WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.509 --> 00:00:10.802 IVAN CARTER: ACROSS THE 2 00:00:10.802 --> 00:00:12.595 CONTINENT OF AFRICA, THEY ONCE 3 00:00:12.595 --> 00:00:14.556 ROAMED IN GREAT NUMBERS, AN 4 00:00:14.556 --> 00:00:15.974 ANIMAL WHOSE IDENTITY WAS ITS 5 00:00:15.974 --> 00:00:17.726 HORN. BUT AS STRONGLY AS THIS 6 00:00:17.726 --> 00:00:20.061 IS ITS IDENTITY, IT HAS ALSO 7 00:00:20.061 --> 00:00:22.147 BEEN ITS DOWNFALL. 8 00:00:24.149 --> 00:00:27.235 [MUSIC] 9 00:00:31.990 --> 00:00:33.575 WHEN PEOPLE AND ANIMALS 10 00:00:33.575 --> 00:00:35.452 COLLIDE, THINGS ARE NEVER 11 00:00:35.452 --> 00:00:37.120 SIMPLE. 12 00:00:40.290 --> 00:00:42.709 IN THIS WILDLIFE/HUMAN CONFLICT, 13 00:00:42.709 --> 00:00:44.002 I'M OFTEN CALLED IN 14 00:00:44.002 --> 00:00:45.837 TO SEEK OUT THE TRUTH, TO FIND 15 00:00:45.837 --> 00:00:47.505 OUT WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING ON 16 00:00:47.505 --> 00:00:49.132 THE FRONT LINE. 17 00:00:54.846 --> 00:00:57.807 MY NAME IS IVAN CARTER--HUNTER, 18 00:00:57.807 --> 00:01:00.060 CONSERVATIONIST, AND WILDLIFE 19 00:01:00.060 --> 00:01:02.729 INVESTIGATOR. 20 00:01:10.361 --> 00:01:12.447 I'M IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE 21 00:01:12.447 --> 00:01:13.865 COUNTRY WITH THE LARGEST 22 00:01:13.865 --> 00:01:15.075 REMAINING RHINO POPULATION ON 23 00:01:15.075 --> 00:01:17.118 THE PLANET. SADLY, THESE 24 00:01:17.118 --> 00:01:19.621 NUMBERS ARE RAPIDLY DECLINING. 25 00:01:19.621 --> 00:01:20.955 APPROXIMATELY EVERY EIGHT 26 00:01:20.955 --> 00:01:22.207 HOURS A RHINO IS POACHED 27 00:01:22.207 --> 00:01:25.668 FOR ITS HORNS. 28 00:01:25.668 --> 00:01:27.962 THE HORNS ARE SHIPPED OVERSEAS 29 00:01:27.962 --> 00:01:29.506 TO THE ASIAN MARKET, WHERE, 30 00:01:29.506 --> 00:01:30.632 DESPITE THERE BEING NO 31 00:01:30.632 --> 00:01:32.342 SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, THEY'RE 32 00:01:32.342 --> 00:01:33.718 SOLD FOR THEIR ALLEGED HEALING 33 00:01:33.718 --> 00:01:37.889 AND APHRODISIAC PROPERTIES. 34 00:01:37.889 --> 00:01:39.349 THESE BELIEFS ARE THE 35 00:01:39.349 --> 00:01:40.809 FOUNDATION FROM WHICH THE WILD 36 00:01:40.809 --> 00:01:42.727 RHINO'S IMPENDING EXTINCTION IS 37 00:01:42.727 --> 00:01:45.230 SAID TO OCCUR, SOME SAY IN 38 00:01:45.230 --> 00:01:47.857 LESS THAN 10 YEARS. 39 00:01:47.857 --> 00:01:50.068 FORTUNATELY THERE EXIST 40 00:01:50.068 --> 00:01:51.611 DETERMINED INDIVIDUALS WHO MAKE 41 00:01:51.611 --> 00:01:52.904 IT THEIR LIFE'S WORK TO ENSURE 42 00:01:52.904 --> 00:01:54.906 THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN. 43 00:01:54.906 --> 00:01:56.616 I'M STEPPING ONTO THE FRONT LINE 44 00:01:56.616 --> 00:01:58.159 WHERE I'LL MEET THE BRAVE 45 00:01:58.159 --> 00:01:59.327 CONSERVATIONISTS AND RANGERS 46 00:01:59.327 --> 00:02:01.454 WHO FIGHT THIS WAR EVERY DAY. 47 00:02:01.454 --> 00:02:02.705 I WANT TO LEARN WHAT'S BEING 48 00:02:02.705 --> 00:02:04.666 DONE AND DETERMINE IF THIS 49 00:02:04.666 --> 00:02:10.046 RHINO WAR HAS ANY SOLUTION. 50 00:02:10.046 --> 00:02:12.632 WHAT BETTER PLACE TO START THAN 51 00:02:12.632 --> 00:02:14.425 THE ZULU LAND RHINO RESERVE, 52 00:02:14.425 --> 00:02:16.219 WHERE WILDLIFE VETERINARIANS 53 00:02:16.219 --> 00:02:18.263 OPERATE ON THE FRONT LINES. 54 00:02:18.263 --> 00:02:19.681 THESE ARE THE GOOD GUYS, AND 55 00:02:19.681 --> 00:02:20.765 THEY'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A 56 00:02:20.765 --> 00:02:22.392 RHINO DARTING OPERATION. 57 00:02:27.230 --> 00:02:28.857 WELL, WE'RE JUST COMING OUT 58 00:02:28.857 --> 00:02:30.191 HERE TO WHERE THE GAME SCOUTS 59 00:02:30.191 --> 00:02:31.860 HAVE BEEN WATCHING A RHINO, A 60 00:02:31.860 --> 00:02:32.819 RHINO THAT'S DESTINED TO BE 61 00:02:32.819 --> 00:02:34.487 DARTED THIS AFTERNOON. IT'S 62 00:02:34.487 --> 00:02:36.197 PART OF A RESEARCH PROGRAM 63 00:02:36.197 --> 00:02:37.740 HERE WHICH IS REALLY ABOUT 64 00:02:37.740 --> 00:02:38.700 MAPPING AND PLOTTING THE 65 00:02:38.700 --> 00:02:41.369 GENETICS OF THE RHINO. 66 00:02:41.369 --> 00:02:43.538 THIS PROGRAM IS VITAL TO COMBAT 67 00:02:43.538 --> 00:02:45.206 POACHING IN THE AREA. BIOPSY 68 00:02:45.206 --> 00:02:46.624 SAMPLES WILL BE COLLECTED FOR 69 00:02:46.624 --> 00:02:48.835 THE COUNTRY'S DNA DATABASE, 70 00:02:48.835 --> 00:02:50.378 AND THEY'LL ALSO INSERT A 71 00:02:50.378 --> 00:02:52.130 MICROCHIP INTO THE HORN. 72 00:02:52.130 --> 00:02:53.673 SHOULD A POACHER GAIN 73 00:02:53.673 --> 00:02:54.716 POSSESSION OF THE HORNS AND 74 00:02:54.716 --> 00:02:56.342 SHOULD THEY BE LOCATED, WE'LL 75 00:02:56.342 --> 00:02:57.468 KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE HORN 76 00:02:57.468 --> 00:02:59.888 ORIGINATED FROM. 77 00:02:59.888 --> 00:03:01.264 MIKE TOFT, THE CONTRACTED 78 00:03:01.264 --> 00:03:02.974 VETERINARIAN, SPECIALIZES IN 79 00:03:02.974 --> 00:03:05.518 IMMOBILIZING LARGE ANIMALS. 80 00:03:05.518 --> 00:03:06.603 MIKE WILL BE WORKING ALONGSIDE 81 00:03:06.603 --> 00:03:08.188 KAREN HOLMES, WHO IS THE GENERAL 82 00:03:08.188 --> 00:03:12.275 MANAGER OF THE RESERVE. 