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  • A baby elephant in danger struggles to keep up with his mother as a human lends a helping hand. The future of elephants is in our hands.
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    Natural World: Elephants - The Long Walk Home
    Thousands upon thousands of elephants struggle through a dust-laden, apocalyptic landscape. Whirlwinds of sand a thousand feet high whip the desiccated moonscape. It is a journey that some will never complete. This is a story of vision, struggle, hope and one man's dream to bring freedom to over a hundred thousand beleaguered African elephants.
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  • @Gauss6174
    @Gauss6174 5 років тому +87

    that's just depressing, hard not to intervene when people's actions lead to the very situations these animals find themselves in

    • @zohunhassad1107
      @zohunhassad1107 5 років тому

      Hdhev my phone was me just use phone earlier when🍔🍟

  • @Fiyaaaahh
    @Fiyaaaahh 5 років тому +45

    I've never seen an elephant this emaciated.

  • @Vierotchka
    @Vierotchka 5 років тому +73

    In Kenya, solutions to this kind of barrier has been found by creating a passage for the elephants in accordance with the farmers.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 5 років тому +44

    Poor thing, it's been through so much

  • @leciramy3056
    @leciramy3056 5 років тому +65

    Poor baby 🐘. too tired and thin to endure the journey....so sad😢 to see it nearly giving up

  • @johnbarry5036
    @johnbarry5036 5 років тому +117

    i agree with him, usually nature you leave alone, but if man caused this, then I think its ok man should help. Give the poor baby some water.

    • @Raison_d-etre
      @Raison_d-etre 5 років тому +3

      Do you know how much they drink?

    • @jamesondee1216
      @jamesondee1216 4 роки тому +9

      So we are not nature? 😂 enough of this shit already. Everything on this earth is nature including human.

    • @nghtmar3gamer128
      @nghtmar3gamer128 2 роки тому +2

      @@jamesondee1216 yeah, but "humans" are destroying the planet and are overpopulating there's other magnificent creatures on this planet that we share it with that deserve to live their lives just like we do.

    • @henryc1000
      @henryc1000 2 роки тому

      @@nghtmar3gamer128 : BULLSH*T!!!

    • @fu1602
      @fu1602 Рік тому

      @@jamesondee1216 자연?!정말 자연이란 뜻을 몰라서
      얘기하는거에요?
      인간들이 환경을 오염시키고 야생의
      동물들이 살고 있는 서식지마저 뺏어서
      팜유를 만들고 지구촌은 지금
      기후위기에 놓여 있습니다.

  • @paintingtheskykingdom9005
    @paintingtheskykingdom9005 5 років тому +9

    so heartbreaking and sad. I hope that someone can go out of there way to get these elephants what they need.

  • @marksalot655
    @marksalot655 5 років тому +12

    When you think how tough your life is. Think of them. 😇

  • @mienamie4448
    @mienamie4448 5 років тому +3

    Sad😣😢😭😢😭😢😭😢Thank U for trying to HELP😇💝🐘xxx🐘💘

  • @paulmatt1960
    @paulmatt1960 2 роки тому +3

    That was almost overwhelming for me to watch. To be there and see the suffering in Person so many different times and in many different ways MUST BE SO HARD

  • @mikecaleta9757
    @mikecaleta9757 5 років тому +5

    Kenya is leading the world in conservation. I lived there for several years and KWS and the government are taking steps to help. It is the responsibility of Governments to take steps to ensure the conservation of wildlife we cannot as a species continue to ignore encroachment, poaching, and the destruction of flora and fauna. We create the problems now we have to help well done this guy.

  • @chewy8505
    @chewy8505 2 роки тому

    Wa, poor baby elephant has to go through a such hardship in its childhood.

  • @Lonewolf---
    @Lonewolf--- 5 років тому +52

    The stupidity and greed of the human animal knows no bounds!

