Africa Documentary
Oct. 10th, 2022 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI'm loving this "Africa" documentary by the BBC on HBO Max, narrated and hosted by Richard Attendborough. The final episode discusses the conservation efforts that African continent and others around the world, but mainly Africans, are attempting to preserve their wildlife and fight climate change.
And they appear to enjoy it.
1. Massala Warriors are now acting as guardians of the lions in their territory, as opposed to killing them as a right of passage. Now they are employing their skills to protect them, and as a result increased the population from 30,000 to 100,000.
2. Saving the green sea turtles - by protecting them from nets, and if injured, healing them and saving them.
Saving ecosystems is how you save Africa's future - so they are working hard to do so.
They view the turtles - as every turtle counts. Climate change threatens them - since the heat of the eggs in the sand determines gender, and with the higher temperatures there are fewer and fewer males.
3. In Mozambique - they are working hard to save the wildlife. It used to be a huge tourist destination over 50 years ago - with many tourists flocking to it from around the world. There was an old restaurant, with local lions. The restaurant is long gone along with Lions.
A Civil War tore it apart and killed 95% of the wildlife. It came very close to vanishing, but it is slowly coming back. There are reintroducing life at Gorgonza National Wildlife Park.
In 1977, the People's Republic of Mozambique, under the leadership of Samora Machel declared itself a Marxist-Leninist state.[2] A rebel army is known as RENAMO sprung up to oppose the new government. Feeling threatened by FRELIMO's new one-party government in Mozambique, neighbouring Rhodesia and South Africa began arming and supplying RENAMO.[3] Once Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980, direct support for RENAMO came from South Africa with the intention of destabilizing Machel's government. Initially dismissed by Machel as a group of "armed bandits", RENAMO's war developed into a full-scale national threat by 1981.[4] In December 1981 the Mozambican National Resistance (MNR, or RENAMO) fighters attacked the Chitengo campsite and kidnapped several staff members, including two foreign scientists. The Mozambican Civil War lasted from 1977 to 1992.
The violence increased in and around the Park after that. In 1983 the park was shut down and abandoned. For the next nine years Gorongosa was the scene of frequent battles between opposing forces. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting and aerial bombing destroyed buildings and roads. The park's large mammals suffered huge losses. Both sides in the conflict slaughtered hundreds of elephants for their ivory, selling it to buy arms and supplies. Half of Gorongosa's elephants evolved to be tuskless.[5] Hungry soldiers shot many more thousands of zebras, wildebeest, African buffalo, and other ungulates.[6] Lions and other large predators were gunned down for sport or died of starvation when their prey disappeared.[citation needed][7][8]
A cease-fire agreement ended the civil war in 1992 but widespread hunting in the park continued for at least two more years.[citation needed] By that time many large mammal populations—including elephants, hippos, buffalo, zebras, and lions had been reduced by 95 percent. Surveys counted just 15 buffalo, 5 zebra, 6 lions, 100 hippos, 300 elephants, and just a handful of wildebeest. The cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs and rhinoceros were nearly extinct.
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But now, they are restoring it - and have made quite a bit of headway, moving slowly towards restoring big animals to it.
In 2004 the Government of Mozambique and the US-based Carr Foundation agreed to work together to rebuild the park's infrastructure, restore its wildlife populations and spur local economic development—opening an important new chapter in the park's history.[citation needed]
Since the beginning of the project, aerial surveys of wildlife have shown sharp increases in the number of large animals.
In the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, park rangers conducted rescue missions using their helicopter, boat, and tractor.According to Gorongosa Project president Gregory Carr, the park was "right in the middle of the impacted area". Roughly half the park was flooded due to the cyclone, but impacts to wildlife were expected to be minimal as the animals would be able to migrate to higher ground. The protection of this area was cited as a reason that the impacts of the flood on the human population were less severe, as the protected wilderness area can moderate the flow of water.
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4. They also show various countries across Africa joining together to plant a barrier of trees between the dry Sahara and the rest of the continent. And putting in more than one line and barrier.
The documentary makes a powerful case for protecting the wilderness in Africa and ensuring it's future, along with it's delicate ecosystem.