83 00:03:12.275 --> 00:03:13.735 HE'LL BE USING AN AIR-POWERED 84 00:03:13.735 --> 00:03:14.861 RIFLE THAT FIRES A DART TO 85 00:03:14.861 --> 00:03:17.155 ADMINISTER A NON-LETHAL DOSE OF 86 00:03:17.155 --> 00:03:18.323 THE POWERFUL TRANQUILIZER KNOWN 87 00:03:18.323 --> 00:03:21.743 AS M99, A THOUSAND TIMES MORE 88 00:03:21.743 --> 00:03:23.745 POWERFUL THAN MORPHINE. JUST 89 00:03:23.745 --> 00:03:25.079 THE TINIEST DROP OF THIS DRUG 90 00:03:25.079 --> 00:03:26.289 WOULD KILL A HUMAN IN A 91 00:03:26.289 --> 00:03:28.333 MATTER OF SECONDS. 92 00:03:28.333 --> 00:03:29.459 AND SO YOU'LL LOOK AT THE 93 00:03:29.459 --> 00:03:30.335 RHINO FIRST. 94 00:03:30.335 --> 00:03:31.419 MIKE TOFT: WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 95 00:03:31.419 --> 00:03:32.670 A LOOK AT IT--AGE, CONDITION, 96 00:03:32.670 --> 00:03:33.588 SIZE. 97 00:03:33.588 --> 00:03:34.589 IVAN: SO WHAT TAKES MORE DRUG? 98 00:03:34.589 --> 00:03:36.132 MIKE: BIGGER BULLS, 99 00:03:36.132 --> 00:03:37.091 OLDER ANIMALS. 100 00:03:37.091 --> 00:03:38.176 IVAN: OLD, EH? 101 00:03:38.176 --> 00:03:39.260 MIKE: UP TO A POINT. 102 00:03:39.260 --> 00:03:40.261 IVAN: YEAH, YEAH. 103 00:03:40.261 --> 00:03:41.512 MIKE: FOR EACH YEAR WE VIRTUALLY 104 00:03:41.512 --> 00:03:43.014 ADD ANOTHER GRAM OF M99. 105 00:03:43.014 --> 00:03:43.765 AND THEN FROM THERE YOU 106 00:03:43.765 --> 00:03:45.391 START TO FINE TUNE IT. 107 00:03:45.391 --> 00:03:46.434 WE DON'T GO HIGHER THAN FIVE. 108 00:03:46.434 --> 00:03:47.685 IVAN: YEAH. MIKE'S ACTUALLY 109 00:03:47.685 --> 00:03:48.686 GOING TO PREPARE THE DART WHILE 110 00:03:48.686 --> 00:03:50.188 THEY'RE FLYING SO THAT HE CAN BE 111 00:03:50.188 --> 00:03:51.231 ABSOLUTELY SURE, HAVING PUT HIS 112 00:03:51.231 --> 00:03:52.273 OWN EYES ON IT. IT'S SUCH A 113 00:03:52.273 --> 00:03:53.358 VALUABLE ANIMAL, YOU WANT TO BE 114 00:03:53.358 --> 00:03:54.525 TOTALLY SURE OF THAT. AND WITHIN 115 00:03:54.525 --> 00:03:55.693 THE NEXT FEW MINUTES 116 00:03:55.693 --> 00:03:57.195 THE CHOPPER WILL GO AIRBORNE, 117 00:03:57.195 --> 00:03:58.404 HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET A DART INTO 118 00:03:58.404 --> 00:03:59.489 THIS RHINO AND THINGS WILL 119 00:03:59.489 --> 00:04:01.991 START TO HAPPEN. 120 00:04:01.991 --> 00:04:03.618 THERE'S A LOT THAT CAN GO 121 00:04:03.618 --> 00:04:05.245 WRONG. THE DRUG AND THE DART 122 00:04:05.245 --> 00:04:06.955 WILL BE LOADED BY HAND IN THE 123 00:04:06.955 --> 00:04:08.414 MOVING HELICOPTER, WITH A DOSE 124 00:04:08.414 --> 00:04:09.707 STRONG ENOUGH TO KILL A HUMAN 125 00:04:09.707 --> 00:04:13.086 IN SECONDS. IT'S IMPERATIVE 126 00:04:13.086 --> 00:04:14.045 THAT MIKE IS STEADY IN THE 127 00:04:14.045 --> 00:04:17.131 TURBULENT ENVIRONMENT. 128 00:04:17.131 --> 00:04:20.760 THERE'S NO MARGIN FOR ERROR. 129 00:04:26.766 --> 00:04:28.893 WE HAVE TO RUSH. THIS RHINO IS 130 00:04:28.893 --> 00:04:30.812 JUST OVER THE RIDGE HERE. 131 00:04:30.812 --> 00:04:32.188 WE'VE GOT TO GET AS CLOSE AS WE 132 00:04:32.188 --> 00:04:33.439 CAN BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY FIRE 133 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:34.816 THE DART, JUST BECAUSE YOU 134 00:04:34.816 --> 00:04:36.150 DON'T KNOW HOW FAR THAT RHINO 135 00:04:36.150 --> 00:04:37.402 IS GOING TO RUN. WE'VE GOT THE 136 00:04:37.402 --> 00:04:38.778 WILDLIFE MANAGER OF THE RANCH 137 00:04:38.778 --> 00:04:39.988 IN FRONT OF US. WE HAVE GOT 138 00:04:39.988 --> 00:04:41.447 THE VETERINARY VEHICLE BEHIND 139 00:04:41.447 --> 00:04:42.991 US. WE COULD BE IN FOR A 140 00:04:42.991 --> 00:04:44.909 PRETTY WILD RIDE. 141 00:04:50.415 --> 00:04:52.208 IVAN: I AM IVAN CARTER-- 142 00:04:52.208 --> 00:04:53.751 HUNTER, CONSERVATIONIST, AND 143 00:04:53.751 --> 00:04:55.586 WILDLIFE INVESTIGATOR. I'VE 144 00:04:55.586 --> 00:04:57.005 TRAVELED TO THE ZULU LAND RHINO 145 00:04:57.005 --> 00:04:59.966 RESERVE HERE IN SOUTH AFRICA. 146 00:04:59.966 --> 00:05:01.134 I'M ON A MISSION TO HELP FIGHT 147 00:05:01.134 --> 00:05:02.468 A DEADLY WAR AND TO WITNESS 148 00:05:02.468 --> 00:05:04.762 FIRST-HAND THE REALITY OF THE 149 00:05:04.762 --> 00:05:08.391 RHINO'S PENDING EXTINCTION. 150 00:05:08.391 --> 00:05:10.184 I'M IN THE MIDST OF AN 151 00:05:10.184 --> 00:05:11.477 OPERATION, FOLLOWING BEHIND 152 00:05:11.477 --> 00:05:12.854 THE CHOPPER AS WE ATTEMPT TO 153 00:05:12.854 --> 00:05:15.064 DART A RHINO. 154 00:05:15.064 --> 00:05:17.734 PILOT: IT'S A NICE OPEN AREA. 155 00:05:17.734 --> 00:05:18.943 IVAN: THE VET LOOKS DOWN THE 156 00:05:18.943 --> 00:05:20.611 BARREL OF HIS DART GUN AND THE 157 00:05:20.611 --> 00:05:22.196 PILOT RELAYS THE SITUATION TO 158 00:05:22.196 --> 00:05:24.699 US, THE GROUND TEAM. THEY'VE 159 00:05:24.699 --> 00:05:26.492 IDENTIFIED THE RHINO THAT NEEDS 160 00:05:26.492 --> 00:05:28.161 TO BE DARTED. THE DART, WHICH 161 00:05:28.161 --> 00:05:29.704 IS SEVERAL INCHES LONG, MUST 162 00:05:29.704 --> 00:05:31.497 DELIVER THE DRUG INTO THE 163 00:05:31.497 --> 00:05:33.458 MUSCLE. NOT AN EASY TASK ON A 164 00:05:33.458 --> 00:05:36.252 TARGET WITH 3-INCH-THICK SKIN. 165 00:05:36.252 --> 00:05:38.296 MIKE LOADS THE DANGEROUS LIQUID 166 00:05:38.296 --> 00:05:41.758 INTO THE CO2-POWERED DART. NOW 167 00:05:41.758 --> 00:05:44.093 HE MUST MAKE AN ACCURATE SHOT 168 00:05:44.093 --> 00:05:45.595 DESPITE THE TURBULENCE, THE 169 00:05:45.595 --> 00:05:47.513 DOWNDRAFT FROM THE ROTORS, 170 00:05:47.513 --> 00:05:48.598 THE MOVING HELICOPTER, 171 00:05:48.598 --> 00:05:51.351 AND THE RUNNING ANIMAL. 