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30 years ago, elephant Mwana Nzo and

her family were running for their lives.

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Then a young calf, she could only watch in fear as

the animals of Gorongosa National Park became

tragic casualties of Mozambique’s 16 years of war.

Flash forward almost two decades.

Oh, the other ones are coming, too.

Mwana Nzo is still there, right?

Oh.

This is Mwana Nzo and her family now.

Oh, now they’re getting our wind.

Oh, wow, Mwana Nzo is coming!

Mwana Nzo is a survivor, but they say

elephants never forget.

And this elephant’s memories have left her with three-tons of attitude.

These elephants have a culture of fear and aggression

toward people based on bad experiences and it’s going to

take time for them to change their perspective.

I mean it’s terrifying but I’m not afraid because

the behavior is so fantastic.

That’s why you have to just stay and film while they’re charging you,

otherwise you wouldn’t get your answers.

What’s going on here is a large-scale,

a grand experiment in, in a, in a thriving ecosystem that's

coming back after a major disturbance.

That’s a very rare thing to be happening.

On the continent of Africa,

on the south-eastern coast, is the nation of Mozambique.

Here, Gorongosa National Park is a million acres of some of

the most diverse ecosystems on earth.

One of the most amazing things about this park,

we have here almost every type of natural habitat that

you would find in this type...

In this part of Africa.

They range from Afromontane meadows

to rainforests,

to Savannahs,

to a vast network of rivers, lakes, and marshes.

Many years ago, it was an Eden so filled with animals it was called,

“The place Noah left his ark.”

In the 1950s and ‘60s,

Gorongosa was a popular tourist destination

for the rich and famous.

But in the mid-1970s, everything changed.

A war for independence from Portugal began,

followed by a civil war that raged until 1992.

For almost two decades, the combatants used the park

as a bank and a larder.

Of 2,000 elephants, they killed 90% for ivory to buy guns,

leaving a terrible void.

PEDRO (off-screen): I knew this Gorongosa National Park

before restoration.

We used to spend three weeks to come across with a elephant,

single elephant.

They slaughtered the herbivores for their meat.

From 3,500 hippos, there were fewer than 100.

Cape buffalo plunged from 14,000 to below 50.

Zebras from 3,300 to not even 20.

And wildebeest from 6,400 to barely more than a dozen.

The predators in the ecosystem fared just as badly.

Before the war, there were a couple hundred lions

in the park, in Gorongosa.

So, we went from a couple of hundred lions to under ten.

We saw multiple generations of lions lost over that time,

so it was pretty devastating to the population.

Hyenas, wild dogs,

and leopards were all but wiped out completely.

The word Gorongosa means “Place of danger,”

in the Mwani language and for the animals,

it had become just that.

When the guns finally went silent,

so too had the sounds of thundering hooves,

trumpeting elephants, and roaring lions.

GREG (off-screen): I first saw Gorongosa National Park

in about 2004 and I could drive all day long,

and it was eerie because there, there...

There weren’t even birds in the trees.

The park had truly lost its wildlife.

So, in 2008,

Greg Carr, in cooperation with the government of Mozambique...

Okay!

Began to breathe new life into this land of the dead.

Congratulations, you made it.

Long trip. Yeah, a long trip.

Say hi. A long trip.

Oh, I can see a trunk.

Yeah. Wow.

I am, uh, so excited that you made it.

This is history for Gorongosa.

Yeah, they are beautiful animals.

He started the Gorongosa Restoration Project,

a 20-year commitment to help restore the park to

its former glory, one species at a time.

GREG (off-screen): One might think of the restoration of Gorongosa Park as

an extraordinary natural experiment.

What I mean by that is almost all the wildlife were removed here.

Now, scientists from around the world get to follow the process

of the recovery of all that wildlife.

I, I do believe that the Gorongosa Restoration Project is

one of the most ambitious, and largest, uh,

definitely on the African continent and

probably on the, one the global scale.

It takes the work of many scientists,

but just as importantly,

the commitment of the people living around the park.

PAOLA (off-screen): We are co-existing with human communities in

this landscape.

Lions and people live together.

And what impacts people eventually impacts lions.

And, uh, that’s why we have the approach that we do

at the Gorongosa Restoration Project.

Now, about 15 years in,

the grand experiment is succeeding.

But there are challenges and mysteries lurking around every bush.

