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Good afternoon and welcome to Newsround with me, Naz. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
Today is the last day of the biggest ever meeting of the world's | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
countries to talk about how to better protect wildlife, | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Jenny is in South Africa and sent us this. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
There has been a lot of attention on this big meeting | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
to protect elephants, and that's because each | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
year thousands of them are being illegally killed | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
I went to meet some of the people trying to protect them and to see | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
these incredible creatures for myself. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
This is the environment experts say they need, | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
space to roam away from humans, who can be dangerous | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
These beautiful elephants were not so easy to find. | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
I have come to the north-east of South Africa, far away | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
from the big cities and home to the famous Kruger National Park. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
We are setting off this morning for a game of hide-and-seek | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
with a safari guide and a car and we have to be very patient, | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
It is a massive area where South Africa's wild animals | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
But strangely no sign of the one creature we had come looking for. | :01:26. | :01:38. | |
We are back at the camp now and we have been out all day long | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
and we have seen loads of animals, giraffes, lions, buffalo, warthog, | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
Getting so close to incredible elephants like this is one | :01:46. | :02:02. | |
of the most important ways South Africa believes | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
It gives people a thrill and helps them really understand how | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
For me, personally, elephants play a big role in the ecosystem, | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
As they walk, with their big bodies, they clear pathways and make | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
It is a really good example where you can see elephants | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
de-barking a tree and you can see a beautiful tusk mark, | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
and how they use the tusks to take off the bark. | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
This will fall down eventually and create a whole new ecosystem | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
One of the ways people hope to stop the illegal hunting and killing | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
of elephants is to catch the people doing it, poachers. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
They are trained to snaffle out trouble and catch poachers. | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
Once they are experts these dogs will be sent out on patrol | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
to protect animals in the wild or find stolen ivory. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
The poaching problem in Africa as a whole is huge. | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
It is all over Africa and elephant populations are suffering | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
big time but the use of these working canines, | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
working dogs, the poachers know we can track them | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
and we will indicate the presence of them at night. | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Without anti-poaching efforts in Africa we will lose | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
all of our wildlife, never mind just the elephant | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
which is getting hammered now, but we will lose everything. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
Anti-poachers and rangers together hope to stop the crisis and keep | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
these awesome creatures around for generations to come. | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
Today is the last day of this big meeting here in Johannesburg. | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Everyone wants to help protect elephants but they can't always | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
One suggestion, to put all elephants in the top group | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
of protected animals, didn't happen as most | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
countries didn't think that was the right idea. | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
But one big announcement was a call for a ban on the buying | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
and selling of all ivory, not just between countries | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Countries don't have to obey that, but elephant charities are really | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
pleased this has happened, so some progress has been made | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
but getting everyone to agree on the best way to save elephants | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
and to stop poaching definitely isn't easy. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
Make sure you go online for our guide on everything | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
about elephants and to see a baby elephant. | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
So, from everyone here in Johannesburg, goodbye. | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
Thanks, Jenny. Also on the website, you can check out the other stories, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
including the latest on hurricane Matthew in the Caribbean, and more | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
on this massive dinosaur footprint found in the Gobi desert in Asia. We | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
are back at 7:40am tomorrow. See you then. Bye-bye. | :04:59. | :05:01. |