    • @TN-mz5gw
      @TN-mz5gw 5 років тому +15

      @michael wittmann well ok but the "non whites" as stated by you may have a high population but the "whites" (as stated by you) have much greater greed and the American and European countries cause much more of deforestation and pollution than the so called non white countries and please don't make racist or non secular comments that is just rude

    • @TN-mz5gw
      @TN-mz5gw 5 років тому +3

      Lonewolf totally agreed we need to do something big for the planet

    • @EnviedShadow
      @EnviedShadow 4 роки тому +1

      I mean... The elephants probably could have just gone around lol

    • @Lonewolf---
      @Lonewolf--- 4 роки тому +1

      @@EnviedShadow ---
      What part of the following statement did you not understand?
      "These elephants are simply trying to get beyond the farm, using an age-old route deeply ingrained in their memory, which is now blocked by expanding human settlement."
      They are guided by instinct and memory, so "going around" is not a simple task for them. They do not have human intellect and functionality! DUH!

  • @shadypinesma8909
    @shadypinesma8909 5 років тому +56

    😢😢, They need to figure an overpass or tunnel into the planning of new construction, so the Ele's can get through, or build a fountain, or pool that can be filled with water, just to help them along 💔🐘🐘🐘💞😥.

    • @chowyewwah1643
      @chowyewwah1643 5 років тому

      Agree.

    • @Raison_d-etre
      @Raison_d-etre 5 років тому +1

      Pools dry up. That's why that land is so dry.

    • @chowyewwah1643
      @chowyewwah1643 5 років тому +1

      @@Raison_d-etre Very sad! Human have destroyed the nature.

    • @narekhart9862
      @narekhart9862 5 років тому +2

      Cant tell if youre trolling or just dreaming...

  • @rlvsun
    @rlvsun 5 років тому +2

    Well done sir! We have to intervene

  • @meridazenteno2094
    @meridazenteno2094 5 років тому +4

    Every documentary, film, saying "The future of nature, animals, planet is in our hands", yet when the crew sees a poor animal in imminent risk of dying, they do nothing because of the stupid rule of non-intervention. Why? If he had given water of food to the little elephant, even when we are at risk of extinction, he could have saved a life.

    • @JenelleD12
      @JenelleD12 5 років тому +1

      Mérida Zenteno That’s seriously a really excellent point. It does seem super hypocritical. They need the sad moments for entertainment value. To guilt us. But 5,000 animal documentaries later, it’s obvious guilt trips don’t work. We are all suffering from ADD thanks to technology. Nothing lasts longer than 5 minutes anymore. We watch a sad animal death, we feel upset for a few, then we watch tv or go on Twitter and forget all about it.

  • @gunclappa8983
    @gunclappa8983 5 років тому +15

    Bravo! I salute you for intervening. Most would've let the lil elephant die. I thank you again!

    • @starshot5172
      @starshot5172 5 років тому +1

      No, I don't think anyone except hunters would let that guy die, but it is still a big risk to get near a young elephant when its mother is nearby

  • @art_of_Teaching
    @art_of_Teaching 5 років тому +5

    These things are really disturbing😔

  • @joanchannel174
    @joanchannel174 5 років тому +1

    Amen amen amen for the last phrase...its in our hands

  • @staysafe1096
    @staysafe1096 5 років тому +21

    Humans are the main threat to the mother nature, im so sorry😭😭😭😭

  • @duchi882
    @duchi882 5 років тому +16

    *Quite unfortunate*
    Its like a Death March Home

    • @bluntycunty6952
      @bluntycunty6952 5 років тому

      😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴

  • @DobrinWorld
    @DobrinWorld 5 років тому

    Love you BBC Earth!

  • @carolkahn8596
    @carolkahn8596 5 років тому +1

    we take and take with no thought of the consequences. Not to animals. Not even to people.

  • @incap1ble893
    @incap1ble893 5 років тому +5

    deep

  • @Cowboy-mo4je
    @Cowboy-mo4je 5 років тому +8

    Humans destroying the plant

  • @shayt543
    @shayt543 5 років тому +5

    That is extremely sad it's unfortunate wow

  • @neiltonfariasfilho5885
    @neiltonfariasfilho5885 5 років тому +3

    Thank you BBC Earth !

