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And if we start taking bits and pieces of those out,
we are left with a far
This is like
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To think that we can play and have as meaningful
and enriched a roll in our lives,
not right now only, but for future generations,
with missing parts, is flawed.
- And those missing parts would then stop
the tourist industry that comes in to Africa.
And I think we have to understand that in 2019
So if you take that away from Africa
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- We come from an exploring background
and a conservation filmmaking background.
And at some point we realized
we wanted to really get into
helping people and wildlife
and basically giving second chances.
So the Great Plains Foundation is designed
around these second chances.
So we move rhinos across the subcontinent
or we send women to India, you know,
so it's a range of things, but it's really
all about those second chances.
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- Now, it is too often
and the atrocities that are driving us forward
because we know if we can't persist in stopping them
there won't be the true Africa,
We had been working a long long time
on lions and elephant interaction.
And we were very aware that lions were
possibly taking down elephants, but never witnessed it.
We tried for an eight-year period
and eventually we were successful in capturing it
on film at nighttime at two in the morning.
And that stays with me because what we felt
at the time is I think we straight away gave empathy
to the 21 year-old elephant cow.
She was roughly 21 years old.
And it really was, you know, how you
sort of wishing for something to get up and survive.
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- The tipping point of that or the changing point is
where it's not the natural hardship.
Where for instance, we find an elephant
that's caught in a human-started fire
or a snare or with a bullet wound,
and then we will move heaven and earth to fix that.
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by the time the world opens up again
and people start traveling and wanting to come
and see wildlife in Africa, which we agree is important,