rather than the rule its. Trophies for Animal Welfare for many people that simply feels wrong. But what would be the alternative here in song will. Involve boys in a serious crisis and most of the time theres not even electricity. And we can Photo Tourism work here. Unfortunately its very difficult to bring tourists here we have to think about how to do it we fly from abroad to the capital harare then it takes about 6 hours by car to get here the deepest bush. Then the question arises is gasoline available mostly its not do they have cash after all you have to be able to buy something on the go and thats usually not the case either so its very very difficult to actually get to this faraway wilderness the dreamland of africa as a tourist. Sango has developed from a rundown cattle farm to a wildlife paradise. The numbers of nearly all species are increasing especially the elephants. The 1st 600 have thrown to more than 2000. This has led to conflicts with the neighbors. The sage Valley Conservation area surrounded by villages thousands of people live in them and their number is growing. Their own mondo farms 2 hectares of land next to sango his harvest dont amount to much. Innocence comes from. You convince the shop in my to. Come with you to our fields and to destroy our plans each individually. Come to. Get to. Destroy our control of boulders offense around the game reserve parts of it are frequently stolen this leads to constant conflicts between the humans and the animals no. Jewels one under his belt a hut on his field to protect us harvest. We come if you me to flippy. Into those moments before. He will protect you but there is nothing was we used to we used drama. You know. But they are not to go our way they just arent they moving i dont do moving around it will be ive always if im going too much. Its a little calm and of. That i do know it. But the elephants dont just destroy the fields of the neighboring farmers and. They also destroy their own habitat. Humans eat head on course in a funk as you can see big elephant 4567 tons brought down the street just snapped as if he just calls it this is not the main problem because the elephant can now beat on the crown and small antelopes leap eaters live off of it that makes sense the problem is all the tree is dead and weve now lost a 3rd of this type of forest one and thats destroying the food chain not only for the elephants but also for the other leaf eater itself or the under the law plus. The extent of the damages a ments. Even the giant bay about trees arent safe. As a rule of thumb 0. 4 elephants per square kilometer is considered acceptable to ensure vegetation can regenerate. Pop has considerably more elephants than that he has to cover otherwise they will destroy their own habitat. Has been granted permission to kill 100 elephants. Whole families are said to be slaughtered. Is it still possible to rescue them. Refocus 800 square kilometers of land in the north of zimbabwe directly on the n. B. C. River. German businessman high scores father is leasing and hes a passionate Animal Rights activist. Part of the income from his i. T. Company hammers boss goes into the protection of wild animals he made that decision to postpone. This runoff union after. Many years on safari as a normal tourist i was in south africa sitting with a ranger in the evening and i asked him what his biggest problem was he was a big tough guy but he said to me in tears that he had lost his friends the elephants and rhinos who were being slaughtered like flies and right then it was clear to me that i could do something about it i could help the animals with hammers box backing we could make a difference. Because fatah founded the vinyl force a paramilitary Protection Force for wildlife. Its active in south africa and zimbabwe. And course for a learned 100. 00 elephants were to be killed she had a spectacular idea. The elephants should be moved. From one of a kind rescue operation began thank you telephones for tranquilized from the air crew. Its a dangerous maneuver. Veterinarians and helpers on the ground must be as close as possible to the elephants when theyre trying to lines. Theres a risk that individual animals or the entire herd was attacked the helpers. Crew. The moment the elephants fall every 2nd counts. If they fall in properly and their trunk is blocked they can suffocate. This elephant has difficulty breathing its weight is pressing on its own. The helpers have to do something. Its important to cops that he doesnt have to kill the elephants. Yes its its an emotional high point i really cant describe it just give me. This and it makes me well up it says its highly emotional. Relocating these animals and seeing how they multiply at the other end repopulating a wildlife park thats been depopulated by poachers is the dream of every conservationist on the choices. But 1st the heavyweights need to be lifted onto the transporters. Thats a critical moment. Every move has to be just right. The heat is an additional source of stress for the elephants helpers crew of the water. I from here theyre brought to a specially built pet placed on a large truck. In the pen the elephants are given a stimulant and wake up. This means they can run into the big truck themselves. This transport consists of a group of 9 animals. And journey to a new home begins. When a horse transports the packager. After 24 hours in the truck they have a 1st breath of freedom. The makeshift enclosure is meant to be a place for them to rest. P. Clements is the head of the rhino horse here and reef. Rangers protect the animals from poachers. When we have been they guy just go and watch him go free it gives me a chance show. Deficiency of responsibility that i have a moral responsibility to look after them going on i shouldnt go free it makes me extremely happy. And. Then comes the big moment the elephants are released. And. The new is like a week so. Theres a lot of room for the great giants who. Are. The animal population as long hunters and poachers have been taking their toll for decades. In reef but you can see what happens if there is no sustainable hunting. Climate such as the commercial hunting started here in the 1980 s. It started with some ethics on mean people who are sort of doing things by the book and but that also trenchtown are trying squad to record and unfortunately both parties hunting parties and at that time individuals not not in Top Department but individuals. Hunters were persuading them to sell them extra animals and that kind of thing crush the shooting acquire gave their. The schools of slaughter elephants told the tale. It was a lucrative business. Corrupt employees of the National Park authority and one ethical hunters me good money well the animal population was devastated. Here chris just hunter off to hunt talk to hunter people get in their washing shoes to get on to it and thats when i really got stuck in and im actually just escalated to what we have today almost some areas actually totally and absolutely shocking. Because for lease the territory he wanted to ban hunting but was met with resistance from the National Park authority it earns money from every animal that it allows to be shot quite legally. The money from the hunting licenses is an important source of income for the authority. This means that if there is no hunting and the authority loses money does have the nuts and the head of the National Park authority told me very clearly that in the end we can do anything as long as he has the same income that he would have if there had been hunting in this territory here. Thats the only ways to compensate for this in other words we pay for animals that we dont hunt and we have the National Park authority on our side the hood over the side. Since january 28th hunting has been strictly prohibited and we thought. The right to force patrols the area in the air from boats and on the ground. The rangers not only protect grief but also the surrounding area. Its an area of around 10000 square kilometers. Because for a sense the effort cost more than 1000000. 