"The land of shining water": this is how the Guarani Indians have named Los esteros del Ibera, a vast network of prairies and lagoons that one were populated by jaguars, tapirs and anteaters. But during the last century, hunting and intensive farming almost decimated its wildlife.

Today, restoring its natural balance is a difficult goal to acheive... because in Argentina, removing wild animals from their habitat is forbidden.

The scientists can only rely on animals bred in captivity… On parrots raised in cages, incapable of flying… on giant anteaters that have never seen termite mound or jaguars that have never met other big cats...

In Mozambique, Zinave National Park has been ravaged by years of civil war and intensive poaching.

Today, the authorities and the Peace Parks Foundation have decided to conduct the largest wildlife reintroduction program, to bring it back to its former glory. To this end, teams of veterinarians, keepers and rangers will capture and translocate several thousands of animals.

First step: reintroducing the unbeatable forest destroyer: the elephant, to prepare the ground for other species.

And the task is simply colossal...

Several decades of intensive cattle farming and trophy hunting have destroyed these South-African lands, wiping out the wildlife.

Today, thanks to an important ecosystem restoring program, the situation has changed in this arid region of the Kalahari. Fences have been taken down, elands, zebras and other larger herbivores have been slowly reintroduced.
The last milestone is to re-establish predators, such as the lion and the African wild dog.

In Tswana language, Tswalu means “new start”.....