African Safari Page #6
- Year:
- 2013
- 85 min
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so we have to drive around
the Southern part of the flood plains.
It will take us two days to get there.
In the 1960's, the
government of Botswana
embarked on an ambitious project
to protect the country's wilderness.
Ironically, the program
has been so successful
that the authorities now have to
cope with increasing elephant numbers.
Their population has increased
from 40,000 in the 1980s
to 130,000 today.
The large herds
that concentrate along the river
have destroyed most
of the trees in the area
and human-elephant
conflict is on the rise.
There is no easy solution
to this problem.
The Botswana government
is against culling
and translocating mass
numbers of elephants
where their numbers are dwindling.
It is expensive and impractical.
If nature is left to take its course,
a severe drought
could wipe out thousands of elephants
with starvation.
But the future of the elephant is
in the balance.
in the rest of Africa,
I believe it is only a matter of time
before this population too is affected.
It's getting late,
we should look for a place to camp.
Not too close to the water though,
there are huge crocodiles in the Chobe.
Let's check out the sunset first.
Yeah, look at that.
with elephants in the foreground.
Stunning man, stunning.
The next day, we drive along the bank
of the Chobe,
hoping to observe large
herds of elephants.
I have been around wild elephants
since I was a child,
but this is my first visit to Chobe.
It is not unusual here
to see scores of elephant families
numbering in the hundreds
gather along the river.
These impalas are unusually relaxed.
Yeah, in most places they just bolt off
in front of an approaching vehicle.
It is a bit early in the day
for the elephants to come to the river,
to see along the Chobe.
Over there, hippos...
What are they doing out of the water
at this time of the day?
- Oh Kevin, look what's coming.
- What?
In the distance... fantastic!
Beautiful, what a scene!
What a sighting.
The two largest African mammals
are rarely seen together.
of the water at night.
During the day,
they chill out in the river
and are seldom seen on the bank.
Elephants on the other hand, mostly
head to the river in the afternoon
to escape the heat of the day.
This is such a fun scene.
In a few minutes we witness
the entire ritual of the elephants'
daily trip to the river,
drinking, mud splashing, dusting
and socializing!
It's back to the water
for that battle scarred old male.
It looks like the beach
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