  • @randomvideos4023
    @randomvideos4023 3 роки тому +2

    Heartbreaking 💔

  • @souravbanerjee6564
    @souravbanerjee6564 5 років тому +14

    I want to save animals
    That's it

  • @blaseforestcall3800
    @blaseforestcall3800 5 років тому +3

    this is so sad..

  • @chanceharrington4375
    @chanceharrington4375 5 років тому +24

    Man only think of self it's totally not fair that animals have to pay the price because humans is building every where not thinking of anything else I would them people behind bars and keep them their.

    • @theonetrueeggroll4252
      @theonetrueeggroll4252 5 років тому +2

      They can't interrupt what the animals are doing. If you truly want to learn about an animal such as behavior. You can't interrupt their life.

    • @oabuseer
      @oabuseer 5 років тому

      Are you going to put you and your family and friends behind bars too to protect the animals in your country?

  • @Enigm4475
    @Enigm4475 5 років тому +5

    Can't watch this till the end. Why can't we stop expanding ?! :(

  • @didine256
    @didine256 5 років тому +1

    Animals and humans are interdépendant, once too many animals would have been eradicated from the earth, humans will be next. Watching their death is watching ours as well

  • @miguelangelo5629
    @miguelangelo5629 5 років тому +1

    Tudo o que o SENHOR DEUS criou é perfeito esses elefantes são animais fantásticos

  • @formatcforcortex2465
    @formatcforcortex2465 5 років тому

    grandest

  • @jemmaj2919
    @jemmaj2919 5 років тому +10

    I hope he moved along 😭
    Fences shouldnt be allowed on these routes, these routes have to be protected by international law 😢

    • @valeriebronz7130
      @valeriebronz7130 5 років тому +4

      I would say in all fairness man has no way of knowing ancient trails. But.... Once they do they have responsibility to make a way for them

    • @oneeyedman99
      @oneeyedman99 Рік тому

      The people living on these routes are poor subsistence farmers who need to eat. That would be a tough sell.

  • @KassTravels22
    @KassTravels22 5 років тому +2

    Awwwww 😭😭😞

  • @ramonanetto236
    @ramonanetto236 5 років тому +1

    😓😓 Sad situations....

  • @BothHands1
    @BothHands1 5 років тому +9

    Didn't you have a water bottle on you or smthing? I think it needed water probably

    • @nopride_
      @nopride_ 5 років тому +2

      It’s pretty risk i mean the mom is gonna get angry if you get close to her baby

  • @SuperAnki11
    @SuperAnki11 5 років тому

    OMG my heart stopped when the baby elephant could not move because of tiredness :(

  • @kinowa4381
    @kinowa4381 5 років тому +1

    Good job humans. :(

  • @mamalion7684
    @mamalion7684 5 років тому +1

    People should simply not build on ancient elephant paths. Leave them safe passage. Build around them but DO NOT BLOCK THEM. I really wish people would think this way.

  • @mariadaluzmoutinho5701
    @mariadaluzmoutinho5701 5 років тому

    Quem não fica emocionado com esta atribulada corrida?? O Stress que atinge esta espécie ...porque pressentem o perigo ...mortos por chegar a casa numa corrida alucinante e as crias exaustas param ..as forças faltam ...parar é morrer!! Será que a manobra do jipe e o esforço do narrador foram suficientes para juntar a linda e extenuante cria à mãe e ao grupo?!! Espero que sim!!

  • @moein-lifestyle
    @moein-lifestyle 5 років тому

    🐘🐘🐘

  • @12on12off
    @12on12off 5 років тому

    U can do it

  • @danieldevito6380
    @danieldevito6380 3 роки тому

    Instead of making these long and dangerous journeys, why wouldn't these elephants just stay where the food and water source is?

