1. Man riding bicycle through Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor 2. Elephants in corridor 3. Baboons on the Selous Game Reserve 4. Signpost reading "Wildlife Corridor Selous-Niassa" 5. Pan of corridor 6. Niassa Game Reserve Director, Baldeu Chande working at his computer 7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Baldeu Chande, Niassa Game Reserve Director: "Because of a national border, the elephants and other game are not free to move between the two countries, and that's why we thought of making this international corridor to join the Selous Game Reserve and the Niassa Game Reserve." 8. Tilt down from tree to elephant in the wildlife corridor 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Benson Kibonde, Selous Game Reserve Chief Warden: "There is an interaction of the genetic material from the Niassa ecosystem and the Selous ecosystem. So, the advantage is that, I mean, they perpetuate the genetic pool of these species. Had there been no connection of this kind, then inbreeding would have been the result of it. You would have had populations maintaining their small areas of domicile, and thus, kind of limiting the shuffling of the genes from one population to another." 10. Wide of women walking with firewood 11. Giraffe walking in the Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor 12. SOUNDBITE (German) Rudolf Hahn, Technical Advisor for project "Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor: "A Wildlife Management Area is an area set up by villager's on village land for the sole purpose of conservation. In these areas, villagers carry out natural resource management. These include wildlife, forestry, fisheries, and beekeeping. As you can see in this area we have several bee hives, and the bee production is going to start here." 13. Beekeeper cleaning bee hive in Namtumbo District Wildlife Management Area 14. SOUNDBITE: (Swahili) Hezron Job, District Beekeeping Officer, Namtumbo District: "The intention of establishing beekeeping in the corridor is to boost the people's lives, to boost income of people, and also nutrition for the people. And we expect that from the production that we have now is very low, we expect to raise this up to 250 tons in the future for the whole corridor. The product will be sold here in the district, and also outside the district, and the whole country, and foreign countries also, depending on the quality we produce." 15. Settlement on the border of wildlife corridor 16. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Gabriel Kimolo, District Commissioner of Namtumbo District: "It is good to talk with the communities to convince them to be moved from where they are to another place. If they don't agree to move, we will find another way to move the people from the corridor. After discussing with them, and if the community agrees, we will send them to an alternative place where we will build schools and other infrastructure. But we can't chase them away, so the first thing we will do will be to discuss the issue with them. The people need to be moved, but not in a forced way." 17. Meat poacher walking through the bush in the Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor 18. Village wildlife game officer in Nambecha village 19. District Game Officer for Namtumbo District, Nalimi Madatta talking 20. Wildlife Management Area village game officer's (from Nambecha village), on parade 21. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Nalimi Madatta, District Game Officer, Namtumbo District: "These are the village game scouts in Nambecha village, and their function is mainly to do patrols in the wildlife management area, and also do protection against crop damage by wildlife. They have been very effective. Since they began this work, poaching has dropped a lot. You'll find that no poachers are coming into the wildlife management area." 22. Various of Wildlife Management Area village game scouts, on patrol You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/345b085fd0c8d21186c0473541f3d56b Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 23 Jul 2015
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