Hunting as a means to save the animals here on our territory then we have failed. Protecting animals from poachers of expensive how can this be financed in a place without much tourism and where should these the racist giants go. What needs to be done so that they can live in safety over the long terms. Mean which. Means. To. Some go as a private game reserve in zimbabwe that extends over an area of 600 square kilometers. Of. Its own or is between pops a german merchant. Hes created a minor paradise here in the middle of the african wilderness. Copse passion for wildlife was sparked in 1965 when he went on his 1st photo safari in africa which. It would. Be. Nice to see im 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 the species weve since. Pops bought sango in 1903 its located in the se 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 and. Cops then his neighbors resettled the 1st elephants almost 600 of them us along with other species. Its according to pops own estimates operating song will cost around 1000000. 00 euros in your. 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 that they can hang its head with horns or tusks on the wall. 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 wanting takes out very few animals house. For example if we have 100. 00 leopards and we shoot maybe 4 of them a year yes 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 both at least its. A leopard and lion hunt is 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 at all can decide how many can be shot without endangering the overall population. Account just 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 a bank so the top of the tree and then we have a leading oh and this forces the cap to answer up the tree to 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 side 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 the. Ploys 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 Bryce Clements lead 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 and to areas where its not ethical basically theyre all over quarter theyll shoot more than what that should sometimes and also always 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 pops. 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 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 is. Trophies for Animal Welfare for many people that simply feels wrong. But what would be the alternative here in song of. Zimbabwes in a serious crisis and most of the time theres not even electricity. In 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. Center pops sango has developed from a rundown cattle farm to a wildlife paradise. The numbers of nearly all species are increasing especially. The 1st 600 thrown to more than 2000. This has led to conflicts with the neighbors. To say Valley Conservation area surrounded by villages thousands of people live in them and their number is growing. There in binondo farms 2 hectares of land next to sango his harvest dont amount to much. Anythings comes from sam will you convince me to shop in my tent did it come here to our fields and. Its indifferently simmias lets. Get to. Destroy our kids. Although theres a fence around the gamers are parts of it are frequently stolen this leads to constant conflicts between the humans and the animals no. One under has built a hut on his field to protect us harvest. We come. To flipping. Him to think. For a bit. He would protect you but the thing was we used torches we used drums. But not to go our way they just that i would be moving i dont do moving them but theyll be always if im going too much. And therefore. I do know it. But the elephants dont just destroy the fields of the neighboring farmers. They also destroy their own habitat. Humans into one as you can see big elephant 4567 tons brought down the stream just snapped. This is not the main problem because the elephant can now beat on the crown and small antelopes peters live off of it that makes sense the problem is 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 oppressive. Extent of the damages amends. 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 heat 100 square kilometers of land to the north of zimbabwe directly on this n. B. C. River. German businessman high schools father is leasing it hes a passionate Animal Rights activist. Part of the income from his i t company goes into the protection of wild animals he made that decision with photos of. His 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 flightsim 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 get on it with the people. Was fun to found at the vinyl force a paramilitary Protection Force for a while but. Its active in south africa and zimbabwe. From coast far learned that 100. 00 elephants were to be killed he had a spectacular idea. The elephants should be moved. To one of a kind rescue operation began. Crew telephones were trying to live 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 live. Theres a risk that individual animals or the entire herd will attack their 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. Thats important to fox but he doesnt have to kill the elephants. Its an emotional high point i really cant describe 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 shores of. But 1st the heavyweights need to be lifted on to the transporters. Its a critical moment. Every move has to be just right. I the heat is an additional source of stress for the elephants. Crew of the water. I. I. I from here theyre brought to a specially built pen placed on a large truck. Thanks. 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. The journey to a new home begins. The line of force transports the packagers. After 24 hours in the truck they have a 1st breath of freedom. From. The makeshift enclosure is meant to be a place for them to rest. He clements is the head of the rhino force here in reef he has rangers protect the animals from poachers. When we have been that guy just go out and watch him go free it gives me a chance to. Interview sense of responsibility that i have a moral responsibility to look after them when i see them go free it makes me feel be happy. And. Then comes the big moment the elephants are released. A new like awaits them. Theres a lot of room for the great giants in. The animal population is low hunters and poachers have been taking their toll for decades. In reply you can see what happens if there is no sustainable hunting. Clement says the commercial hunting started here in the 1980 s. It started with some ethics i mean people were sure to bring things by the book and but that also a trench kind of trying squad to record me and unfortunately both parties hunting parties and at that time individuals not not the entire department but individuals that. Hunters were persuading them to sell them extra animals and that kind of thing so crusty overshooting the quote i gave you a quotation from. The schools of slaughter elephants told the tale. It was a lucrative business. Corrupt employees of a National Park authority and unethical hunters me good money well the animal population was devastated. Chris just on talk to one talk to hunter people getting their last chance to get on to it and thats when i really got stuck in and it actually just escalated to what we have today almost some areas absolutely flat out totally and absolutely shocking. When cause for lease the territory he wanted to ban hunting but was met with resistance from the National Park before. It earns money from every animal that it allows to be shot. Quite legally. The money from the hunting licenses as an important source of income for the authority. This means that if there is no hunting and refund the authority loses money. Theres often thats not part of 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. The only way is 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 was i to. Since january 28th hunting has been strictly prohibited and refight. The rhino force patrols the area in the air from boats and on the ground and the rangers not only protect grief but also the surrounding area and. Its an area of around 10000 square kilometers. Because forest says the effort cost more than 1000000. 00 euros a year. He says when the rhino for started working 28000 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 of the chase the animals you need to feed your families which is understandable when lives were at stake 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 poacher so to speak it was to. Help 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. Its quite tempting to some countries especially where the rule of law is weak and 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 wouldnt meet our criteria. The possibility that hunting can be abused is among the reasons why course for a completely abolish didnt reply. But he has gone one step further hes trying to convince his neighbors to like car thunder. He ran a Hunting Lodge for 30 years and worked as a hunt director looking after big game hunters. Find out pete 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 as was 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 short. Here trophy hunters also put pressure on the. Liver paste tens of thousands of euros for a hunt 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 director to. Find out he just put down his guns you switch this Hunting Lodge to Photo Tourism. Its not easy because hunters take considerably more than photo tourists. But a small concession like ours the thought of having 5 or 10 hunting groups now you have to have 5 or 10 People Per Day coming through your concession to 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. In this model worked here in crisis ridden zimbabwe. The beginning was financially difficult under heat 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 so the stocks have been recovering. Only a few people live in a protected area and yet there are already conflicts. That you 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 hold plastic. Thats michaels 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 it isnt what is when hes saving just enough food for us so well see that see before we get t. V. Into d. C. It wasnt much use for us i think this image of the squid for us is good for everyone its good for us for safety its 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 humans and wildlife exist side by side when theres less and less room for them. Visually pups and in 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 has this to give 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 but if it was 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 in the commish just too much for me then on top of it and to far wild animals are of no value to the local population they will not protect them shits imagine that the poac