  • @taslimchaudhry1431
    @taslimchaudhry1431 5 років тому

    Excellent Video. 🇮🇳

  • @dct4lif
    @dct4lif 5 років тому +4

    Water holes ?

    • @durjam3734
      @durjam3734 5 років тому +2

      All gone cus of desertification

  • @ashishkumar-pi3kr
    @ashishkumar-pi3kr 5 років тому +18

    Video maker please do something
    Please tell the concern govt

    • @rcookie5128
      @rcookie5128 5 років тому

      I don't think the government would really care, if they would they would already help them... :p I guess we can only count on animal help organisation..

  • @TheWarrenFamily
    @TheWarrenFamily 5 років тому +6

    Poor thing. Survival training boot camp

  • @countrygirlxo7188
    @countrygirlxo7188 3 роки тому +2

    Why don’t we just feed them? I mean if we are the cause of their struggles, why not help?

  • @necroleak
    @necroleak 5 років тому +3

    Poor thing, it's been reuploaded too much

  • @fu1602
    @fu1602 Рік тому +2

    아....불쌍한 코끼리...
    가지고 계신 물을 한모금이라도
    저 아기에게 좀 주시지..ㅠㅠ

  • @tkhankhan9795
    @tkhankhan9795 5 років тому +5

    BBC please don't let the tired baby standing get him picked up inform the Elephants Saving Organisation or Daphne Seldrick orphan age.

    • @jeffkeith637
      @jeffkeith637 5 років тому

      This incident is over 1000 km from the Sheldrick Foundation. Africa isn't just one country.

  • @razuduplicate1910
    @razuduplicate1910 5 років тому +1

    Hello World Ay country Nam ki Atho Elephant

  • @cyclenut
    @cyclenut 5 років тому +8

    I am not sure human are worth the planet they live on.

  • @rcchristian2
    @rcchristian2 5 років тому +2

    If the future of elephants are in our hands... say goodbye to this species and enjoy them while they are here.

  • @waitnotable
    @waitnotable 5 років тому

    Elephants expect noting from humans

  • @babaib3513
    @babaib3513 3 місяці тому

    There is no thank u button for donation

  • @jigztatsme
    @jigztatsme 5 років тому +5

    I wish we die .... This saddens me.... How can we just not think of anything else on earth but us..

  • @priscillawatson7049
    @priscillawatson7049 3 роки тому

    those farms "on the way: could be paid to produce food for the elephants.

  • @icya.d5938
    @icya.d5938 5 років тому +1

    This is so sad :(

  • @EderPaz
    @EderPaz 3 роки тому +2

    Exactly the humane thing to do.
    I always am on the side of nature. But these elephants are struggling directly because of human encroachment.
    So a little nudge is bending the rules. So what? Had those farms and farmers with guns not been there, all this would have been unnecessary to begin with.
    I wish these farmers could just get together with the aid of someone and build an expressway so elephants can travel through farms so they can just go on their way without having to damage crops.

  • @chriscorona1813
    @chriscorona1813 5 років тому

    Wasnt that the guy from the other video that was sugesting to "control" the elephant population?

    • @WWeRockFan1001
      @WWeRockFan1001 5 років тому +2

      Chris Corona I’m not sure about this specific situation....but you do realize population control is necessary in a lot of cases?

  • @born4win30
    @born4win30 5 років тому +3

    Struggle is a part of life so keep trying get and get them. 🙂🙂🙂

  • @kevinctba11
    @kevinctba11 5 років тому +1

    :'(

  • @OLOLAK_7777
    @OLOLAK_7777 5 років тому +1

    Sho sho the baby won't do anything why didn't u give it water b4 u sho sho the baby back to its mother. Unbelievable!

  • @jonygspot
    @jonygspot 5 років тому +1

    BBC just seems like the wrong trio of lettering for this channel lol

  • @frenchfries7615
    @frenchfries7615 5 років тому

    Call David Sheldrick Foundation!

  • @feeltheillinois
    @feeltheillinois 5 років тому

    Did he ever make it?!?!

