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Deprived of their mothers baby elephants cant survive in the wild without help unlike some other animals elephants wont really young that isnt. Friends founded a center for orphan dynamos to help them get back on their feet and prepare them to return to the wild. Signals that theyre going there because. This. Is so they elephants they start off the day when the sun rises early in the morning the handlers come they clean out their 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 piece of virgin bush. That theyve got to themselves just them and listen a few and to look 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 here 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 handlers back to the nursery. We got a phone call to say that there was this race young elephant that it been orphaned and he is a victim of pitching down in the south of the country and he was found i learn that 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 plane 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 kilo elephant 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 then realise that hes a very very young calf he has no teeth he doesnt know how to use his trunk its his coordination is not they it sigh 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 every 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 tend the 101. 00. And then we go. To find the baby. Im the one awake during mate with the new ball by spending time about it hours and then we do the dishes right and taking care with the limpopo. Woodies. Is a literal one im sure. Im not quite sure. Hes doing so well. These. Young. Elephants. Its a tough one. We are trying our best the 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 it is damage that simple objective has become a real mission. Where the Wildlife Sanctuary its on its been developed on the family farm so 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 purchase with the weapon so theres still a problem in this area yes a very is a problem was in his will between our parts was yes we discovered several friends yeah with the able to talk to me yes it. Was that 20 short you know they have to be i thought ok just so they shoot the elephants painting hunting rifles were going to get a great was out today were going to be able to use excess to chop off big access to space and they cut the faces cut 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 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 her. 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 because its a legacy project these animals. They live to 607080 years old my mom isnt going to be around to see these animals in with them in the way. This is the sun this put up. With us for 4 years. And we had a broken back late. You see is that cliffs leg was broken and fused to 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 school and this is boyle she is not nearly 5 years old. The. Young elephants have come to us. Yes specially 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 very 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 then the whole the whole expression changes and that the ears evenly when theyre smiling. I have no science. To prove that i cant and i can say yes elephants 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 its so special to watch. Most people think to stand out in this is this you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand out of the News Business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers. Question. This is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. What happens to her family and daughters in florida another mother daughter is buried in a cemetery in healing messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the Police Needed 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 court b b b i am shocked shocked as far off society we feel. We dont know shell just a stroke on. The end of this trial unfortunately you. Will still not know all children just. The. Glory. Now with this little infant ill be happy why thats because those. Sins of my children its bad to say im. Sure. Any elephant will and i dont will but it seems like. The most difficult parts of the job would be. To make a decision. Which i know 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. In 2017 october. 17th. We discovered that if they were. Elephants which were crude device a unique ways in. India they say no it was too. Plastic bags of used to braid when they. Interact in the trees industry. Is it was dropping some moisture from the part of the oranges which way in the inner part of the plastics so i think that is all the one which i tried to do the elephants using this. From a far distance in the old they were also coming from they want to point. To the fitting area. 2017 china imposed on task every imports however the number of elephants being killed is not diminishing every year African Customs Service has destroyed dozens of tonnes of ivory confiscated from poachers. And were killed. In. Front of them from a crossbench actually be. And how many pieces about. There were. More divorce in each case than was. 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. The truck came here every day 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 we were worried about it getting stuck in stead of that we we built this 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 stage 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 so 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. Go. Go. And this is better not problem now i. Thats got. The theyre growing bigger these in. And theyve said to ringback say its all been 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 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. 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. Safe within the fence 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 so thats where the Wild Elephants can come out and then they can meet with these elephants in the night here 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 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 busy 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. It was one of the inspirations for why my mom started the 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 same. 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. Just as mates or 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 a wild compared to its in the bush but well miss them of course i cant lie that i would miss them you know we will miss them of course but most of all d well be happy for them that theyre off free in the wild. We still got you to entitle you to be assumed to be. On the cool were going to call you the president. You. Could want to take him on getting out of. Each room to look at him and told. You dont have time to eat too much hog it should be a good tone quiz on the often to get the if you want to feel when im in a good job until in the fall that you can fire going to family dont come fall who will do marketing your. Imagine a powerful. 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