172 00:05:51.351 --> 00:05:53.978 PILOT: ALL RIGHT, DO IT. 173 00:05:58.608 --> 00:06:01.611 IVAN: THE DART GOES IN. 174 00:06:01.611 --> 00:06:03.571 YOU CAN SEE THE RHINOS RIGHT 175 00:06:03.571 --> 00:06:05.031 BELOW THE HELICOPTER. THE DART 176 00:06:05.031 --> 00:06:06.532 IS ACTUALLY IN. THE HELICOPTER 177 00:06:06.532 --> 00:06:07.867 IS STAYING ENOUGH DISTANCE THAT 178 00:06:07.867 --> 00:06:10.119 THE RHINO AREN'T SPOOKED BY IT. 179 00:06:10.119 --> 00:06:11.621 THE ONE WITH THE DART IN HIM IS 180 00:06:11.621 --> 00:06:13.039 THE ONE AT THE BACK. HE'S 181 00:06:13.039 --> 00:06:14.207 STARTING TO DROP HIS TAIL. HIS 182 00:06:14.207 --> 00:06:15.833 HEAD IS DROPPING DOWN. YOU CAN 183 00:06:15.833 --> 00:06:18.169 SEE HIS TAIL IS JUST LIMP. 184 00:06:18.169 --> 00:06:20.546 WHEREAS THE ONE IN THE FRONT, 185 00:06:20.546 --> 00:06:21.672 HIS TAIL IS CURLED UP OVER HIS 186 00:06:21.672 --> 00:06:23.257 BACK. THAT SHOWS THAT THE DRUG 187 00:06:23.257 --> 00:06:26.052 IS STARTING TO TAKE EFFECT. 188 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:31.140 WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW IS THE 189 00:06:31.140 --> 00:06:32.392 HELICOPTER IS JUST GETTING IN 190 00:06:32.392 --> 00:06:34.310 FRONT OF THEM TO TRY AND KEEP 191 00:06:34.310 --> 00:06:35.603 THEM IN THIS OPEN SO WE'VE GOT 192 00:06:35.603 --> 00:06:36.813 EASY ACCESS TO THEM FOR THE 193 00:06:36.813 --> 00:06:37.855 VETS AND THE VEHICLES TO GET TO 194 00:06:37.855 --> 00:06:39.482 THEM AND WORK ON THEM. 195 00:06:39.482 --> 00:06:40.400 THE LAST THING YOU WANT IS FOR 196 00:06:40.400 --> 00:06:41.734 THEM TO GET DOWN IN A GULLY OR 197 00:06:41.734 --> 00:06:44.070 TO GET INTO SOME THICK BUSH. 198 00:06:44.070 --> 00:06:46.739 THE BULL IS READY TO GO DOWN. 199 00:06:46.739 --> 00:06:47.990 YOU CAN SEE HOW HE'S HIGH- 200 00:06:47.990 --> 00:06:50.076 STEPPING THOSE FRONT FEET. BUT 201 00:06:50.076 --> 00:06:51.369 THE YOUNG FEMALE THAT HE'S WITH 202 00:06:51.369 --> 00:06:53.162 IS NOT WANTING TO LEAVE. AND 203 00:06:53.162 --> 00:06:54.664 OBVIOUSLY THERE'S SIGNIFICANT 204 00:06:54.664 --> 00:06:55.998 COMPLICATIONS IF SHE'S STANDING 205 00:06:55.998 --> 00:06:57.083 RIGHT NEXT TO HIM WHILE WE'RE 206 00:06:57.083 --> 00:06:59.377 WORKING ON HIM. 207 00:07:01.838 --> 00:07:03.589 THE BULL HAS GONE TO SLEEP 208 00:07:03.589 --> 00:07:04.674 RIGHT ON THE ROAD. THE PROBLEM 209 00:07:04.674 --> 00:07:05.758 IS THERE'S A YOUNG FEMALE THAT 210 00:07:05.758 --> 00:07:07.093 WON'T LEAVE HIM ALONE. AN 211 00:07:07.093 --> 00:07:08.469 ANIMAL THAT SIZE CAN CREATE 212 00:07:08.469 --> 00:07:10.012 SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO A HUMAN. 213 00:07:10.012 --> 00:07:12.181 WE'RE GOING TO NEED THE CHOPPER 214 00:07:12.181 --> 00:07:13.641 TO CHASE HER AWAY. IF WE 215 00:07:13.641 --> 00:07:15.184 APPROACH THE BULL, SHE'LL 216 00:07:15.184 --> 00:07:16.686 MOST LIKELY CHARGE US, 217 00:07:16.686 --> 00:07:18.187 WITH DEADLY CONSEQUENCES. 218 00:07:18.187 --> 00:07:19.564 THE CLOCK IS TICKING, THE DRUG 219 00:07:19.564 --> 00:07:21.399 FLOWING THROUGH HIS VEINS. WE 220 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:22.692 ONLY HAVE 15 MINUTES, AND 221 00:07:22.692 --> 00:07:24.193 WE'RE WASTING PRECIOUS TIME 222 00:07:24.193 --> 00:07:25.736 TRYING TO GET THIS FEMALE 223 00:07:25.736 --> 00:07:29.490 AWAY FROM HER MATE. 224 00:07:29.490 --> 00:07:30.408 WE'VE GOT TO JUST MAKE SURE 225 00:07:30.408 --> 00:07:31.534 NOTHING HAPPENS TO EITHER ONE 226 00:07:31.534 --> 00:07:32.785 OF THESE RHINOS. THE LAST 227 00:07:32.785 --> 00:07:33.870 THING YOU WANT IS FOR HER TO 228 00:07:33.870 --> 00:07:35.538 RAM THE CAR OR TO GET INJURED 229 00:07:35.538 --> 00:07:36.789 IN ANY WAY. 230 00:07:36.789 --> 00:07:38.624 [MUSIC] 231 00:07:49.051 --> 00:07:51.137 THE CHOPPER SUCCEEDS IN PUSHING 232 00:07:51.137 --> 00:07:52.555 THE FEMALE AWAY, BUT THE TEAM 233 00:07:52.555 --> 00:07:53.848 MUST ACT FAST. SHE COULD 234 00:07:53.848 --> 00:07:55.641 RETURN AT ANY MOMENT. 235 00:07:55.641 --> 00:07:57.268 THE VET'S APPROACHING THE BULL 236 00:07:57.268 --> 00:07:58.144 FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE FIRST 237 00:07:58.144 --> 00:07:59.437 THING THEY'RE GOING TO DO IS 238 00:07:59.437 --> 00:08:00.605 PUT A CLOTH OVER HIS EYES. ONE 239 00:08:00.605 --> 00:08:02.482 OF THE EFFECTS OF THE DRUG IS 240 00:08:02.482 --> 00:08:04.525 TO DILATE THE PUPILS OF THE 241 00:08:04.525 --> 00:08:05.818 EYE. SO YOU CAN HAVE EYE 242 00:08:05.818 --> 00:08:07.195 DAMAGE IF THAT PUPIL IS 243 00:08:07.195 --> 00:08:09.030 JUST STARING AT THE SKY 244 00:08:09.030 --> 00:08:10.740 FULLY DILATED. 245 00:08:10.740 --> 00:08:12.033 WE CAN SEE THE SPEED THAT 246 00:08:12.033 --> 00:08:13.493 EVERYBODY IS WORKING AT. THE 247 00:08:13.493 --> 00:08:14.535 TIME LIMIT IS ABSOLUTELY 248 00:08:14.535 --> 00:08:16.204 CRUCIAL. WE'VE ONLY GOT 249 00:08:16.204 --> 00:08:17.580 15 MINUTES FOR THEM TO DO 250 00:08:17.580 --> 00:08:19.707 ALL OF THEIR WORK. 251 00:08:26.631 --> 00:08:28.382 IVAN: I AM IVAN CARTER. I'M 252 00:08:28.382 --> 00:08:30.343 IN THE ZULU LAND RHINO RESERVE 253 00:08:30.343 --> 00:08:31.928 TO SEE FIRST-HAND WHAT'S BEING 254 00:08:31.928 --> 00:08:33.221 DONE TO PREVENT THE RHINOS' 255 00:08:33.221 --> 00:08:35.097 IMPENDING EXTINCTION, AND MORE 256 00:08:35.097 --> 00:08:36.682 IMPORTANTLY, TO DETERMINE 257 00:08:36.682 --> 00:08:39.018 IF THERE'S A SOLUTION. 