Take the elephants, for example.

From just 300 after the war,

their numbers have more than tripled to almost 1,000.

They’re coming back strong.

The trouble is, sometimes too strong.

It’s all right, girl.

It’s all right, it's all right.

Elephant behavior biologist Joyce Poole

began studying the Gorongosa elephants in 2011.

JOYCE (off-screen): These elephants are more aggressive than other elephants

I’ve experienced.

They’re more fearful.

They have a lot of reasons to be that way.

But these elephants would have seen terrible things,

terrible things.

I mean...

Mortars and automatic weapons

and helicopters, bad, as bad as it gets.

Because elephants are so long-lived,

many remember the violent deaths of their beloved family members

and that’s left deep scars.

JOYCE (off-screen): Part of what I’m here to do is to think through what

should be the strategy for visitors to the park.

How should they, uh, react to elephants?

How should they behave around elephants?

Well we just, we just saw some elephants that we were looking for.

Well, you spotted them.

Well done because they’re pretty camouflaged there.

Joyce and fellow elephant expert,

Petter Granli, were teaching Dominique Gonçalves to identify

and interpret elephant behavior.

Dominique has since become the park’s elephant ecologist.

Mwana Nzo is one of her best-known residents.

What do you think of her?

Wow, I...

Well, she’s very strong and I mean she leads everyone else.

And when she, I just get a little bit worried when she comes.

But then it was fine.

And, well, what else should I say?

She’s wild!

I like her a lot, yeah.

DOMINIQUE (off-screen): My first impression of Mwana Nzo

it was a huge surprise.

Mwana Nzo is a, is a beautiful elephant.

She’s actually tuskless.

She has no tusks.

The left ear has big hole or notch,

a very prominent characteristic that

really helps us recognize her.

But even without that, I think we would really recognize

Mwana Nzo just because of her behavior.

She’s fierce.

She’s very protective, defensive and she would

basically bring everyone with her to charge you.

So, that’s Mwana Nzo.

Mwana Nzo is a member of the Mabenzi family,

a close-knit, multi-generational group of about 40 elephants.

Like all elephant families, it’s led by a matriarch,

and composed of grandmothers, moms, daughters, and aunts.

Charging, and other aggressive behaviors,

are defensive mechanisms shared with

other traumatized elephants in Africa.

But can the Gorongosa elephants learn to trust people and relax?

DOMINIQUE (off-screen): It’s going to take a lot of time and work and

most importantly it’s going to take a lot of good behavior and

respect on our side towards elephants for them to heal and maybe forgive us.

Beautiful.

JOYCE (off-screen): So, our approach has been to stay much further away

from them and, uh, hope that that's gonna keep them from charging us,

and also allow them to get used to us.

It hasn't necessarily worked with everybody.

We're on a learning curve still.

Finding answers is a challenge,

but it’s a chance to understand behaviors that could

help distressed elephants throughout Africa.

Keeping Gorongosa’s elephants healthy

and happy is important for many reasons.

One is that the forests and grasslands depend on them.

Because of the quantities they consume,

they keep this forest or savannah in check.

They are the ones who keep it as gardeners,

trimming the trees and, you know, allowing other species to grow,

and that’s why we call them gardeners of the park.

Just as important to the ecosystem are the other herbivores.

Wildfires took a terrible toll after the war,

because there were too few browsers and

grazers to keep the plants in check.

Some species were so devastated,

it required special measures to bring them back.

Take the zebra.

If elephants are the gardeners of the forests,

zebra are the lawnmowers of the plains.

They crop tall grasses into short lawns that other herbivores prefer.

But zebra took a major hit during the war,

and they just weren’t recovering.

MATEUS (off-screen): So we would hope that the zebra would have, uh,

come back themselves.

And it hasn’t.

The numbers are stagnant, so we have to intervene.

One way to build up their numbers and

improve their gene pool was to move some zebra from a nearby location

that had plenty into Gorongosa.

But there’s no simple way to do that.

They’d first have to gather them using helicopters,

then herd them into a boma, or corral,

before shipping them cross-country.

Working with flighty prey animals

comes with risks as well as rewards.

To introduce animals is not a decision that one makes lightly.

There is always a risk that the animals may get injured or may die.

So it’s not an easy decision to make.

So we put a lot of time and effort, planning,

and research into preparing to make such a decision because

there is no manual to restoring a park like Gorongosa.

