The Careful Predator Everybody knows the wildlife of Africa is doomed. After all there are too many People, and people and animals don't go together. Not so, it seems. There is now a controversial experiment going on in Zimbabwe that points in the other direction. Villagers are encouraging elephant, lion and leopard back and even allowing giraffe, eland and impala on to their grazing land - alongside, or even instead of, their cattle.
In exchange they are getting food and income from a carefully controlled hunting industry. Rather than uncontrolled poaching, the legal sale of the skins and ivory may turn out to be better for both the people and the animals.
Narrator Paul Vaughan
Film editor ROLAND ARMSTRONG Horizon editor GRAHAM MASSEY Written and produced by STEPHEN ROSE