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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 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 and a half to 3 hours and it can be it can be one of the most challenging things because youre 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 are then realize that hes a very very young calf he has no teeth he doesnt know how to use his truncates his coordination is not they it so i estimate him to be i estimated him under arrival to be about 3 or 4 days old we use for limpopo were using a moat called is 26. 00 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 their bones so this is actually. Die 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. Cannot milk unfortunately its not fralche but we dont have coconuts in zimbabwe so we have to use the. The tend to tend one. And then we go. To find a baby. The one. With a new book by spin to tell me about it and then we do. The limpopo hes so good he. Is a little one im sure about the 12 weeks will do much. To his doing so will. These. Young. Elephants. Toughly sure. We are trying our best. Efforts 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 it is damage that simple objective has become a real mission. Where the Wildlife Sanctuary its on its been developed on a family farm im a 4th generation zimbabwean my family moved here for 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 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 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. But also of nervousness of that lifetime commitment to looking after these animals which can live for 60 or 70 years. I very much as with the weapon so theres still a problem in this area yes very its a problem was that it will be green elephants was here we discovered several friends yeah with the able to talk to me yes it was that it was a 20 short you know they have to be able to catch just so they shoot the elephants painting hunting rifles are going to get a great horse out there that were going to be able to use excess to kill off big excess and they cut the face he said to the 50 forming. 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 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 realize why was no nearly 4 nearly 5 years old and she is a Strong Healthy a lot. 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 in their own image in the way. This is the sun is up. These days with us for 4 years old. And broken back. Now. Is that cliffs leg was broken and fused with him. But he can still walk ok. But you can see where it was. And so he said its a 2 and 9 years old now so hes the oldest one in the school and this is boyle she is not nearly 5 years it will take. All. The. Young elephants have come to us. My specialty brutal poaching incidents because sadly the baby elephants often do see their mothers 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 facial 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 thats the ears evenly when theyre smiling. I have no science. To truth that i cant i cant 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 its just its just special to watch. Been officially for russia is not chump is doing a probably what trump is not doing for us all see the contrary to his predecessors he did not stop any war so boldly it is it is a little bit nasty for a more predictable in these perspectives on the other hand all the world is changing it is achievable in force and come on its not supposedly mr trump who is making the world the dangerous place he is just a symptom of the change thats. Thinking of getting a new phone the ones we got our shoes from groundwater as he didnt know until he was trapped in this tiny little wired were going to use a crate with him he will. 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Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. It was. You. Know with this little infant ill be happy thats because those. 6 legged children its bad to say im. Sure. Any elephant or that and i dont well but it seems like. 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 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 old walking along a in 2017 october 112. But when 17 is just covered it had to be a way of teaching elephants which were killed by so you need ways in. 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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 in stead 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 reopen the gate and we walked them into that main way 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 botswana 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 so and it was not safe before from hunting and poaching so it was difficult for elephants to connect those areas now that its safe and secure creates a much bigger area in terms of the small 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. A logo so i can go. You know so i can go right good go right good go. Ahead go. Thank you. And this is better no problem no. Lets go to. The theyre growing bigger these in. And theyve said to ringback settled in extremely nicely so 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. A safe area within the fish and they 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 so 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 doing that is when. The Wild Elephants are coming around del 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 interact. With Wild Elephants so that one day when theyre in the bush theyve got their friends in the bush understand the laws d of the wild so thats why were doing that is for the Wild Elephants to get to know these elephants more and more. With. 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 to zimbabwe elephant nursery. 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 d. How far a project can reach and this is a symbol for a positive conservation story and its 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 whats in zimbabwe how the animals. Think how odd 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 theyre not not. Just as meat hole as ivory. Yeah when the elephants leave us theyll be very mixed emotions of course we we have 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. Well be very happy when they are living wild and free with their wild competitors in the bush but well miss them of course i cant i cant live that i would miss them you know we will miss them of course but most of all well be happy for them that they are free in the wild. We still got you to entice haven t. Lets move. On diplomatic protocol over the intercom to discredit. You come. On to who want to think about anything other than what your canadian each of until look at him as all. Of them do eat too much good to be a good tone goof on the author to get a fail when im a not good children tell him of all this you can tie one next time you dont come fall through the marketing. 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