They carefully loaded them onto trucks to move them

to Gorongosa, hoping their plan would pay off.

If we want to bring the numbers up fast,

it increases the chances of survival,

better genetic, uh, mix.

So, there are a lot of, of pros by using these techniques.

The move was a success.

Gorongosa’s zebra now number around 50 and counting.

Gorongosa has also translocated other grazers to begin coloring

in the blank spaces on the canvas of the savannah.

So to get things going, we did reintroduce 200 buffalo.

We did reintroduce 200 wildebeest.

And in 2013,

35 eland made a dramatic entrance into the park.

Thanks to the rich habitat, there are now over 100.

RUI (off-screen): Every operation that we are having,

we are getting good results.

It’s not as fast as a lot of people want,

but this is nature, it takes its time to recover.

We're just giving a bit of a boost.

Gorongosa again has vast herds of antelope.

One grazer is doing so well, it has scientists mystified,

and intrigued.

Waterbuck went from about 3,500 before the war to only 100

that were left in the first post-war census.

Now, after almost 15 years of restoration,

waterbuck numbers are above 50,000,

which means that they're more than ten times more abundant

than they were before the war.

In fact, there are now more waterbuck in Gorongosa

than anywhere else in Africa.

But why?

To find out, ecologist Jen Guyton has a plan.

Right now, we're out on the floodplain,

we’re following the helicopter,

as it, uh, as the guys up there dart, uh,

waterbuck from the air.

.

Okay, we landed.

Okay, we're on our way.

So, they've just darted a waterbuck and, uh,

we're driving over to meet them.

Jen and her team will not only collar a waterbuck but

fit her with a small camera to learn more about the species and

why their numbers have skyrocketed in recent years.

But the waterbuck has some objections.

I'm working on cutting this waterbuck's beard, uh.

They've got quite long hair on their throat and

it can actually obscure the camera on the collar.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

Popped in the nose there.

Almost.

She's really fighting.

Hey lady, some people pay for their haircuts, you know?

She looks so fabulous.

With the haircut complete,

they collar her and put the camera in place.

It’s time for this waterbuck to rise and shine.

Oh.

And she's off.

Wow, she is fat.

Look at her.

Yeah, that's amazing.

A nice fat one.

This healthy waterbuck cow is now a kind of citizen scientist,

helping researchers understand her species’

overwhelming success in Gorongosa.

One explanation seems obvious.

JEN (off-screen): In a healthy African ecosystem,

you have a lot of large predators like lions and leopards and hyenas.

Here in Gorongosa, without those predators,

some of the prey species,

like waterbuck, are exploding in number.

But all that’s changing and it’s part of restoration leader

Greg Carr’s grand plan.

GREG (off-screen): In the first few years of the restoration,

we didn't worry too much about carnivores.

We were watching the, uh, the herbivores grow in number.

But there came a point where we realized that we needed to turn

our attention to carnivore reintroductions.

Like every step in Gorongosa’s pioneering journey,

this is a step into the unknown.

PAOLA (off-screen): Ten years ago, I landed in Gorongosa to begin

the first research ever on lions in this landscape.

And our team was expecting to find a pretty robust lion recovery

to have kicked in already, but we found quite the opposite.

You know, while large mammals such as impala,

and waterbuck, and buffalo,

and others had recovered to some degree,

what we found was that lions were still at 30% of their carrying capacity.

So that was a surprise.

And we began to dig deeper as to why lions

were really not kicking in as much as we had expected.

So, Paola’s team began putting GPS collars on key lions

so they could follow their movements and study their family groups.

One of the most successful is the Sungue pride,

named for the Sungue river on whose banks they make their home.

The king of the pride was a lion named Nginga.

PAOLA (off-screen): He's, he's a bit of an intense lion,

he's pretty mature, he's completely full of scars.

He's a rough beast of a lion, and very confident in his place.

Nginga, and lioness sisters Helena and Flavia,

became the royalty of the Sungue pride when the park began

to rebound around 2015.

But despite having many cubs, they lived in constant peril.

Gorongosa’s lions were falling prey to the only hunter deadlier than they.

PAOLA (off-screen): What we very quickly picked up on is that snaring

was basically killing our lions.

One in three of our lions were either being killed or actually maimed,

losing entire limbs in these wire snares and steel jaw traps

that were being set in the park.

