South Africa’s Kruger National Park – fighting poachers and disease | DW nature Documentary (VIDEO)
“Poachers are destroying our country’s future. Animals are our capital,” says Rendani Nethengwe, a gamekeeper in the Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Nethengwe is one of the most experienced rangers in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, responsible for the protection of animals in every respect: from poachers, from disease. This documentary accompanies him, veterinarian Peter Buss and zoologist Antoine Marchal on their forays in Kruger National Park – stunning an elephant for a tuberculosis check, hunting down poachers and monitoring the wild dog population. Kruger National Park ranger Rendani Nethengwe holds out a bloody cartridge he has just cut out of the carcass of a dead elephant. “It’s sad,” he says. “Poachers are destroying our future. Animals are our capital – they bring tourists and money into the country.” He is currently very worried about the elephants in the game reserve after identifying the human tuberculosis pathogen in a blood sample taken from a dead one. Now he regularly takes blood samples from all the animals in Kruger Park. Wild dogs are among the rarest animals in Kruger but things are looking up. “We now have a really big pack of them here in the park again,” says zoologist Antoine Marchal, who has been bringing the dogs together in a group. That normally ends in bloody carnage – but this time it has created a happy family instead. In any case, wild dogs need to hunt large in large packs to survive. Something that started as an experiment now promises to save the rare canines from extinction.
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Este documental también está disponible en español / This documentary is also available in Spanish: https://youtu.be/-f5gMpwHRE4
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Why are they not using Drone to track poachers?
Your work is wonderful ful DW I really like it
Why is the bottom left corner blurry?
This documentary is very eye opening. It is amazing to see all the hard working people that take care of the park.
Elephants are very family orientated, protecting their young and each other. They do not attack for no good reason. Like us, they grieve beside loved ones, and baby elephants can even die of grief.
So I prepose a solution: Shoot to Kill anyone who does not have a permit to be in that area, or is not a known villager.
amazing work. thank you
Makes me sick to my stomach
They really do a good job these people .
Dedicated and very skilled
Death penalty to all poachers.
Stupidity, greed and short-sightedness is a bad mix for the people of Africa.
Good Video!
"These elephants might have human tuberculosis": let's stick our unmasked head down their throat and breathe in their contaminated air. Genius!
hope the Zimbabwe experience doesn't happen in SA.
how about having the villagers set up their own tourist stop with community store offering locally made products and souvenirs that are placed within for consignment sale ?
Really Gorgeous Work
elephant meat looking good though
2nd comment from South Africa!!!!!!!!!
what the poachers did is unacceptable
First in India,
First like,
First comment!
Kill these poachers!!!