00:00What we've seen the last few days culminating in the elephant capture today, transported
00:06to a whole other ecosystem, that right there is what we're after.
00:09They've got several thousand elephants, enough that they can use that elephant population
00:14to populate other national parks.
00:18The elephant conversation is always a very poignant one.
00:22It's a conversation that's fraught with politics, fraught with emotion.
00:26It's a highly charismatic animal that we're dealing with, so you get a lot of armchair
00:31critics that will criticize the way that they moved or the way that they managed.
00:38Because of us being able to make them seem human-like, we get very emotional about elephants.
00:47But this complicates the conservation, because now you've got a lot of emotions rather than
00:56actual conservation decisions, which are actually for the health of many species, not
01:05just one.
01:06And we've got to get away from that and make a decision about more than one species.
01:12If we want that system to function correctly, you have to have more than one species.
01:19In order for elephants to exist on this planet into future generations, we've got to look
01:23at them pragmatically.
01:25If we can truly get the right scientists in place, include the communities, and have the
01:29conservation technicians, I like to call them, in place, elephants have got a very bright
01:34future.
01:35They do very well when they're protected.
01:37They do very well in areas where there's no poaching.
01:40And they are very beneficial to not only an ecosystem, but to a human landscape as well.
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