Made me want to visit, help in the conservation efforts, and form a deep respect for the continent and for the BBC for doing the documentary series.
And they appear to enjoy it.
1. Massala Warriors are now acting as guardians of the lions in their territory, as opposed to killing them as a right of passage. Now they are employing their skills to protect them, and as a result increased the population from 30,000 to 100,000.
2. Saving the green sea turtles - by protecting them from nets, and if injured, healing them and saving them.
Saving ecosystems is how you save Africa's future - so they are working hard to do so.
They view the turtles - as every turtle counts. Climate change threatens them - since the heat of the eggs in the sand determines gender, and with the higher temperatures there are fewer and fewer males.
3. In Mozambique - they are working hard to save the wildlife. It used to be a huge tourist destination over 50 years ago - with many tourists flocking to it from around the world. There was an old restaurant, with local lions. The restaurant is long gone along with Lions.
A Civil War tore it apart and killed 95% of the wildlife. It came very close to vanishing, but it is slowly coming back. There are reintroducing life at Gorgonza National Wildlife Park.
In 1977, the People's Republic of Mozambique, under the leadership of Samora Machel declared itself a Marxist-Leninist state.[2] A rebel army is known as RENAMO sprung up to oppose the new government. Feeling threatened by FRELIMO's new one-party government in Mozambique, neighbouring Rhodesia and South Africa began arming and supplying RENAMO.[3] Once Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980, direct support for RENAMO came from South Africa with the intention of destabilizing Machel's government. Initially dismissed by Machel as a group of "armed bandits", RENAMO's war developed into a full-scale national threat by 1981.[4] In December 1981 the Mozambican National Resistance (MNR, or RENAMO) fighters attacked the Chitengo campsite and kidnapped several staff members, including two foreign scientists. The Mozambican Civil War lasted from 1977 to 1992.
The violence increased in and around the Park after that. In 1983 the park was shut down and abandoned. For the next nine years Gorongosa was the scene of frequent battles between opposing forces. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting and aerial bombing destroyed buildings and roads. The park's large mammals suffered huge losses. Both sides in the conflict slaughtered hundreds of elephants for their ivory, selling it to buy arms and supplies. Half of Gorongosa's elephants evolved to be tuskless.[5] Hungry soldiers shot many more thousands of zebras, wildebeest, African buffalo, and other ungulates.[6] Lions and other large predators were gunned down for sport or died of starvation when their prey disappeared.[citation needed][7][8]
A cease-fire agreement ended the civil war in 1992 but widespread hunting in the park continued for at least two more years.[citation needed] By that time many large mammal populations—including elephants, hippos, buffalo, zebras, and lions had been reduced by 95 percent. Surveys counted just 15 buffalo, 5 zebra, 6 lions, 100 hippos, 300 elephants, and just a handful of wildebeest. The cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs and rhinoceros were nearly extinct.
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But now, they are restoring it - and have made quite a bit of headway, moving slowly towards restoring big animals to it.
In 2004 the Government of Mozambique and the US-based Carr Foundation agreed to work together to rebuild the park's infrastructure, restore its wildlife populations and spur local economic development—opening an important new chapter in the park's history.[citation needed]
Since the beginning of the project, aerial surveys of wildlife have shown sharp increases in the number of large animals.
In the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, park rangers conducted rescue missions using their helicopter, boat, and tractor.According to Gorongosa Project president Gregory Carr, the park was "right in the middle of the impacted area". Roughly half the park was flooded due to the cyclone, but impacts to wildlife were expected to be minimal as the animals would be able to migrate to higher ground. The protection of this area was cited as a reason that the impacts of the flood on the human population were less severe, as the protected wilderness area can moderate the flow of water.
Wiki backing up documentary
4. They also show various countries across Africa joining together to plant a barrier of trees between the dry Sahara and the rest of the continent. And putting in more than one line and barrier.
The documentary makes a powerful case for protecting the wilderness in Africa and ensuring it's future, along with it's delicate ecosystem.
Made me want to visit, help in the conservation efforts, and form a deep respect for the continent and for the BBC for doing the documentary series.
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