Lions weren’t actually the intended target.

Poachers set snares on game trails,

hunting animals they could eat.

Lions followed the same prey and triggered the traps.

When you see snares, it's bad,

but when you see the actual effect that it causes,

animal in total suffering and pain.

And it's really revolting and you feel hopeless at that moment

but it also gives you strength that there's a lot more to do.

As lion experts looked for solutions,

the elephants again took center stage.

And not Mwana Nzo’s family this time.

Too often, a bull elephant’s GPS collar would signal

park officials that he and his buddies were heading across

the Pongue river to raid crops in a village on the outskirts of the park.

With the growing populations especially of elephants and

also growing number of people around the areas that elephants use,

it’s more likely for conflict to occur.

It’s a constant game between people and elephants trying to coexist.

Yeah, they’re getting really close to that house now.

Typically, when elephants invaded croplands in

Gorongosa park’s buffer zone, farmers and rangers tried to

frighten them off with fireworks and gunshots.

Right now we’re going to see if we can’t intervene

to scary away the animals that are disturbing the crops.

Buffalo and elephants.

It was dangerous work and the elephants

just kept coming back.

So, elephant expert Dominique Gonçalves tested a novel deterrent,

pioneered in Kenya.

Beehives.

The way we do is that we close these entry passages of

elephants that come from the park,

cross the river, entering the communities.

We closed these entering areas with these beehive fences,

which is basically beehives hanging together and, uh,

linked by a rope and poles.

When the elephants push the rope...

They disturb the bees,

who make a beeline for their eyes, trunks and ears,

sensitive areas where their stingers have the most effect.

It’s worked, and there’s a side-benefit.

It’s not only about stopping the elephants getting

to the mashambas or farms,

but it’s also about providing alternative livelihoods.

That sweet reward that is the honey really goes back to

the people in the community who are working for the beehives fences.

Across the park, there are many winners.

Baboons are everywhere.

Some say they’re as common as squirrels.

There are monkeys

and the mountain caves are bursting with bats.

PIOTR (off-screen): During one of our, uh, expeditions,

we were able to document 26 species of bats

in a single cave system.

So that’s, that's unheard of.

These are some of the highest numbers, uh,

on the globe.

There are civet cats,

porcupines,

warthogs,

and pangolins.

Pangolins are solitary, mainly nocturnal mammals,

covered in sharp scales made of keratin,

much like fingernails.

They use their long, sticky tongues to lap up

termites and ants.

Pangolins look and act a lot like anteaters and armadillos,

but they’re actually more closely related to bears, cats, and dogs.

They’re also the world’s most trafficked mammal.

Tens of thousands are poached every year.

Killed for their meat and scales,

wrongly believed to have medicinal qualities.

Gorongosa is home to the first pangolin rescue unit in Mozambique.

We here in Gorongosa have already started a new project,

which is to rehabilitate the pangolins,

and also to count all the pangolins we come across.

The pangolin rescue is headed by husband-and-wife veterinarians:

Tonecas and Mercia.

In the few years since the rescue started,

they’ve rehabilitated and released about 60 pangolins

like this one, named Boogli.

The Gorongosa National Park rangers have been working

on recovering pangolins that got caught by the illegal trade,

and are being sold on the black market,

So one day they found Boogli,

during this work that they usually do, and they brought her to us.

Over the time, Boogli was no longer just a wild animal in our eyes,

we take care of her with such love, she's like a child,

she's a member of our family.

We give her a bath. She likes play in the water.

Under their loving care,

Boogli is getting stronger.

She should soon be ready for release.

But survival in the wild is never a certainty for any animal.

Tragically, beautiful Helena and her mate, Nginga,

lost their lives to snares.

MATEUS (off-screen): The death of Helena meant a lot to the park.

We not only lost

one of our most beautiful, uh, lionesses, uh,

one that was giving a contribution to, uh,

the growth of the population, but, uh,

we also lost a, an animal we were all attached to.

The only bright spot is that their daughter, Tonhinga,

is becoming a powerful young lioness in her own right.

In fact, uh, Tonhinga,

who is now one of our adult lionesses

in the Sungwe pride, is herself having cubs,

and her cubs are having cubs.

So even though we lost Helena and Nginga the generations have continued on.

One reason these lions are thriving

is that park conservationists have

hit upon a winning strategy in the war on illegal poaching.