258 00:08:39.018 --> 00:08:40.978 WE'VE JUST DARTED A MALE RHINO. 259 00:08:40.978 --> 00:08:42.104 THE DRUG IS FLOWING THROUGH HIS 260 00:08:42.104 --> 00:08:43.898 VEINS, AND WE ONLY HAVE 15 261 00:08:43.898 --> 00:08:44.815 MINUTES BEFORE WE NEED TO 262 00:08:44.815 --> 00:08:45.900 ADMINISTER THE ANTIDOTE 263 00:08:45.900 --> 00:08:48.694 TO WAKE HIM UP. 264 00:08:48.694 --> 00:08:50.029 THEY'RE PUTTING SOCKS IN THE 265 00:08:50.029 --> 00:08:51.030 RHINO'S EARS. THAT'S JUST TO 266 00:08:51.030 --> 00:08:52.323 MINIMIZE THE STRESS OF ALL OF 267 00:08:52.323 --> 00:08:54.033 THESE SOUNDS. NOW WHAT WE'RE 268 00:08:54.033 --> 00:08:57.745 GOING TO DO IS PUSH HIM OVER. 269 00:08:57.745 --> 00:08:59.497 WE MUST PUSH THE RHINO ONTO HIS 270 00:08:59.497 --> 00:09:01.499 SIDE. EVEN THOUGH BEING ON HIS 271 00:09:01.499 --> 00:09:02.875 STERNUM IS BETTER FOR HIS 272 00:09:02.875 --> 00:09:04.794 RESPIRATORY TRACT, BLOOD SUPPLY 273 00:09:04.794 --> 00:09:07.046 MAY BE CUT TO THE EXTREMITIES, 274 00:09:07.046 --> 00:09:08.005 MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO STAND 275 00:09:08.005 --> 00:09:09.966 THE RHINO UP AGAIN. THAT 276 00:09:09.966 --> 00:09:11.384 LITTLE COW IS STILL WANTING 277 00:09:11.384 --> 00:09:12.885 TO COME BACK. IT'S REALLY 278 00:09:12.885 --> 00:09:14.011 IMPORTANT THAT SHE'S KEPT OUT 279 00:09:14.011 --> 00:09:15.555 OF THE WAY, FOR THE GOOD OF HER 280 00:09:15.555 --> 00:09:17.390 AND THE GOOD OF US. NOW WHAT'S 281 00:09:17.390 --> 00:09:18.683 HAPPENING IS DILLAN IS POURING 282 00:09:18.683 --> 00:09:19.892 WATER OVER HIM. THEY'VE GOT A 283 00:09:19.892 --> 00:09:21.435 PROPENSITY TO OVERHEAT DURING 284 00:09:21.435 --> 00:09:22.687 THIS KIND OF SCENARIO. AND SO 285 00:09:22.687 --> 00:09:24.605 MAKING SURE THAT HE STAYS COOL 286 00:09:24.605 --> 00:09:26.399 AND WET IS ABSOLUTELY 287 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:28.442 CRUCIAL TO HIS WELL-BEING. 288 00:09:28.442 --> 00:09:29.652 KAREN IS DOING THE 289 00:09:29.652 --> 00:09:31.153 MEASUREMENTS. SHE'S MEASURING 290 00:09:31.153 --> 00:09:32.530 THE WIDTH OF HIS LIP. 291 00:09:32.530 --> 00:09:33.614 EVERYBODY IS EXTREMELY FOCUSED 292 00:09:33.614 --> 00:09:35.408 AT THIS POINT. FIRST, THEY TAKE 293 00:09:35.408 --> 00:09:37.034 BIOPSY SAMPLES. THIS HELPS 294 00:09:37.034 --> 00:09:38.869 BUILD THE COUNTRY'S GENETIC 295 00:09:38.869 --> 00:09:40.871 DATABASE AS THESE RHINO ARE 296 00:09:40.871 --> 00:09:43.249 MOVED AND AS THEY ARE BRED. 297 00:09:43.249 --> 00:09:45.209 BLOOD IS DRAWN, FROM WHICH THE 298 00:09:45.209 --> 00:09:46.752 DNA WILL BE COLLECTED. AND A 299 00:09:46.752 --> 00:09:48.296 LITTLE BIT OF THE ANTIDOTE IS 300 00:09:48.296 --> 00:09:49.755 GIVEN JUST TO KEEP THE RHINO IN 301 00:09:49.755 --> 00:09:51.549 A SLIGHTLY LESS DEPTH OF 302 00:09:51.549 --> 00:09:53.301 ANESTHESIA. FINALLY, AND MOST 303 00:09:53.301 --> 00:09:54.927 IMPORTANTLY, WE INSERT 304 00:09:54.927 --> 00:09:56.554 MICROCHIPS INTO THE HORNS AND 305 00:09:56.554 --> 00:09:58.764 INTO THE SKIN BEHIND THE EAR. 306 00:09:58.764 --> 00:10:00.182 MOST OF THE INFORMATION 307 00:10:00.182 --> 00:10:01.392 GATHERED HERE WILL BE USED 308 00:10:01.392 --> 00:10:03.894 INDIRECTLY TO COMBAT POACHING. 309 00:10:03.894 --> 00:10:04.937 IT MAY NOT BE HARDER FOR 310 00:10:04.937 --> 00:10:06.397 POACHERS TO KILL THIS RHINO, 311 00:10:06.397 --> 00:10:07.690 BUT IF THIS RHINO IS POACHED 312 00:10:07.690 --> 00:10:09.400 AND IF THE HORNS ARE EVER 313 00:10:09.400 --> 00:10:10.568 LOCATED ON THEIR JOURNEY EAST, 314 00:10:10.568 --> 00:10:11.652 IT WILL BE EASY FOR THE 315 00:10:11.652 --> 00:10:12.903 AUTHORITIES TO IDENTIFY 316 00:10:12.903 --> 00:10:14.572 WHERE THEY CAME FROM. 317 00:10:14.572 --> 00:10:16.490 SO RIGHT INSIDE THIS NEEDLE IS 318 00:10:16.490 --> 00:10:17.950 THE MICROCHIP THAT'S GOING TO 319 00:10:17.950 --> 00:10:19.327 GO INTO THIS HORN AND THEN 320 00:10:19.327 --> 00:10:20.745 INTO THE BACK HORN AND 321 00:10:20.745 --> 00:10:25.499 THEN UNDER THE NECK. 322 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:30.338 AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IS JUST 323 00:10:30.338 --> 00:10:31.422 BLOCKING THE HOLE HERE WITH 324 00:10:31.422 --> 00:10:32.757 SOME WOOD GLUE AND JUST A 325 00:10:32.757 --> 00:10:34.425 LITTLE BIT OF SAND ON THE 326 00:10:34.425 --> 00:10:35.968 OUTSIDE OF IT. AND THAT 327 00:10:35.968 --> 00:10:36.969 MICROCHIP IS GOING TO MAKE 328 00:10:36.969 --> 00:10:37.678 THAT HORN TRACKABLE FOR THE 329 00:10:37.678 --> 00:10:39.180 REST OF HIS DAYS. 330 00:10:39.180 --> 00:10:40.389 MIKE: STRAIGHT IN. 331 00:10:40.389 --> 00:10:41.599 PUSH IN HARD. 332 00:10:41.599 --> 00:10:42.516 IVAN: THAT'S A CHIP IN HIS 333 00:10:42.516 --> 00:10:43.726 BODY SO THAT IF THEY WERE TO 334 00:10:43.726 --> 00:10:45.186 FIND HIS CARCASS AND THE HORNS 335 00:10:45.186 --> 00:10:46.103 WERE REMOVED, YOU'D STILL BE 336 00:10:46.103 --> 00:10:47.730 ABLE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHICH 337 00:10:47.730 --> 00:10:51.233 RHINO THIS IS. 338 00:10:51.233 --> 00:10:53.110 IT'S AMAZING TO SEE JUST HOW 339 00:10:53.110 --> 00:10:54.570 MUCH HAS TO HAPPEN IN THIS 340 00:10:54.570 --> 00:10:55.905 15 MINUTES. EVERYBODY'S WORKING 341 00:10:55.905 --> 00:10:57.198 REALLY QUICKLY. AND THIS IS THE 342 00:10:57.198 --> 00:10:58.324 SIDE OF CONSERVATION THAT 343 00:10:58.324 --> 00:10:59.533 A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE 344 00:10:59.533 --> 00:11:00.618 ACTUALLY HAPPENS. 