"We've gone 12 months without an elephant being shot and killed by poachers at Mana Pools National Park, which is a huge result."
For Nick Murray, a conservationist born in Pontypridd, this result has followed years of hard work.
Nick now runs a conservation project with his wife Desiree covering the Lower Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe, an area of 10,000 sq km (3,800 sq miles).
Over the past 23 years, he has seen the wildlife populations of the valley decrease rapidly. In particular, the elephant population at the Unesco World Heritage site has nearly halved in the past two decades from 20,000 to 12,000.
Nick said poaching had "hammered" the elephant population, and the drop in tourists caused by the coronavirus pandemic was expected to lead to an increase in the illegal practice. Thankfully that has been avoided.
The anti-poaching work of Bushlife Conservancy - the project Nick runs - is complex and dangerous, training armed national park rangers to protect the animals, and keeping rangers mobile via boats and jeeps to track wild animals.