00 euros a year. He says when the rhino 4 started working in 28 it turned out that the rangers from the National Park authority were also poaching. The reason for this was the drastic Economic Situation in zimbabwe. The rangers had not been paid for months and. Then shot some of their bosses then said go out and you can get your share chase the animals you need to feed your families which is understandable when lives were at stake and since the National Park rangers then got used to it realized that they might be able to sell some things and so we got to the situation where the National Park authority was the biggest poachers so to speak. How big is the risk that individual rangers or the state itself will poached the animal population. According to the. The more difficult the Economic Situation and the greater the corruption. The greater the risk. Thats quite tempting to some countries especially where the rule of law is weak and where where governments might be weak to milk the resource for the short term and thats in our experience the most common. Failing of trophy hunting and the reason why most trophy hunts are criteria. The possibility that hunting can be of use is among the reasons why course for a completely abolished it in reefer. But he has gone one step further hes trying to convince his neighbors to. Find out. He ran a Hunting Lodge for 30 years and worked as a hunt director looking after big game hunters. Fun to eat ensure their safety and lead them to the hunting grounds. He knows the dark side of the business and how much pressure both the owners of a wildlife area and the National Park authority can exert both sides and money from each trophy. Sometimes you have a concession which is which is not being run. Correctly and. They would be an operator that requires as much resources as possible to come out of a hunting and he would put pressure like metropark sometimes would push an operator there would then put pressure on the on the provision to deliver and in a situation like this you would have a lot more and its a cool situations we big cat from a pride of lions a beat would be shocked. Trophy hunters also put pressure on the. Liver paste tens of thousands of euros for 100. 00 does not want to go home without a trophy. Whether the hunt is ethical and sustainable in such a situation depends on the determination of the hunt director. Found out he just put down his guns he switched his hunting march to Photo Tourism. Its not easy because hunters pay considerably more than photo tourists. But a small concession like i was the thought of having 5 or 10 hunting groups you know you have to have 5 or 10 People Per Day coming through your concision in order to give back the same revenue stream so its a lot more pressure on an operation to you to be able to change the financial stream from hunting to not hunting. Shooting pictures instead of wildlife can this model work here in crisis ridden zimbabwe. The beginning was financially difficult funda he sense now things are slowly going uphill. He says the region has a lot to offer photo tourists. Since ronald force began to protect animals from poachers the stocks have been recovered. Only a few people live in the protected area and yet there are already conflicts. She dont know is located on the outskirts of reef run 4000 people live here. Alongside the wild animals. Monkeys come here attracted by leftover food and sources of water. But so do elephants. Again and again there are clashes between humans and animals sometimes theyre fatal. Theres another problem the elephants the Plastic Waste individual animals have already died their stomachs whole plastic. Thats why close farai has started another project. 12 women most of them unemployed Single Parents collect trash they get vouchers for food and cosmetics. Its all if we but if one does when hes saving just nothing for us so well see that see before we get z. In 2 days it was much easier for us i think this image of the squid for us is good for everyone its good for us or safety is good for our families. Humans and elephants benefit from the garbage project but in the long term the conflict between humans and animals will intensify here because the number of elephants will increase as will the number of humans. The living space is becoming more cramped for both and not only in zimbabwe. Because the population africa is exploding the pressure on the wild areas is increasing. The fight for resources has already started. How can him and wildlife exist side by side when theres less and less room for them. Visually pups and high schools far more huge sums of money into the protection and operation of the wildlife areas every year. We have or without a trophy hunt the bottom line is that both are in the red. They do it because they care about africas wildlife. But who protects animals when there is no rich donor. His father and pops to see only one solution to life 1st this is a good big story in the long run the only way is through the people who live here through the communities that need to gain something from the animals for the good of why should i protect something that Means Nothing to me and from which i draw no benefit. Benefits can mean workplace food prospects for the future but these have to be created otherwise it will be impossible to solve this problem lucas is too much for me then on top of it until far wild animals are of no value to the local population they will not protect them shits and imagine that the poachers arrive through the village to see however if the villagers are already very much aware of the value of these animals and the poachers will not find a home there and this means that the value of the animals is fundamental to the survival of nature conservation. The income from Photo Tourism creates this value. But not every area is suitable for those. Even if pictures like these regularly cause outrange trophy hunting can be an effective means to promote Animal Welfare. But the risks of abuse are huge. What is the value elephants rhinos and lions have for humans and not just as an ideal. 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