345 00:11:00.618 --> 00:11:01.535 THE RHINO IS STARTING TO 346 00:11:01.535 --> 00:11:03.204 BREATHE A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY. 347 00:11:03.204 --> 00:11:04.163 IN A FEW MINUTES HE'S GOING TO 348 00:11:04.163 --> 00:11:05.373 GET A FULL ANTIDOTE. AND THEN 349 00:11:05.373 --> 00:11:06.791 A COUPLE OF MINUTES LATER, HE'S 350 00:11:06.791 --> 00:11:08.334 GOING TO STAND UP AND LEAVE, NO 351 00:11:08.334 --> 00:11:09.794 WORSE FOR WEAR WHATSOEVER. 352 00:11:09.794 --> 00:11:11.379 AND HOPEFULLY HE'LL GET TO LIVE 353 00:11:11.379 --> 00:11:14.590 TO A RIPE OLD AGE. 354 00:11:14.590 --> 00:11:16.050 MIKE: JUST GETTING READY TO 355 00:11:16.050 --> 00:11:17.635 WAKE THIS GUY UP. OBVIOUSLY 356 00:11:17.635 --> 00:11:18.386 THE SOONER WE CAN GET HIM UP, 357 00:11:18.386 --> 00:11:20.388 THE BETTER NOW. 358 00:11:20.388 --> 00:11:24.225 [MUSIC] 359 00:11:35.277 --> 00:11:36.987 IVAN: HE'S JUST STARTING TO 360 00:11:36.987 --> 00:11:41.283 REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS THERE. 361 00:11:41.283 --> 00:11:43.994 THERE WE GO. AND HE STANDS UP, 362 00:11:43.994 --> 00:11:46.414 A LITTLE CONFUSED. 363 00:11:46.414 --> 00:11:48.290 WHITE RHINOS ARE SOCIAL ANIMALS 364 00:11:48.290 --> 00:11:49.917 AND AS THE RHINO STARTS TO 365 00:11:49.917 --> 00:11:51.627 REGAIN ALL OF HIS SENSES, HIS 366 00:11:51.627 --> 00:11:53.504 FIRST REACTION IS TO WANDER 367 00:11:53.504 --> 00:11:55.589 AROUND LOOKING FOR HIS MATE. 368 00:11:55.589 --> 00:11:58.050 [MUSIC] 369 00:12:09.937 --> 00:12:11.397 AS IF IN THANKS FOR THE WORK 370 00:12:11.397 --> 00:12:13.399 THAT WE'VE DONE FOR THE SPECIES, 371 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:14.900 WE GET A RARE GLIMPSE INTO 372 00:12:14.900 --> 00:12:16.318 THEIR LIVES. 373 00:12:16.318 --> 00:12:17.445 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT 374 00:12:17.445 --> 00:12:18.821 THERE THAT SAY BY SAVING ONE 375 00:12:18.821 --> 00:12:20.614 ANIMAL YOU CAN'T MAKE A 376 00:12:20.614 --> 00:12:22.950 DIFFERENCE. TODAY WE MADE A 377 00:12:22.950 --> 00:12:24.910 DIFFERENCE NOT JUST TO ONE 378 00:12:24.910 --> 00:12:26.036 RHINO, BUT WE MADE A DIFFERENCE 379 00:12:26.036 --> 00:12:27.371 TO TWO. AND THAT'S WHAT REALLY 380 00:12:27.371 --> 00:12:28.956 MATTERS, IF WE CAN ALL JUST 381 00:12:28.956 --> 00:12:30.833 MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 382 00:12:36.964 --> 00:12:38.883 I TALK TO THE PEOPLE ON THE 383 00:12:38.883 --> 00:12:40.509 GROUND HERE, AND THEIR STORIES 384 00:12:40.509 --> 00:12:42.178 ARE CHILLING. THEY TALK OF A 385 00:12:42.178 --> 00:12:43.429 TRADE THAT HAS BROUGHT AN 386 00:12:43.429 --> 00:12:44.722 ENTIRE SPECIES TO THE VERY 387 00:12:44.722 --> 00:12:46.182 BRINK OF EXTINCTION IN MANY 388 00:12:46.182 --> 00:12:47.475 COUNTRIES NORTH OF WHERE I 389 00:12:47.475 --> 00:12:48.851 STAND. THEY TALK ABOUT THE 390 00:12:48.851 --> 00:12:50.853 BRUTAL DEFACING OF RHINOS, 391 00:12:50.853 --> 00:12:51.979 IN SOME CASES WHILE 392 00:12:51.979 --> 00:12:53.898 THEY'RE STILL ALIVE. 393 00:12:58.527 --> 00:13:00.112 I HOPE TO LEARN MORE AT MY 394 00:13:00.112 --> 00:13:01.655 NEXT DESTINATION-- 395 00:13:01.655 --> 00:13:03.657 KRUGER NATIONAL PARK. 396 00:13:03.657 --> 00:13:04.617 COVERING A SURFACE AREA OF OVER 397 00:13:04.617 --> 00:13:06.243 7,000 SQUARE MILES, IT'S 398 00:13:06.243 --> 00:13:07.745 LOCATED IN THE NORTHEASTERN 399 00:13:07.745 --> 00:13:09.246 REGION OF SOUTH AFRICA AND 400 00:13:09.246 --> 00:13:10.498 BORDERS BOTH ZIMBABWE AND 401 00:13:10.498 --> 00:13:13.959 MOZAMBIQUE. 402 00:13:13.959 --> 00:13:15.586 NOT ONLY IS IT ONE OF THE 403 00:13:15.586 --> 00:13:16.670 LARGEST GAME RESERVES ON THE 404 00:13:16.670 --> 00:13:17.880 CONTINENT AND HOME TO OVER HALF 405 00:13:17.880 --> 00:13:20.090 THE WORLD'S REMAINING RHINOS, 406 00:13:20.090 --> 00:13:21.425 IT'S ALSO HOME TO SOME OF THE 407 00:13:21.425 --> 00:13:22.676 MOST PASSIONATE AND EFFICIENT 408 00:13:22.676 --> 00:13:23.928 ANTI-POACHING PERSONNEL 409 00:13:23.928 --> 00:13:27.932 IN THE WORLD. 410 00:13:27.932 --> 00:13:29.683 TO PROTECT THE RHINOS, THE 411 00:13:29.683 --> 00:13:31.519 ANTI-POACHING TEAMS USE STATE 412 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:32.978 OF THE ART EQUIPMENT PROVIDED 413 00:13:32.978 --> 00:13:34.438 BY SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS 414 00:13:34.438 --> 00:13:35.898 AND PRIVATE BENEFACTORS SUCH 415 00:13:35.898 --> 00:13:37.691 AS HOWARD BUFFET. 416 00:13:37.691 --> 00:13:38.776 [GUNSHOTS] 417 00:13:38.776 --> 00:13:39.902 ONE OF THE LEADING MEN, SECTION 418 00:13:39.902 --> 00:13:41.278 RANGER RICHARD SOWRY, IS AN OLD 419 00:13:41.278 --> 00:13:42.571 FRIEND, AND I'M HOPING HE CAN 420 00:13:42.571 --> 00:13:43.864 PROVIDE SOME INSIGHT INTO HIS 421 00:13:43.864 --> 00:13:45.866 PERSPECTIVE ON THIS WAR, A WAR 422 00:13:45.866 --> 00:13:50.204 THAT HE'S FIGHTING EVERY DAY. 423 00:13:50.204 --> 00:13:52.248 I ARRIVE IN THE PARK TO SOME 424 00:13:52.248 --> 00:13:53.833 SINISTER NEWS. THERE'S BEEN 425 00:13:53.833 --> 00:13:56.377 EIGHT SHOTS FIRED IN THE NIGHT. 