One Woman's Remarkable Journey to Protect Lions | Short Film Showcase
[Music] Some of the small things that I love about Wonka is just this analyzed beautiful, the best, the world life. [Music] I love being in the voice, I love our life conformation. [Music] In the symbol society, it's difficult for women to be away from their family. There's a pride, there's a big pride, although it separates sometimes. Sometimes, so it's a huge pride.
Hopefully, we like the first time I saw a lion in the world, it was extraordinary. [Music] The last time I saw the lion was in 2015. I knew very well because he was one of my study lions. He had a collar and we were tracking him, and I was collecting data with the cubs. I didn't expect that to be the last time that I'll see. I'd say it was the last time that I saw.
You killed a 13-year-old lion, a tourist attraction in Zimbabwe. The safari industry special was perhaps Zimbabwe’s most famous lion, the majestic male 13 years old with the famous black mane has been killed by hunters. I think it's important to have some good come out of this disgusting tragedy.
So this is the website for the wildlife conservation research unit at Oxford. Wild sea are you [Music]. It opens many people's eyes to learn conservation issues, and it also helped me to cover my fourth year of PhD at Oxford University. I was at home in Kimberley when I had that is all was shot. I live in Kimberley; my family's there.
It's a small town in the northern cape and South Africa. It's complicated because I live in three countries. I'm living in Kimberley at the moment with my family, but I'm also studying in Oxford in the UK, and I also spent some time in the field in animation effect where I'm studying lions. I have to find a balance between my work in the National Park and my son.
[Music] It has been a process for him to understand. You know, when he was little, it was difficult for him every time I went away. But as improved order, he’s now more understanding of the situation. The past ride from Kampala, South Africa, to one National Park is very long. Right? It takes more than 36 hours.
I wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning and get to the bus. The bus will take me to Johannesburg in South Africa. In Johannesburg, it frightens me to be there, and it's not safe. So I change buses and take another pass that means with me in LA oil' in Zimbabwe. At the border, it may take hours for the bus to be processed and for us to reprocess the bus from Blower to Engage.
It's unpredictable; sometimes it's late, and it's not a large and college, so it's not comfortable at all. And sometimes it's parent. [Music] It's always exciting to see the land. It always feels like the first time, so I'm always excited when I feel the like.
Oh yeah, I think in order for us to come up with conservation measures, we have to understand how especially health, so we record how many individuals they are, their sex, their age, and whether they belong to that pride or their new individuals. For females, some of the data collecting is very abundant data to stop.
You can tell me to stop when you see something. Okay? Are we driving and recording? No one was our try it out. We're sitting in front of the vehicle on a specialized it counting all the animal track ceases. We collect data on all the animal species that we find. You know, there's this where the hero say she is risky because we do a lot of walking.
Even, like when you are driving, this always a risk of encountering elephants between lions and buffaloes. So it's always risky. All the prefer work with our wonderful sometimes difficult to be the only woman among all the men, but they treat me as an equal, and they expect me as a person.
And I think that's why we work together very well. It would be easier to go and wake in another country and be a scientist somewhere else. It's so default to her to survive in Zimbabwe. The economy is collapsing, and so it is really difficult to get by. But I would want to stay in Zimbabwe and health field Zimbabwe. It was there; the future will be brighter.
It's all waited; they have things that I boiled. They think that I love. I love my son and I love my job. Have you thought about giving up? [Music] There are moments when I have thought about giving out. It had been all men in science society; it doesn't remain the same way they treat men.
It's not acceptable for me to be away or to travel a lot, but we're men to do the same thing; it's acceptable. But it's something that I love, and so I have to find a way to move forward. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] You [Music] You [Music]