I have always lived following my
instinct but as you know there
that it does not control I would like
ask you a question
I send back a few but I would like
know who among you in the room has
already dreamed of taking care of wildlife
wild there are some there are
maybe a little bit more but I think
it’s a dream that many of us
have had and me too young I dream
I dreamed of becoming a veterinarian
wild animals and very quickly I
integrated houses alfort and then there
I had plenty of elephant lyon
in my dreams but very quickly my
teachers explain to me that I have no
future in this niche and that of any
way this niche does not exist big
disappointment but during my studies I
discover that we will lose perhaps a
iconic animal in nature and
not least because it is the
black rhinos that poachers
are exterminating entirely
in nature the situation was
totally out of control
because they also exterminated all
the people who interposed between
them and this precious horn that
now reaches 90 thousand dollars the
kilo that only to be used
as traditional medicine against
fever or against cancer
especially in Asia so there was still
that 2000 in the world at that moment and I
decides to dedicate my thesis to this
species and then I join society
zoological institute of London is there with a
other veterinarian we discover
that in fact this species does not reproduce
not at all in captivity what wanted
to say that if this species were brought
to disappear in nature
we did not have any valves
safety I also discover that we do not
knows practically nothing about this species
in its natural environment and even less
how they breed
so in fact I will find out
after that why this species had
been so little studied if you want
really know what does it mean out of
control
imagine a guided missile of a ton
launched 40 km per hour
roll up that nothing can stop except
a tree maybe but that’s
besides for that I know very
to climb trees
but that I did not know it yet so
I pursue with determination model
to discover how does the
evening financial in nature and I
settle in zimbabwe in a
sanctuary of black rhinos that
will become the largest reserve
deprived of Africa and there I have to
found in five hundred thousand hectares
these animals in a very specific way
very regular so I had planned
to put transmitter collars for
find them
but at the last moment the government
forbids any intervention any
anesthesia on this species so my
program my plan falls to the water alas
let’s talk about it with this friend with whom we
create this reserve
he just tells me yes but
kaufmann and in africa you do everything
time a plan because that’s the
nature that controls the nature that
dominates you make a plan when you
have a matriarch elephants that you
continue your land rover at any
look like nothing seems to stop you
make a plan when one day you open
your crate of beer and you
discover also a female cobras with
all his family
but this friend manages to convince me
that in fact I will succeed in finding
merino thanks to Shanghai trackers
so that’s ring it’s a tribe he
knows well since he had been
raised with them and that’s how I
Younger Younger Younger
16 years old who quickly becomes my
assistant then assistant is a good
big word because when it took
we were leaving track and both of them
rhinos the first day as much tell you
that we were also terrorized
but his daughter did not show it to me
because year change which more is son
of the leader we do not show absolutely his
fear and the vision of the conservation of
the wildlife has totally changed a little
as if we are going back and a glove because
that I had the chance to live and
discover the bush through the
eyes of those who live in these
exceptional places and who the
know better than anyone
because they need it for
sustenance to feed himself for
heal they use it for all and this
intimate and deep connection they have with
nature is at the base of their culture
and that I did not understand thanks to fib
yann because we had to
can be six to eight hours a day
ready individuals if these females
rhino only through their
imprints on their fingerprints
that is soon twenty identified
perfectly they could also me
show that a young male had
tried to mate with this
female then that the old dominant male
had happened had given a good
lesson to those young slingers
he also showed me all the plants
who had been grazing by this animal
like this form which is a plant
highly toxic for all
species including man but whose
rhino crazy but we do not know
why but the result is that they get
put when they have consumed
a lot to stagger
and then in general we find them
asleep under a tree and in addition he
snore this is the scoop of the evening
even the rhino snores after a good
cooked
so all these years spent with
the songs guys convinced me of a
thing that conservation of
endangered ecosystems had no future
that otherwise we return to the communities
indigenous peoples and the
right to manage and therefore to protect
natural resources they know
better than anyone else I’ll give you a
80% of biodiversity is
find on peoples lands
natives and that I was lucky