426 00:13:56.377 --> 00:13:57.628 EIGHT SHOTS IS A LOT OF 427 00:13:57.628 --> 00:13:58.671 SHOOTING. THIS IS A PART OF 428 00:13:58.671 --> 00:13:59.922 THE PARK THAT'S GOT A LOT OF 429 00:13:59.922 --> 00:14:01.549 RHINO IN IT. AND SUBSEQUENTLY 430 00:14:01.549 --> 00:14:02.633 THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND 431 00:14:02.633 --> 00:14:04.552 MONTHS THERE'S ALSO BEEN A 432 00:14:04.552 --> 00:14:06.679 LOT OF POACHING. 433 00:14:08.389 --> 00:14:10.474 RICHARD IS ON DUTY AND HAS 434 00:14:10.474 --> 00:14:12.059 ASKED ME THAT I MEET HIM NEAR 435 00:14:12.059 --> 00:14:15.729 WHERE THE SHOTS WERE FIRED. 436 00:14:15.729 --> 00:14:17.731 GOOD MORNING, RICH. HOW IS IT, 437 00:14:17.731 --> 00:14:19.233 MATE? HOW ARE YOU? SOUNDS 438 00:14:19.233 --> 00:14:21.277 LIKE SOME SHOTS, EH? 439 00:14:21.277 --> 00:14:22.486 RICHARD SOWRY: YEAH. ABOUT 440 00:14:22.486 --> 00:14:23.779 2 A.M. THEY WERE HEARD BY 441 00:14:23.779 --> 00:14:24.738 SOME OF OUR CLANDESTINE 442 00:14:24.738 --> 00:14:25.698 PATROLS. WE HAD A HUNCH THE 443 00:14:25.698 --> 00:14:26.699 GUYS WOULD BE OPERATING IN THIS 444 00:14:26.699 --> 00:14:28.200 AREA. SO WE PUT CLANDESTINES 445 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.996 OUT. ONLY WE KNOW WHERE THEY 446 00:14:31.996 --> 00:14:33.330 ARE, OR I KNOW WHERE THEY ARE. 447 00:14:33.330 --> 00:14:34.832 IVAN: CLANDESTINE PATROLS. 448 00:14:34.832 --> 00:14:36.333 RICHARD PLANS THESE UNDERCOVER 449 00:14:36.333 --> 00:14:37.585 PATROLS AND IS THE ONLY ONE 450 00:14:37.585 --> 00:14:38.961 WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHERE 451 00:14:38.961 --> 00:14:40.337 THEY ACTUALLY ARE. THE RANGERS 452 00:14:40.337 --> 00:14:41.589 QUIETLY CAMP AND LISTEN, 453 00:14:41.589 --> 00:14:43.674 IMMEDIATELY REPORTING TO HIM IF 454 00:14:43.674 --> 00:14:44.967 THEY SEE OR HEAR ANYTHING THAT 455 00:14:44.967 --> 00:14:47.261 MAY INDICATE POACHER ACTIVITY. 456 00:14:47.261 --> 00:14:48.220 SO YOU RECKON OVER HERE JUST IN 457 00:14:48.220 --> 00:14:49.263 THIS LITTLE VALLEY, IS THAT 458 00:14:49.263 --> 00:14:50.139 WHERE THEY SAID, EH? 459 00:14:50.139 --> 00:14:51.265 RICHARD: IT WAS IN THIS 460 00:14:51.265 --> 00:14:52.433 DIRECTION, GENERAL DIRECTION. 461 00:14:52.433 --> 00:14:53.434 SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOOK. 462 00:14:53.434 --> 00:14:54.435 WE'VE GOT GUYS LOOKING ALREADY. 463 00:14:54.435 --> 00:14:55.603 THEY'VE BEEN OPERATING SINCE 464 00:14:55.603 --> 00:14:56.770 FIRST LIGHT. THEY COULD HAVE 465 00:14:56.770 --> 00:14:57.938 WOUNDED AN ANIMAL. YOU DON'T 466 00:14:57.938 --> 00:14:59.273 KNOW. WITH THAT MANY SHOTS IT'S 467 00:14:59.273 --> 00:15:00.816 PROBABLY PRETTY LIKELY THERE'S 468 00:15:00.816 --> 00:15:02.610 SOMETHING DOWN. 469 00:15:02.610 --> 00:15:04.445 IVAN: I HAVE NO IDEA AS TO 470 00:15:04.445 --> 00:15:05.779 WHAT WE'RE GOING TO FIND. ONE 471 00:15:05.779 --> 00:15:07.239 THING IS FOR CERTAIN. IF EIGHT 472 00:15:07.239 --> 00:15:08.782 SHOTS WERE FIRED, THERE 473 00:15:08.782 --> 00:15:10.367 WAS ABSOLUTELY A CONTACT 474 00:15:10.367 --> 00:15:14.246 OF SOME SORT. 475 00:15:14.246 --> 00:15:15.497 IT REALLY IS A NEEDLE IN A 476 00:15:15.497 --> 00:15:17.249 HAYSTACK TYPE OF SCENARIO. THE 477 00:15:17.249 --> 00:15:18.375 CLANDESTINE PATROL WAS JUST UP 478 00:15:18.375 --> 00:15:20.002 IN THIS VALLEY HERE. I THINK 479 00:15:20.002 --> 00:15:21.795 THAT THE SHOTS WERE FIRED 480 00:15:21.795 --> 00:15:24.423 SOMEWHERE ALONG JUST IN FRONT 481 00:15:24.423 --> 00:15:26.383 OF US HERE. WE'RE GOING TO 482 00:15:26.383 --> 00:15:27.760 MOVE IN HERE, HAVING A LOOK FOR 483 00:15:27.760 --> 00:15:29.678 ANY KIND OF A SIGN OF A RHINO 484 00:15:29.678 --> 00:15:31.305 RUNNING, ANY KIND OF SIGN THAT 485 00:15:31.305 --> 00:15:33.098 THERE MAY BE A DEAD RHINO, ANY 486 00:15:33.098 --> 00:15:34.600 SIGN OF HUMAN FOOTPRINTS. 487 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:36.727 YOU'LL NOTICE THAT RICHARD HAS 488 00:15:36.727 --> 00:15:39.104 ACTUALLY GOT HIS HEAVY CALIBER 489 00:15:39.104 --> 00:15:40.481 DOUBLE RIFLE. THAT'S JUST IN 490 00:15:40.481 --> 00:15:42.399 CASE WE BUMP INTO ANY ONE OF 491 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:43.567 THE HEAVY-BONED, THICK-SKINNED 492 00:15:43.567 --> 00:15:44.693 ANIMALS THAT ARE FREQUENT IN 493 00:15:44.693 --> 00:15:46.070 THIS BUSH, WHETHER IT'S 494 00:15:46.070 --> 00:15:48.405 ELEPHANT, BUFFALO, RHINO. YOU 495 00:15:48.405 --> 00:15:49.865 KNOW, AND HAVING HAD SHOTS FIRED 496 00:15:49.865 --> 00:15:50.908 THERE COULD BE A CHANCE THAT 497 00:15:50.908 --> 00:15:52.242 ANY ONE OF THOSE THINGS COULD 498 00:15:52.242 --> 00:15:53.869 BE WOUNDED. AND YOU NEED TO BE 499 00:15:53.869 --> 00:15:54.995 ABLE TO STOP THEM IF THEY TRY 500 00:15:54.995 --> 00:15:56.330 AND KILL YOU. THE 501 00:15:56.330 --> 00:15:57.498 ANTI-POACHING GUYS HAVE ALL GOT 502 00:15:57.498 --> 00:15:59.333 MILITARY WEAPONRY. AFTER ALL, 503 00:15:59.333 --> 00:16:01.627 THEY'RE HUNTING HUMANS. 504 00:16:04.505 --> 00:16:06.757 WE WALK FURTHER INTO THE BUSH, 505 00:16:06.757 --> 00:16:07.800 CLOSER TO WHERE IT'S THOUGHT 506 00:16:07.800 --> 00:16:09.510 THE SHOTS WERE FIRED, HOPING 507 00:16:09.510 --> 00:16:10.928 THAT PERHAPS WE'LL FIND 508 00:16:10.928 --> 00:16:12.221 NOTHING, BUT NERVOUS THAT 509 00:16:12.221 --> 00:16:14.682 WE'LL FIND A MASSACRE. 510 00:16:14.682 --> 00:16:17.685 RICHARD: AH, LOOK HERE. 511 00:16:17.685 --> 00:16:20.729 IVAN: HERE'S A CARCASS. 