Gorongosa National Park V3
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01:14 The park was officially declared as a conservation area
01:18 in 1960 by the Portuguese government.
01:21 And then a few years later, unfortunately, there
01:25 was a civil war here in Mozambique,
01:27 which lasted until 1992.
01:30 And then after that, only a few years later,
01:33 that's when they started with the restoration
01:36 of the Gorongosa National Park.
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01:43 It was in 2004 when the philanthropist Greg Carr came
01:48 to visit Mozambique.
01:50 And he came to see the park.
01:52 And he said, this is the place that I would like
01:55 to invest and see restored.
01:58 And since then, we've been able to reintroduce many animals.
02:02 We started with elephants, wildebeest.
02:07 We also did some hippos, some zebras.
02:10 So we did not reintroduce lions, because their population then
02:14 naturally started growing back again.
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02:19 Alongside that, we are also working
02:21 with the human development, so the people
02:23 that live around the park.
02:25 They are one of the most important stewardess
02:28 and activists for this park.
02:30 In general, women are the ones that are most vulnerable,
02:34 but at the same time, the ones that
02:36 are the key factor for society to change.
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02:44 This is one of our 100 girls club in the Gorongosa National
02:49 Park buffer zone.
02:51 The park supports the education system
02:54 through capacity building of teachers,
02:58 but also to extra curricular activities,
03:01 such as the girls club.
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03:07 We also reinforce the ability to read and write,
03:12 which is one of the limitations in our rural areas.
03:16 Besides that, we also tackle some
03:19 of the issues related to girls' adherence
03:23 to school, such as child marriage, early pregnancy,
03:26 and other gender-based violence.
03:29 So we work with what we call madrinas and padrinus.
03:33 The direct translation for that is godmothers and godparents,
03:38 which is a role that already exists in our culture.
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04:04 Having focus on women, we also want
04:09 to tell the story that women can be anything they want.
04:13 Being a ranger was something that was only for men,
04:16 because it's physical, because you
04:19 need to carry 10 kilos on your back walking under the sun.
04:23 But then we challenged it.
04:24 Now women can do that as well, the same way
04:27 women can go to the army.
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05:40 Our vision is this, to be a mirror of everywhere.
05:44 If people want to see really conservation,
05:47 just visit Gorongosa.
05:49 If you want to see really science, visit Gorongosa.
05:55 Our laboratory now, we are not talking about country level.
05:59 Now we are talking about Africa and worldwide.
06:05 We don't have science in other national parks,
06:11 the way how we are doing here.
06:14 This is becoming as a model, as a sample site.
06:20 When you want to see conservation with science,
06:24 come to Gorongosa.
06:26 If you want to see human development with conservation,
06:30 come to Gorongosa.
06:32 Economical level, if you want to see also change,
06:35 the way how people change their life from poverty
06:42 to good education and health, come to Gorongosa.
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07:08 For somebody who's never been to Gorongosa,
07:11 I would describe it as a place of hope.
07:16 We have brought a lot of hope to people and to the animals.
07:20 And so to be able to see these two things come together
07:24 and coexist, it's just the most amazing thing
07:28 that you can do and experience.
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