{"id":41449,"date":"2025-12-02T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/?p=41449"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:45:23","slug":"conservation-through-african-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2025\/12\/02\/conservation-through-african-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation through African eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>In a powerful collaboration between filmmakers, conservationists and rangers, a new film from Umdloti-based Nature, Environment and Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF) has brought KZN\u2019s rhino conservation story to a global audience.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>NEWF\u2019s short film, Wild Hope: Rhino Ops, shines a light on the courageous team at Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park \u2013 Africa\u2019s oldest proclaimed game reserve \u2013 and their extraordinary efforts to protect one of the continent\u2019s most iconic species.<\/p>\n<p>Produced in partnership with Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, the film offers a raw and hopeful look at the people behind one of Africa\u2019s largest rhino horn protection operation to date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A story of hope<\/strong><br \/>\nFor NEWF co-founder and the film\u2019s executive producer Noel Kok, this story represents far more than just a film. It\u2019s a continuation of a legacy that began over a century ago. \u201cHluhluwe\u2013Imfolozi was established after a colonial hunter was believed to have shot the last remaining southern white rhino in the 1800s,\u201d he explains. \u201cPeople were so outraged that they convinced the Natal governor to declare the area a reserve in the hope that some rhinos had survived. That was the beginning of Africa\u2019s first proclaimed game reserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, in the 1950s and 60s, the late Dr Ian Player and local ranger Magqubu Ntombela led Operation Rhino, a pioneering conservation effort that helped repopulate parks across Africa \u2013 including Kruger National Park \u2013 with rhinos from Hluhluwe\u2013Imfolozi. \u201cEvery single southern white rhino alive today can trace its lineage back to that park,\u201d says Noel. \u201cIt\u2019s one of Africa\u2019s greatest conservation success stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41451\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic1-1024x554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic1-1024x554.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic1-400x216.jpg 400w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic1-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic1-776x420.jpg 776w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic1-696x376.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic1-1068x580.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic1.jpg 1331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a>Facing a new battle<\/strong><br \/>\nBut by 2008, rhino poaching had returned with devastating force. As poachers targeted softer, less-protected reserves, Hluhluwe\u2013Imfolozi once again found itself on the frontline. \u201cEzemvelo\u2019s Game Capture Unit made the heart-wrenching decision to dehorn their entire rhino population \u2013 an act of protection rather than defeat,\u201d says Noel. \u201cIt\u2019s was a painful decision, but key to the rhinos\u2019 survival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s central figure, Dumisani Zwane of Ezemvelo\u2019s game capture field operations, leads the operation with determination \u2013 a man who, as a young boy, dreamed of working in game capture. His story, Noel explains, embodies the human heart of conservation. \u201cDumi represents the communities that live around these reserves. They are our last line of defence. When local people see someone like him leading such a massive operation, they realise \u2013 this is our heritage, our responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41452\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic2-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic2-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic2-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic2-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Conservation_Pic2.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Shifting the lens<\/strong><br \/>\nThat sense of ownership and pride lies at the core of NEWF\u2019s mission. Since 2017, the organisation has grown into a powerful network of over 350 African conservationists and filmmakers across 35 countries. Through labs, workshops and mentorship, NEWF equips young storytellers \u2013 many of them women \u2013 to share science and conservation stories through an African lens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor so long, our continent\u2019s conservation stories were told by outsiders,\u201d Noel says. \u201cWe were cast as poachers, rangers, or the people who sing for tourists. But we are so much more than that \u2013 we\u2019re scientists, filmmakers, divers and storytellers. We are redefining what it means to be protectors of nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stories of optimism<\/strong><br \/>\nWild Hope: Rhino Ops is part of the award-winning Wild Hope series, inspired by Cambridge professor Andrew Balmford\u2019s book, which focuses on stories of optimism in conservation. \u201cSo often, conservation is portrayed through doom and gloom,\u201d Noel says. \u201cBut hopelessness doesn\u2019t inspire action. When people see stories of courage and collaboration, they believe that change is possible \u2013 and that\u2019s where hope begins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That spirit of hope runs through all NEWF\u2019s work \u2013 from its Storytelling Research and Dive Centre in Sodwana Bay, the training site for the largest ocean access programme for African scientists, conservationists and storytellers, to their upcoming feature film Indoni Yamanzi (Black Beauty of the Ocean), which tells the inspiring true story of the first black woman to dive in Sodwana Bay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about representation, empowerment and reconnecting people with nature,\u201d says Noel. \u201cEvery project we do \u2013 whether it\u2019s about rhinos, oceans or communities \u2013 reminds us that conservation isn\u2019t someone else\u2019s story. It\u2019s ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Details:<\/strong> <strong>Wild Hope:<\/strong> Rhino Ops is streaming now on PBS Nature\u2019s YouTube Channel and Wild Hope TV. <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newf.co.za\/\">www.newf.co.za<\/a>; <strong>IG:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newfcommunity\/?hl=en\">@newfcommunity<\/a>; <strong>FB:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NEWFcommUNITY\/\">NEWFcommUNITY<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Photographs:<\/strong> HHMI Tangled Bank Studios<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a powerful collaboration between filmmakers, conservationists and rangers, a new film from Umdloti-based Nature, Environment and Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF) has brought KZN\u2019s rhino conservation story to a global audience. 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