512 00:16:20.729 --> 00:16:21.855 RICHARD: IT'S NOT A VERY 513 00:16:21.855 --> 00:16:22.940 BIG CARCASS. 514 00:16:22.940 --> 00:16:24.942 IVAN: NO. 515 00:16:28.112 --> 00:16:30.114 IT LOOKS LIKE A BABY, MAN. 516 00:16:40.582 --> 00:16:42.209 IVAN: I AM IVAN CARTER-- 517 00:16:42.209 --> 00:16:43.669 HUNTER, CONSERVATIONIST, 518 00:16:43.669 --> 00:16:45.462 AND WILDLIFE INVESTIGATOR. 519 00:16:45.462 --> 00:16:46.964 AFTER DARTING A RHINO FOR 520 00:16:46.964 --> 00:16:48.424 TRACKING PURPOSES, I'VE 521 00:16:48.424 --> 00:16:50.050 TRAVELED TO KRUGER NATIONAL 522 00:16:50.050 --> 00:16:51.760 PARK, WHERE I'VE MET SECTION 523 00:16:51.760 --> 00:16:53.762 RANGER RICHARD SOWRY. WE'RE 524 00:16:53.762 --> 00:16:55.055 NOW WALKING INTO AN AREA IN 525 00:16:55.055 --> 00:16:56.265 WHICH EIGHT GUNSHOTS WERE 526 00:16:56.265 --> 00:16:58.976 REPORTEDLY FIRED LAST NIGHT. 527 00:17:02.980 --> 00:17:04.314 HERE'S A CARCASS. IT LOOKS 528 00:17:04.314 --> 00:17:05.816 LIKE A BABY, MAN. 529 00:17:14.992 --> 00:17:17.453 LOOK HOW SMALL THIS THING IS. 530 00:17:17.453 --> 00:17:18.996 I MEAN THIS IS A YEAR OLD, 531 00:17:18.996 --> 00:17:19.913 RICHARD. 532 00:17:19.913 --> 00:17:20.914 RICHARD: YEAH. 533 00:17:20.914 --> 00:17:23.751 IVAN: IT'S TINY, YEAH. 534 00:17:23.751 --> 00:17:26.462 A BABY RHINO, HARDLY A YEAR 535 00:17:26.462 --> 00:17:29.339 OLD. BLOOD STAINING THE GROUND 536 00:17:29.339 --> 00:17:31.008 WHERE IT STRUGGLED WITH 537 00:17:31.008 --> 00:17:33.260 ITS LAST STEPS. 538 00:17:37.014 --> 00:17:38.849 RICHARD: PROBABLY A HEART-LUNG 539 00:17:38.849 --> 00:17:40.017 SHOT. THIS IS THE BLOOD THAT 540 00:17:40.017 --> 00:17:41.018 YOU CAN SEE IT COMING OUT OF 541 00:17:41.018 --> 00:17:42.519 ITS NOSE. BUT IT BLED OUT HERE 542 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:43.353 AND DIED HERE. 543 00:17:43.353 --> 00:17:44.480 IVAN: THIS THING HARDLY EVEN 544 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:46.607 HAD HORNS, MAN. 545 00:17:49.193 --> 00:17:50.819 LOOK AT THAT, I MEAN THE BACK 546 00:17:50.819 --> 00:17:52.362 HORN HARDLY EXISTED. LOOK, 547 00:17:52.362 --> 00:17:53.864 THEY'VE NOT EVEN -- IT WAS JUST 548 00:17:53.864 --> 00:17:56.366 A LITTLE LUMP, MAN. 549 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:01.830 YOU KNOW, IT'S HARDLY A HUMAN 550 00:18:01.830 --> 00:18:03.916 BEING THAT CAN KILL A BABY 551 00:18:03.916 --> 00:18:07.461 WITH -- I MEAN, THESE GUYS ARE 552 00:18:07.461 --> 00:18:08.670 AFTER THE HORN. THIS THING 553 00:18:08.670 --> 00:18:10.506 HARDLY EVEN HAD A HORN. THIS 554 00:18:10.506 --> 00:18:11.632 THING WAS IN THE -- PROBABLY 555 00:18:11.632 --> 00:18:12.800 JUST AT THE END OF ITS FIRST 556 00:18:12.800 --> 00:18:14.802 YEAR OF LIFE. THIS HAS GOT TO 557 00:18:14.802 --> 00:18:16.136 STOP, RICH. THIS HAS GOT 558 00:18:16.136 --> 00:18:17.596 TO STOP, MAN. 559 00:18:17.596 --> 00:18:18.639 RICHARD: YOU KNOW, YOU GET SO 560 00:18:18.639 --> 00:18:19.807 HARDENED BY IT, YOU SEE IT SO 561 00:18:19.807 --> 00:18:21.809 OFTEN. THIS LITTLE GUY COULD 562 00:18:21.809 --> 00:18:23.018 HAVE ADDED SO MUCH MORE VALUE 563 00:18:23.018 --> 00:18:24.978 THAN JUST TO THE POACHER. 564 00:18:24.978 --> 00:18:25.938 BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY BLOKE 565 00:18:25.938 --> 00:18:27.773 WHO'S GOING TO BE BENEFITING 566 00:18:27.773 --> 00:18:28.732 FROM THIS. 567 00:18:28.732 --> 00:18:30.067 IVAN: RICH, YOU KNOW, THIS 568 00:18:30.067 --> 00:18:31.610 SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE HAS 569 00:18:31.610 --> 00:18:32.653 GOT TO BE STOPPED. THE KIND OF 570 00:18:32.653 --> 00:18:33.654 PERSON THAT'S JUST GONNA 571 00:18:33.654 --> 00:18:35.823 KILL A BABY. 572 00:18:35.823 --> 00:18:36.824 RICHARD: THESE GUYS ARE GOING 573 00:18:36.824 --> 00:18:38.158 TO BE BACK, AND WHEN THEY COME 574 00:18:38.158 --> 00:18:39.201 BACK, WE'RE GOING TO BE WAITING 575 00:18:39.201 --> 00:18:42.371 FOR THEM. 576 00:18:42.371 --> 00:18:43.872 IVAN: EIGHT SHOTS WERE HEARD 577 00:18:43.872 --> 00:18:45.624 LAST NIGHT. THIS BABY WAS 578 00:18:45.624 --> 00:18:47.167 YOUNG ENOUGH THAT IT WAS LIKELY 579 00:18:47.167 --> 00:18:48.836 STILL WITH ITS MOTHER. THE 580 00:18:48.836 --> 00:18:50.587 POACHERS LIKELY SPOTTED BOTH OF 581 00:18:50.587 --> 00:18:52.256 THEM, AND AS THE RHINOS RAN, 582 00:18:52.256 --> 00:18:54.091 THEY FIRED THEIR RIFLES, 583 00:18:54.091 --> 00:18:55.217 KILLING THE BABY, AND POSSIBLY 584 00:18:55.217 --> 00:18:57.386 WOUNDING THE MOTHER. THE BABY 585 00:18:57.386 --> 00:18:59.263 HAD BUT A SINGLE BULLET HOLE. 586 00:18:59.263 --> 00:19:01.140 WHERE DID THE OTHER SEVEN SHOTS 587 00:19:01.140 --> 00:19:02.683 GO? THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING 588 00:19:02.683 --> 00:19:07.104 TO FIND OUT. 589 00:19:07.104 --> 00:19:08.522 ANY BLOOD THERE? 590 00:19:08.522 --> 00:19:09.690 RICHARD: NOTHING. IT'S A 591 00:19:09.690 --> 00:19:11.525 YOUNG RHINO, THAT ONE, THAT 592 00:19:11.525 --> 00:19:13.026 CARCASS OVER THERE, AND THAT 593 00:19:13.026 --> 00:19:14.695 WOULD HAVE BEEN PROBABLY STILL 594 00:19:14.695 --> 00:19:16.446 WITH ITS MOTHER. I DON'T KNOW, 595 00:19:16.446 --> 00:19:19.116 IT DOESN'T PIECE TOGETHER. 596 00:19:19.116 --> 00:19:20.075 IVAN: THERE'S NO BLOOD DOWN 597 00:19:20.075 --> 00:19:22.202 HERE. CHANCES ARE THAT THE 598 00:19:22.202 --> 00:19:26.540 RHINO HAS RUN AWAY WOUNDED. 