See 3 Lions Get a Brand New Home in the Wild | Short Film Showcase
[Music] Lyonne are dwindling in number in wild areas and there's not many more landscapes left available for them to expand into. They are persecuted wherever they go. It becomes important then to look after the populations that you've got.
Wine cereal, and it really gets into your blood. It's a melting pot of opportunity and development in a conservation perspective. Sometimes the camera self, which was formed in 2006 after the Goombah community received land that to their heads. We met with some NGOs, white lands, and they wanted to know how a vision.
The community took a bold step to save this land aside for conservation rather than having a traditional language. Nature conservation can also happen for black communities as well. They've been a community of firsts: first black runners, first proclaimed area. We started to work and work and work. It's going to be our own camp reserve so that we can generate more business opportunity.
It's going to get this reserve to be attractive as community owners of the land. There are the leaders in community conservation environment and they have really well managed lion populations. They've got good genetic diversity on their property. We're almost at full capacity actually, a little bit. However, we have the ability to distribute the genetics from Pinder elsewhere.
Right now we've got quite a task at hand. The way that worked in our favor are all the checks have been blown out and you can see it. "Ok copy job, got you all right, I'm going to come there now, seize it and have a look." Lovely! We find the animal; he found some males that we're looking for.
We know it plans to catch all these lions tomorrow. I think it's a good idea to try and put this male into the bottom, and they need a square. So we've just pulled it, getting the dart in, then losing sight of them once a dance in, that's the biggest issue. As long as you go to bait, they will normally return to the bait they moved from when we last tenants are. We pretty much have to try to call them up from wherever they are.
But okay, there is right here some. Is it definitely the one at the back there? It's important to know which animals you're getting and what animals you're giving so that you're not having two bloodlines that are very closely linked to breeding with each other.
Again, I think at times you really thought this wasn't going to work just before the way they came in. We were lucky enough to get the first mouse. This is a six-man. We would hope that we're going to be part of the southern African lion meta population management to ensure genetic diversity is maintained on these small pockets of disconnected reserves.
But everything I've seen, yeah I look. I don't know how much of coops gonna help in this one day. [Music] Finally working after a morning with some good way. We hope to get these two females now. We need to rush so we don't lose them in a thick bush or the grass where there are. The moments are exciting; they still haven't really formed pride structures as such. So it's the ideal age for us to take a male from another pride and these two females from a warden's perspective.
It's very close to her; we want to see lions in the wild. So now working with the Gumby community here are some kind. We've been able to do that looking good. They've traveled well and hopefully they adapt to their new grandma. [Music]
Yeah, after a long week of work, Lee sitting inside the some kind of oma, we've got our three beautiful lions coming back to the area after 100-odd years. Rewilding the property as an apex predator is going to create a real natural system that's going to make the reserve thrive. They are all tolerating into the wall, which is a really good sign for the bonding process.
I think it's looking good. So very here, they're variable open to telling my government. A passel of them is the last big page of my dream. It's just paving the way for the future of this reserve and this community and the continued effort to contribute to the biodiversity and conservation of South Africa and Africa at lives. [Music] [Applause] [Music] You [Music]