HARNAS – WILDLIFE RESCUE CAMP
Harnas is a large farm in southern Africa that offers shelter to abandoned wild animals. Its residents are as varied as the countryside: lions, baboons, wild dogs, cheetahs, mongooses and antelopes.
The van der Merwe family who own the farm take on volunteers from all over the world to help run their animal orphanage: the young people come to meet exotic animals and to get a taste of the ‘real’ Africa.
City slickers from London, New York and Frankfurt suddenly become volunteers to help for weeks or months, while paying for their stay. Together, they feed, monitor and study around 400 types of animals. They get in close contact with wild dogs and other predators. But they are safe, protected by characters like Frikkie, the hard-boiled Namibian cowboy who gives the kids a hard time; by Hermann, the gentle giant who has spent most of his life in the bush; and by Schalk van der Merwe, former football pro and manager of Harnas, who has an almost eerie ability to talk and walk with lions.
’Harnas – Wildlife Rescue Camp’ is the story of the animals living at Harnas and some amazing people who do all they can to help them.
Episodes
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Wildlife Rescue - Horses, Arrival of the Carers
Young Europeans and Americans arrive at Harnas, facing harsh conditions and strict supervisor Frikkie.
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Wildlife Rescue - Lions
A lion has escaped! A tame warthog was having an afternoon nap nearby and pays with its life.
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Wildlife Rescue - Leopard
Frikkie shows tourists feeding cheetahs, all rescued after being shot, injured, or kept as pets.
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Wildlife Rescue - Wild Dog, River
Blacky the wild dog takes a battering from his pack which makes him try to escape on every occasion.
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Wildlife Rescue - Crocodile
A young volunteer learns how to feed a Nile crocodile without being devoured herself.
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Wildlife Rescue - Leopard
One of the cheetahs has been kept separate from humans for month and trained to prowl on his own.
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Wildlife Rescue - Pangolin
Neighborhood workers bring Frikkie a strange African mammal: an armored pangolin.
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Wildlife Rescue - Humans, Darkness
For many volunteers, the highlight is a trip to Bushmanland, spending time under a 2,000-year-old baobab.
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Wildlife Rescue - Humans, Snakes
On their trip into Bushmanland, a cobra interrupts the volunteers while they are getting ready for the day.
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Wildlife Rescue - Lions, Squirrels
During a walk with the lions a rainstorm rages. Soon vast areas of the farm are under water.
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Wildlife Rescue - Humans, Small Animals
Cheetah Pride proves to be an excellent hunter, while Harnas' founder Marieta recalls raising baboons.
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Wildlife Rescue - Lions
Frikkie tries his hand at some dental treatment: in a lion's mouth, with a stick – and without anesthetics!
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Wildlife Rescue - Baby Animals, Lioms
Young lioness Martha and her four brothers discover their hunting instinct: they kill a warthog.
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Wildlife Rescue - Humans, Wild Dogs
Farmers tell the team at Harnas that wild dogs have been stalking and killing their cows.
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Wildlife Rescue - Dogs & Humans
An orphaned wild dog joins a pack, a leopard is moved, and the team hunts insects for bat-eared dogs.
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Wildlife Rescue - Leopard
Schalk convinces a farmer to trap a wild leopard instead of shooting it; she's expecting cubs.
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Wildlife Rescue - Horses
The 30 horses at Harnas are washed, checked for ticks, and treated for minor injuries.
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Wildlife Rescue - Leopard, Zoo
Alarm in the caracal enclosure! The offspring of a female caracal has escaped and can't be found.
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Wildlife Rescue - Mongoose
A herd of almost sixty baboons is having a meal in one of the open-air enclosures.
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Wildlife Rescue - Lions
Five lions receive medical treatment. Good news for Tom: the hand-reared wild dog is accepted by the pack.
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Wildlife Rescue - Apes, Dogs
Four small leopards are born, while the wild dog pack has managed to dig their way to the monkeys.
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Wildlife Rescue - Leopard, Wild Dog
Schalk brings a litter of wild dogs to Harnas, and for caracal Tammy a new chapter is about to start.
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Wildlife Rescue - Lizard, Leopard
A monitor lizard has made himself comfortable between 19 wild cheetahs.
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Wildlife Rescue - Leopard
One of seven cheetahs living in the enclosure near the built-up area of the farm is about to be released.
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Wildlife Rescue - Human, Jackal, Leopard
A three-legged jackal gets a collar for release. Geuters, the cheetah granddad, dies. A cheetah arrives.
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Wildlife Rescue - Lion, Leopard
Schalk and the vet carry out the lions' annual check-up, while other team members pick up two cheetahs.
Facts
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Year2011
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Length26 × 26' (ENG)
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ResolutionHD
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Film byHarald Pokieser
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Produced by