They’ve combined high-tech,

GPS collars that alert rangers and

veterinarians as soon as a lion is in trouble,

with low-tech boots on the ground,

an army of rangers,

comprised of local men and women, including reformed poachers,

who undergo seal team-style training.

PAOLA (off-screen): You know, these are wildlife rangers,

law enforcement officers from the communities themselves that

go out into the wilderness areas,

and actually sweep through the wilderness,

and collect snares and traps, and,

and protect these animals.

We had no lions snared for almost two years.

That was a record.

As for elephant queen Mwana Nzo,

she still has an attitude.

But there’s something happening in elephant families here

that offers hope for their future.

Joyce Poole has observed the Gorongosa elephants

doing something unusual:

nursing two calves at once.

And she has an idea why.

That, you see,

that’s a sign of how, how good the, uh, habitat is here.

Yes.

It’s very rare to see but I’ve seen it here a lot.

Look at that!

That’s so wonderful!

Also, some elephant mothers here are having babies every two years,

rather than every four,

as in other areas, another sign of Gorongosa’s rebirth.

DOMINIQUE (off-screen): It’s nice to see new babies,

new numbers coming, so this is all big actually

big wins that I, I, I'm happy to be here seeing all this.

All over the park, the rivers, floodplains, and

lake Urema support a wealth of life.

This is one of the largest water bird nesting colonies in Africa,

where more than 300 species make their home.

And this ancient reptile is also a survivor:

the Nile crocodile actually flourished during the war.

The hippos didn’t fare as well.

They were almost wiped out.

Okay.

So in 2009, the park imported a hippo family,

including a pregnant mom,

whose baby would contribute to the species’ success.

Now, there are almost 800 hippos in the park’s waterways,

a great improvement, but a lake that once supported 3,500

can use a few more.

When it comes to waterbuck, the park can use a few less.

One answer might be the re-introduction of predators who

haven’t roamed these grasslands in force for many years:

wild dogs also known as painted wolves.

In the past few years,

Gorongosa has flown some in from areas in South Africa where

they’ve lost the big, wild spaces they need.

Once they’re gradually acclimated to each other,

they’re released to the rich hunting grounds of Gorongosa.

PAOLA (off-screen): We started with 28 painted wolves that

we translocated into the park, two different packs.

So currently we have four different packs,

a few dispersal groups, and close to 110 painted wolves

roaming in the park.

So they've done really, really well here.

For park warden Pedro Muagura,

painted wolves have special meaning.

They’re his family’s spirit animal.

In Portuguese, we call them mabekos,

wild dogs.

My family is Muagura family and

we do respect this mabeko, uh,

because it's believed that they're protectors because when

lions want to attack members of my family,

mabekos used to attack lions.

And he said that until we had reintroduced

the painted wolf into Gorongosa Park he hadn't seen one in 30 years.

So in his words, the restoration of Gorongosa

is restoring the soul of his family.

As it turned out, they’ve also zeroed in on

a species that’s been out of balance in the park.

PAOLA (off-screen): You know, we never expected painted wolves to

prey so heavily on waterbuck.

Waterbuck are not even their preferred,

one of their preferred prey species.

Um...

They’re creeping up on this herd.

So they’re skulking.

The head, front of the heads are down and they’re creeping in.

So they’re laser-focused on that herd of waterbuck.

Here they go.

They’re running. They’re now running.

Here they go.

They’re going after these waterbuck.

The herd is split and they’re going after one.

Okay.

They got a waterbuck.

This is probably one of the first confirmed waterbuck kills

we’ve seen, and it’s happening right now.

Okay.

This is a way a small predator like a pack of wild dogs could

kick in pride, uh...

Population control.

Yeah, this is, this is ecology living and breathing.

Well, sad for the waterbuck,

of course, and I guess happy for the painted wolf,

but the point is that this ecosystem did need to find a rebalance.

We actually have now seen the waterbuck numbers start to go down and

the numbers of some of these other gorgeous species going up.

And I just thought, wow, that was exciting to see.

An even newer addition is another predator

long missing from Gorongosa.

In recent years, a lone male leopard has been spotted

only on camera traps, in and around the park.

Today could be the start of a much happier life for

the lonely leopard and for a leopardess who’d lost her home.

PAOLA (off-screen): Aircraft just took off from Beira carrying

our first female leopard to be reintroduced into

Gorongosa National Park.