then to do it with my husband we
have spent more than ten years in the dead
Mozambique has developed a program
of community conservation of all
pieces so with the communities
local and for local communities
and here it was the people who me
nor a fishing people who lives all
to the north of mozambique then the
mozambique we speak of situation out of
control either it is necessary to imagine the
country then second poorest country
in the world that had been destroyed
ravaged by 30 years of war there
had nothing more road any
way there was no cars not
infrastructure obviously not
electricity there were mines
everywhere and then we discover a
old tub in working order with
which we are going to explore the coast
for several weeks and then everything
to the north we discover a
extraordinary island surrounded by a
exceptional biodiversity that
nobody suspected when we arrived
on the beach the fishermen shows us
with pride the seals that are filled
of 2-2-2 turtle he also shows us
their miraculous catch that are
composed of the rarest fish and
in fact without knowing we were coming from
discover one of the last eden of
marine biodiversity in the world
so to explore its riches
we have established programs of
search with local fishermen and
with scientists biologists
sailors of the highest level
here again our technique our
strategy was to combine knowing
do traditional methods
scientists because we knew that the
local fishermen knew
but no one their reefs
coral and there the results have
surpassed all our expectations
when these teams came
present their results together
in the village the conclusions were
exactly the same one needed
to protect such a place of the reef that the
old ones by the way knew under the
name of schools of fish so suddenly
the community decided to create a
shrine around this place for
protect this place from overexploitation
and the nuance is there it was their
decision no one told them the
to do that was their decision because
it was their heritage and it’s
always
and that was their future and could a
day I was sitting in the village
with a group of women and there we
discussions and we were talking about their
priorities of their challenge of their
living conditions and I question them
and the women listened to me with
Warning
and then they looked at me with a little
of astonishment and go mouse as well
nicely and but it says simply
but for us the only priority is
to be able to feed the children in the evening
and there is the whole paradox of these
places where there is still a lot of
biodiversity
you have an abundance rich in
natural resources absolutely
phenomenal but you have them
communities that are among the most
poor in the world who are locked up in
a cycle of infernal poverty and
especially women because they are
women who are falling under the weight of
responsibilities to meet the
their family’s needs
they are the ones who will fetch the water
are they going to fetch the wood
they are the ones who take care of the
their children and as soon as there is
a dwindling of natural resources
because there are pressures
from the outside and overexploitation
because there is restricted access
to its natural resources
and here it is still a paradox of
certain protected areas and well
women can no longer provide
needs of their families and so we have
terrible problems problems
malnutrition
we have health problems in
latin america for example you have
infant mortality rates that
are 60% higher among the peoples
indigenous to the rest of the
population what is huge
you have to know the indigenous people
are often around the world are
geographically isolated
they are socially marginalized they
have little access to education
very often no alternative
economic and so they are locked up
in this cycle of infernal poverty
so let’s go back to our women who neither
having understood that we have decoded
develop health programs
program education
economic alternatives that
allowed to be more independent
economically and still today
ten years later it’s still the
community that manages and protects this
exceptional natural heritage
now we are expanding through the
foundation
this holistic conservation model
focused on women that we can
describe like me or with women
ones because we link the health of
the human felt broadly to the
animal health and the health of
the one race environment with women
and now I am more often in
europe and I was very surprised at
start because people ask me
often but how do you do to
remain optimistic and I must say that the
question does not even arise for word
so we think about it I think
it may be because it does not
not pose with these exceptional women
with which I have the chance to
to work
they are for me a source
of extraordinary inspiration by their
humility by their humor by their
resilience by their courage and especially
by their wisdom the wisdom of those who
have understood and they still know
a thing we unfortunately have
forgot we are only one of
elements of nature
can not do without our future
depends on your future depends on
but we monitor the ever thank you
[Applause]
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