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Prepare them to return to the wild. To begin. With. That. Is so they elephants start off the day when the sun rises early 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 pisa version bush that they have got to themselves just then the handlers and a few antelope 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 oclock theyll start walking together with they had back to the nursery. Full. 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 there is. Going on currently its very very hot down there its 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 earth and played 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 youre in a small airplane you have 802150 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 pat and and put him on the formula that he was he and we then realized that hes a very very young calf he has no teeth. He doesnt know how to use his trunk you its 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 use for limpopo were using a moat called is 26 gold this is a human formula and we found that this formula its 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 its 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 its not fralche but we dont have coconuts in zimbabwe so we have to use the. The turned the turned one. And then we go. To find the baby. The one awake during mate with the new boy by spending time about it hours and then we do the dishes. Right there with the limpopo is so good his. Employer is a little one im sure about the one you know talks all day im not quite sure but hes doing so well it is hard to work with these new. Young. Elephants. Its a tough week. Were trying our best to drink 1st family moved to zimbabwe more than a 100 years ago for 5 generations theyve tried to live in harmony with nature and keep it pristine for their descendants but in this damage that simple objective has become a real mission. Where the Wildlife Sanctuary its on its been developed on the family farm im a 4th generation zimbabwean my family moved 4 generations ago and weve been on this ever since this. Is a commercial operation and there are about 2 and a half 1000 People Living on this property. Weve 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 its such a lifetime commitment and its a huge responsibility and a massive weight on all of us old shoulders that it was one of happiness because we. 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 theres still a problem in this area yes very its a problem because the it will be green elephants was here we discovered several friends yeah with the. Able to talk to me yes it. Was a 20 short you know they have to be i thought ok just so they shoot the elephants painting hunting rifles are going to get a great was how do they take over when youre going to be able to use the excess to chop off big access to space and they cut the faces cut to the 50 forming that theyre different 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 didnt 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 ive 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 ill never ill 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 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 thats what is really powerful about this project is its a legacy project these animals. They live to 607080 years old my mom isnt going to be around to see these animals when theyre in there with him in the hallway. This is the sun is up. In this field with us for all. The broken back late. You see is the back left leg was broken and fused with him. But he can still walk ok. But you can see where it was. And. Its a 2 and 9 years old now so hes the oldest one in the screws and this is boyle she is not nearly 5 years all. The. Young elephants have come to us. Myspace really brutal poaching incidents because sadly the baby elephants often do see their mothers not only be killed but also be cut up and orchard. And thats terrible i mean they carry that with them and sometimes weve had cases where. Be elephants have been rescued and brought to us and physically theres 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 theyve 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 the whole the whole expression changes and that ears evenly when theyre smiling. I have no science. To prove that i cant 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 its just its just its so special to watch. This is a story about what happens austria stray bullets kills a young girl in the streets. What happens to her family and daughters in florida the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery in meaning this is your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police need is 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 course the. Shock shock as far as i feel. We dont know still just for the. End of this trial unfortunately you. Will still not know what childress. Im going to fulfill that purpose is possible for the people. You know weve all pots the. Business. Pretty. Much. You want to 1st. Know. All 5 the. Culling coming coming. To what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in peace on all fronts very Dramatic Development the only loosely im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. With. The. Full. You. Know if this is a little infant ill be happy why best bozos. Soon my children its bad to say im. Sure there would be any elephant all animal but scintillating. The most difficult parts of the job would be. To make a decision. Which i dont do very often and i dont 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 pain privately. So this is a very big bull elephant may be 30 or 40 years old walking along a in 2017 october 12th. But when 17. We discovered that if we were paid to know. Which were killed by say you need. Indeed they say no it was a still visit born. He. Used a bridge 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. 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 ivory confiscated from poachers. And perches were killed we. Had one. That was short of them from a crossbench actually the video was now. Reports. And how many pieces and then there were. More divorce in each person was. All. About feeling from 50 to. 50. 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 harare. The truck came here and we 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 theyve 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 both swan so its a very big area surrounded by a protected area yeah thats what makes it so important for elephants is because its 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 its 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 weve now secured thats very good for elephants but for all other animals. Its meant to be. Hello go circa go. You know so ok go right good go right. Good go. Go. Thank you. And this is better no problem no. Thats good. Either growing bigger. And ive said to ringback say its all been extremely nicely said they have adapted to the new food in your environment theyre starting to interact and communicate with the other Wild Elephants we now are 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 the cherry tree. 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 thats where theres all kinds of wild wild animals elephants lions buffalo but the whole thats the safe. Side yes the wild area. Thats where the Wild Elephants can come out and then they can meet with these elephants in the night weve taken some of the dung of the elephants of the big adult female elephant and weve put it outside the fenced area and the reason for us to. That is when. The Wild Elephants are coming around theyll smell that and theyll smell a female elephant and they can tell and then they will be more interested to interact with these elephants and its very important for these elephants that interacting with Wild Elephants so that one day when theyre in the bush theyve got their friends who are in the bush. Understand the laws of the wild so thats why we doing that is for the Wild Elephants to get to know these elephants more and more. Elephants are an important symbol in the culture and the heritage of our country and it was one of the inspirations for why my mom started zimbabwe elephant mystery. It was a opportunity to tell a conservation story that often isnt told something that is so that is positive that has that has far reaching implications and i think for myself as a zimbabwean its really powerful to see how a project. How far a project can reach and this is a symbol for a positive conservation story in zimbabwe. 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 whats in zimbabwe how the animals. I think. 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 theyre not looked on just as meat whole as ivory. Yeah when the elephants leave us theyll be very mixed emotions of course we weve 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 been 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 wild compared to its in the bush but well miss them of course i cant live that i wont miss them you know we will miss them of course but most of all d well be happy for them that they offer free in the wild. We still got you to entice haven t. Lets move. On. Were going to call you screwed up you. Could want to think about getting out of your. Children to look at them as though. You didnt have them to eat too much good to be a good toluca often to get those people to feel when im in the good children tell them with all this you can tie one next time you dont come fall. 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