    • @hakon5873
      @hakon5873 5 років тому +1

      feeltheillinois unfortunately he probably kept going for another while then stopped again, you could just tell that poor baby was exhausted, dehydrated and starving.

  • @kholoud910
    @kholoud910 5 років тому

    تفرجت هاد الفيديو او فكرت شحال اخصني نتاع الوقت باش نكل هاد الحم الي فهاد الفيال واو تبارك الله على نعم الله نكل حتا نشبع هممممم همم

  • @Annette-cf9uh
    @Annette-cf9uh Місяць тому

    how clever is this the elephants device a workable plan4 the matriarch2 take her family ova dangerous ground2 feed& water her herd...2much 4the matriarch.ther knowledge wisdom map imprinted in her brain passed down

  • @1Kent
    @1Kent 5 років тому

    Make elephant migration routes off limits.

  • @severusfloki5778
    @severusfloki5778 5 років тому +6

    The "non-intervention" unwritten rule is absolutely nonsense. Giving water or food to an agonizing animal isn’t the same as helping a prey out of a lion’s teeth, which would compromise the life of the lion anyways.

    • @danieldevito6380
      @danieldevito6380 3 роки тому +1

      You're wrong. Giving an animal food or water IS taking food out of another animal's mouth. Active predators aren't the only animals out in the wild looking for food. There are COUNTLESS scavengers who rely on the death, whether it be from starvation or dehydration, of other animals. The ONLY time a human should intervene, is when an animal is stuck in a trap or snare that's been laid down by other humans. People have NO BUSINESS giving a wild animal food or water. It only upsets there balance of nature.

    • @severusfloki5778
      @severusfloki5778 3 роки тому

      @@danieldevito6380 Okay I get it, thank you

  • @processinginformation
    @processinginformation 5 років тому +3

    noone:
    BBC earth: exhausted baby elephant dying for 3 minutes straight

  • @andikav4124
    @andikav4124 5 років тому

    Saad boy (;

  • @yoy58913
    @yoy58913 5 років тому +2

    Tourism in Africa is a flourishing industry that supports more than 21 million jobs, or 1 in 14 jobs, on thecontinent. No elephants no money. Perhaps, they would like warlords to take care of the land.

  • @brendaseeley3421
    @brendaseeley3421 Місяць тому

    I think it's disgusting how the people are encroaching on the animals domain. The people should go live somewhere else and give the animals back their homes their livelihood and their life. Cuz the animals get too close to the people's homes then they get shot and killed, that's not fair it was the animals home first

  • @schmim1
    @schmim1 3 роки тому

    Thus is our fault

  • @pabloavila6573
    @pabloavila6573 2 роки тому +1

    Lions needs food too🤷🏻‍♂️so don’t worry about

  • @zakaryloreto6526
    @zakaryloreto6526 5 років тому

    Why in the comments why do people want to just kill each other tor just die? That’s not going to solve the problem

  • @drh325
    @drh325 5 років тому +1

    Help them why be neutral are duty is to save them . There are no innocent bystanders... Why not understand to open their road through.. they won’t harm the crops just go through

    • @cathyskywalker77
      @cathyskywalker77 5 років тому

      @@adpirtle Elephants do not like bees, so farmers should be given hives to put near their crops so the elephants will stay away.

  • @MuhammadEgypt
    @MuhammadEgypt 5 років тому

    Enough with 'I don't interfere shit, please'. There's a difference between helping an animal out and between doing something that seriously imbalances the ecosystem.

  • @ketrix8017
    @ketrix8017 5 років тому

    V9)8

  • @Fedismom
    @Fedismom 5 років тому

    Tired of photographers recording starving animals. We’ve overrun their habitats- feed them!

  • @kumarshingham1757
    @kumarshingham1757 5 років тому +1

    If the Nature want the baby to die.... 😪

  • @pistitoth1363
    @pistitoth1363 5 років тому

    Azért osztogatjuk a lájkokat hogyan tesszük a bolygónkat lakhatatlanná, kinek jó ez? De homosapienst nem ÉRDEKLI, csak a kis Világa . Hiába írták le az őseink : Vígyázzatok mink nagyon súlyos árat fizettűnk ezért!