Uh, we waited three years for this moment and

overcome many, many hurdles.

So, this is a very exciting day for us in the park.

She is from an area where leopards are sometimes unwanted.

Sometimes they’re perceived as a risk and a threat,

so she didn’t have a home anymore, and,

but now she has the wilderness of Gorongosa to,

to live in and thrive in.

Before the now-named Sena can enjoy her new home,

she has to come out of her travel crate.

Oh my God.

Wow! How's that?

PAOLA (off-screen): We’re very joyful right now.

We just saw one of the most beautiful animals on this planet, uh,

freed into Gorongosa National Park.

We've worked three years to get to this stage so

we hope she’s the first of many.

And, um, she's...

Welcome to paradise!

The hope is that Sena and the male will find

each other, and the sparks will fly.

As for the park’s elephant families,

Joyce and Dominique are still trying to bring them into

a state of peaceful coexistence.

Wow, that was powerful.

That’s called a trumpet blast.

Okay. It’s meant to frighten you.

Yeah. It did!

It kinda worked. Yeah!

And then, Mwana Nzo herself appears.

Oh, for goodness sakes.

What is she up to today?

Joyce Poole and Dominique Gonçalves struggle to

read Mwana Nzo’s body language.

Okay, so she’s rumbling.

Will she charge?

It seems Mwana Nzo has something else on her mind.

She’s more interested in the two male admirers

who’ve turned up, than in chasing cars.

She has to make the right choice to be sure she mates with

the highest-ranking male.

For Gorongosa’s elephants,

shifting the culture of aggression depends on their mothers.

It’s really going to depend of how certain females or matriarchs,

or family members behave now towards us.

And then that is what is going to be passed through to

the younger generation and other elephants.

Oh, look at what he’s doing with his trunk.

Okay.

Well, I think they’re starting to learn,

I think they're starting to learn that there’s a new era in Gorongosa.

An era in which they are safe.

That people don’t mean them any harm.

And if they can’t forget, maybe they can forgive.

Ready to go, my Boogli.

For Mercia, Tonecas,

and Boogli, today is bittersweet.

Now when we release her,

it will be a bit sad.

I hope they will multiply a lot,

and that anyone who comes here in Gorongosa

can have access during safaris and can see a pangolin.

The new cat on the block has already shown

the park’s impala she’s boss.

She’s looking fat and happy with a belly full of antelope meat.

There’s still been no sighting of her with the park’s male,

but there are promising signs.

PAOLA (off-screen): If Sena meets up with the male,

and it looks like she is overlapping with his home range

at the moment, they are very likely to have cubs together.

And then that would kickstart the recovery of leopards here.

And these would be probably the first cubs born on the park

in many decades.

The new pack of painted wolves has acquired a fan club.

They’ve charmed these children,

who live on the outskirts of the park.

These young ecologists are part of a larger effort

to help local communities enjoy Gorongosa.

First, I would like to say this is the best eco club that we’ve had.

GREG (off-screen): The philosophy we operate on here

is this is not a competition

between the people and the animals for the land.

It’s just the opposite.

And this intact wilderness is what provides the opportunity

for the people to have a sustainable lifestyle and

to have employment and in turn the people love the park.

Conservation, if we do not fulfill people's needs,

conservation will not have success.

There’s no question Gorongosa’s grand experiment is

succeeding on a grand scale.

The latest aerial census reveals an increase in large animals

from 10,000 in 2008 to more than 100,000 today.

I’m most excited about and, and actually most surprised about,

was how quickly the wildlife bounced back from almost nothing.

In fact, Gorongosa has so many of some species that

they can give them away to other parks.

The Gorongosa project has become

such an international conservation model,

that it’s been extended from a 20-year plan

to a 35-year plan.

And the park itself is expanding.

With more wild areas, it may soon compare in size to the Serengeti.

It is a real privilege to be working with such vision.

You know?

In, in a day and age where we see so much destruction across the planet,

I think Gorongosa turns that around and

shows the potential for recovery and restoration with

a very clear vision of bringing people and ecosystems together.

Oh, what’s that?

This is, this is lion paradise.

This is elephant paradise.

And ten years from now, 100 years from now,

1,000 years from now, I just want this to be like this.

I want this to be the paradise and I think it can be.

Captioned by Cotter Media Group.