Gorongosa National Park V3

Evening Standard

9/13/2023

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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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