  • @Altamirana713
    @Altamirana713 5 років тому

    Instead of shooing the baby elephant away, give him some damn water.
    It’s not that hard. Use your SUPERIOR HUMAN brain to help.
    And since you’re regularly going out there to take pictures and videos, carry along liters and liters of water with you. A little act of kindness goes a long way.
    Do you have to be taught everything? Can’t you think of ways to help these animals on your own?
    Plus, don’t tell me this bullshit that you don’t want to interfere with wildlife. Humans HAVE ALREADY DISRUPTED their lives. All you’re going to do now is EASE THE PROBLEMS THAT HUMANS HAD CAUSED.

    • @oabuseer
      @oabuseer 5 років тому +1

      Shut up Erica

    • @jeffkeith637
      @jeffkeith637 5 років тому +2

      You're pretty passionate that someone else should take care of this problem. Where will the litres and litres of water come from?

    • @Altamirana713
      @Altamirana713 5 років тому

      Jeff Keith I think if he’s going to insert himself in the animals’ lives, he might as well go all the way.
      The baby elephant stopped moving because it was tired, so shooing it away actually exacerbated the problem.
      Imagine stopping because you wanted to rest peacefully and quietly, and someone decided to bug you constantly with noise and hand gestures.

    • @jeffkeith637
      @jeffkeith637 5 років тому +1

      @@Altamirana713 I quite agree, and shooing the baby possibly endangered the mother's life as well. He should have stayed out of the situation altogether. He's not there to resolve anything, he's there to document it so better solutions can be found.

    • @Altamirana713
      @Altamirana713 5 років тому

      Jeff Keith I plan to go to Thailand in the future, so I could volunteer at Elephant Nature Park. I’m excited! 🐘🤩

  • @lonebeagle
    @lonebeagle 3 роки тому +2

    Mankind didn't cause this or any other drought. Droughts are caused by WEATHER. One of the important things that droughts do is to weed out the weak and the vulnerable members of the herd. The only reason why that elephant calf is in trouble is that it has a weak mother and it too, has weak genes. They both probably died. That's better for the elephants.

  • @ronaldmamauag2579
    @ronaldmamauag2579 5 років тому

    They alreasy know the problem. Why doont they try to givewater to those exhausted. They just watching them. Give water atleast. Human you already know what the cost. Why dont you give help. Give them water

  • @anishkarki7825
    @anishkarki7825 5 років тому

    First

    • @icya.d5938
      @icya.d5938 5 років тому +1

      Literally no one cares lol, also you're not first lmao

    • @anishkarki7825
      @anishkarki7825 5 років тому

      @@icya.d5938 says the guy who was not here first

  • @bradcakes6974
    @bradcakes6974 5 років тому

    Could domesticating the Elephants like horses be a solution? This is a tough situation...

    • @tancreddehauteville9983
      @tancreddehauteville9983 5 років тому +3

      They have been domesticated but only for man’s sick war experiments

    • @cathyskywalker77
      @cathyskywalker77 5 років тому

      No, they need to remain wild and free, not exploited in any way.

    • @bradcakes6974
      @bradcakes6974 5 років тому

      @@cathyskywalker77 yeah, well its better than them being killed off. People will continue to expand and saving them by domestication sounds better than just...kill them off.

    • @bradcakes6974
      @bradcakes6974 5 років тому +1

      @@tancreddehauteville9983 that's rough buddy. Im spit balling for the elephants in the video. I bet they would make great tractors. They get food, the people can expand the farm. just a dream though.

  • @umaryusuf537
    @umaryusuf537 5 років тому

    Let’s face the truth Africa’s population will more than double by 2050 which means less animals elephants are going extinct it’s no longer a if but when. We can by them time but we can’t by them safety from extinction.