The young African mother’s last moments must have been terrifying. With her tiny daughter Beatrice tied in a shawl on her back, Masiya Banda was chased across a field by a rampaging elephant which then trampled her to death, tossing the child like a rag doll on to the sun-baked ground.
Then, with a pointed question for Harry, he adds: ‘How could the grandson of your Queen Elizabeth have done this to us?’Harry marks a tranquilised elephant in 2016 as part of an initiative to move 500 elephants over 350km across Malawi.
Whatever the truth of this – the elephants were darted with tranquilisers, tethered by their hind legs and lifted by cranes on to massive trucks for their journey – the film is still up on the charity’s glossy website, helping to raise funds from British, European and American donors for its wildlife conservation work across Africa.
More than 4,000 people have been injured, some so seriously they will never work on their farms again. Warm Heart adds that the elephants have routinely walked into villages and broken into houses, sometimes demolishing them, to break open bags of maize that are stored to feed families in winter months or for sale at the market.
‘They brought 263 elephants and just dumped them in the park and the elephants started attacking people’s crops and killing them,’ he says. ‘If an African charity released 263 hyenas in the suburbs of London and 18 months later nine people had been killed by those hyenas, what do you think the reaction would be?’
Shockingly, locals have taken matters into their own hands and, in exasperation, shot the beasts invading their farms to eat crops, drink at their wells and threaten families. ‘My brother fell and broke his arm as he ran from the creature. It was such a shock, he died of a heart attack,’ he says. ‘I am sad your Prince Harry’s charity is involved in this. It is not the elephants’ fault. They don’t know where a park begins and ends. It is the charities that are doing things wrong.’
In the attack last year, Lazarous’s rib cage was cracked, his spleen shattered, his kidneys damaged and his right arm broken in three places. It took him 11 hours to reach a hospital on an ox cart driven by relatives. Sheila Phiri, 37, a married woman of the same surname in the Zambian village of Chikazingwa, says that before the elephants were moved to the park there were none in the area. ‘I had only seen one in picture books or on TV,’ she says. ‘The charities say they are protecting wild animals but they are not protecting us humans. We think they care about animals more than people. If I had a gun, it would shoot the elephants.
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