599 00:19:26.540 --> 00:19:28.834 RICHARD CALLS IN HIS PATROL. 600 00:19:28.834 --> 00:19:30.127 THE POACHERS ARE ARMED AND IN 601 00:19:30.127 --> 00:19:32.004 POSSESSION OF A HORN. FULLY 602 00:19:32.004 --> 00:19:33.297 AWARE OF THE EFFICIENT 603 00:19:33.297 --> 00:19:35.090 ANTI-POACHING TEAMS RUN BY 604 00:19:35.090 --> 00:19:36.842 SAND PARKS, THEY'LL BE MAKING 605 00:19:36.842 --> 00:19:38.427 A BEELINE TOWARDS THE BOUNDARY 606 00:19:38.427 --> 00:19:41.013 FENCE. WE NOW ENTER PRIVATE 607 00:19:41.013 --> 00:19:42.681 LAND. THIS IS A SECTION OF THE 608 00:19:42.681 --> 00:19:44.683 GREATER KRUGER SYSTEM. AS 609 00:19:44.683 --> 00:19:45.976 RICHARD'S PATROL TEAM SEARCHES 610 00:19:45.976 --> 00:19:47.603 FOR THE POACHERS, WE START TO 611 00:19:47.603 --> 00:19:49.521 FOLLOW THE RHINO TRACKS LEADING 612 00:19:49.521 --> 00:19:50.814 US AWAY FROM THE CRIME SCENE. 613 00:19:50.814 --> 00:19:52.858 WHILE THERE'S NO BLOOD AT ALL 614 00:19:52.858 --> 00:19:53.817 ON THE GROUND, IT MUST BE 615 00:19:53.817 --> 00:19:55.194 REMEMBERED THAT A RHINO'S SKIN 616 00:19:55.194 --> 00:19:56.737 CAN BE UP TO 3 INCHES THICK, 617 00:19:56.737 --> 00:19:58.113 ALLOWING FOR A BULLET TO PASS 618 00:19:58.113 --> 00:19:59.781 THROUGH AND EFFECTIVELY SEAL 619 00:19:59.781 --> 00:20:03.160 OFF THE WOUND. BUT IT'S NOT 620 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:04.494 LONG BEFORE WE COME ACROSS OUR 621 00:20:04.494 --> 00:20:06.496 FIRST DROPPING. WE'RE GETTING 622 00:20:06.496 --> 00:20:08.999 CLOSER TO HER. 623 00:20:08.999 --> 00:20:10.542 NOW RICHARD'S CHOICE OF DOGS 624 00:20:10.542 --> 00:20:11.877 FOR THIS PARTICULAR EVENT IS A 625 00:20:11.877 --> 00:20:14.171 RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK, VERY, VERY 626 00:20:14.171 --> 00:20:15.714 GOOD IN THE AFRICAN BUSH. IT'S 627 00:20:15.714 --> 00:20:17.507 A VERY HARDY BREED. AND 628 00:20:17.507 --> 00:20:19.509 THEY'RE PARTICULARLY FEARLESS. 629 00:20:19.509 --> 00:20:21.178 RICHARD'S DOGS ARE PERFECT FOR 630 00:20:21.178 --> 00:20:22.930 TRACKING WOUNDED GAME. THEY'RE 631 00:20:22.930 --> 00:20:24.014 TRAINED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS 632 00:20:24.014 --> 00:20:25.599 TYPE OF SITUATION, UNLIKE THE 633 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:26.975 ANTI-POACHING DOGS, WHICH ARE 634 00:20:26.975 --> 00:20:29.728 TRAINED TO HUNT MAN. 635 00:20:29.728 --> 00:20:30.938 AS THE DAY WEARS ON, THE 636 00:20:30.938 --> 00:20:32.397 ENVIRONMENTALS CHANGE, THINGS 637 00:20:32.397 --> 00:20:33.732 THAT YOU WOULDN'T EVEN BE AWARE 638 00:20:33.732 --> 00:20:35.108 OF IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT--HOW 639 00:20:35.108 --> 00:20:36.610 THE WIND STARTS TO SLOWLY 640 00:20:36.610 --> 00:20:38.028 INCREASE, HOW THE HUMIDITY 641 00:20:38.028 --> 00:20:39.446 STARTS TO DROP AS THE DAY GETS 642 00:20:39.446 --> 00:20:40.614 WARMER. YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT TWO 643 00:20:40.614 --> 00:20:41.865 THINGS THAT WE'VE GOT TO 644 00:20:41.865 --> 00:20:42.991 CONSIDER HERE: THE EFFICIENCY 645 00:20:42.991 --> 00:20:44.326 OF THE DOGS WITH REGARD TO THE 646 00:20:44.326 --> 00:20:45.827 SCENT, AND THE EFFICIENCY OF 647 00:20:45.827 --> 00:20:47.162 THE TRACKERS WITH REGARD 648 00:20:47.162 --> 00:20:48.247 TO THE TRACKS. 649 00:20:48.247 --> 00:20:51.792 RANGER: HEY, NO. GO! GO, GO! 650 00:20:51.792 --> 00:20:53.377 IVAN: SUDDENLY, THE SENIOR 651 00:20:53.377 --> 00:20:54.378 FIELD RANGER CALLS TO US AND 652 00:20:54.378 --> 00:20:56.046 QUICKLY ADVANCES WITH HIS RIFLE 653 00:20:56.046 --> 00:20:57.381 HELD READY. POACHERS HAVE 654 00:20:57.381 --> 00:20:58.548 BEEN SPOTTED IN THE 655 00:20:58.548 --> 00:21:00.550 DISTANCE RUNNING OFF. 656 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:06.890 "CARTER'S WAR" IS BROUGHT TO 657 00:21:06.890 --> 00:21:09.768 IVAN: I'M IVAN CARTER--HUNTER, 658 00:21:09.768 --> 00:21:10.852 CONSERVATIONIST, AND 659 00:21:10.852 --> 00:21:13.855 WILDLIFE INVESTIGATOR. 660 00:21:13.855 --> 00:21:15.190 I'M ON A MISSION TO DETERMINE 661 00:21:15.190 --> 00:21:16.400 WHAT'S BEING DONE ABOUT THE 662 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:18.110 RHINOS' IMPENDING EXTINCTION 663 00:21:18.110 --> 00:21:19.695 AND TO DETERMINE IF IN FACT 664 00:21:19.695 --> 00:21:21.655 THERE IS A SOLUTION. I'M WITH 665 00:21:21.655 --> 00:21:23.699 RICHARD SOWRY, A SECTION RANGER 666 00:21:23.699 --> 00:21:25.617 IN THE KRUGER NATIONAL PARK. 667 00:21:25.617 --> 00:21:27.661 LAST NIGHT A BABY RHINO WAS 668 00:21:27.661 --> 00:21:29.913 KILLED, EIGHT SHOTS WERE FIRED. 669 00:21:29.913 --> 00:21:31.456 AND NOW WE'RE ON THE TRACKS OF 670 00:21:31.456 --> 00:21:32.916 THE MOTHER, WHOM WE SUSPECT 671 00:21:32.916 --> 00:21:35.085 MAY BE WOUNDED. WE'VE SPOTTED 672 00:21:35.085 --> 00:21:36.628 POACHERS IN THE DISTANCE. 673 00:21:36.628 --> 00:21:37.671 THEY'RE ARMED, DANGEROUS, AND 674 00:21:37.671 --> 00:21:39.256 DESPERATE PEOPLE. RATHER THAN 675 00:21:39.256 --> 00:21:40.507 SIMPLY CHASE AFTER THEM, WE 676 00:21:40.507 --> 00:21:42.592 IMMEDIATELY CALL IN THE CHOPPER 677 00:21:42.592 --> 00:21:43.677 AND SPECIALIST TRACKER DOG 678 00:21:43.677 --> 00:21:46.263 THAT'S BEEN STANDING BY. 679 00:21:46.263 --> 00:21:47.889 SOME POACHERS ACTUALLY BUMPED 680 00:21:47.889 --> 00:21:49.099 INTO THE GUYS. NO SHOTS WERE 681 00:21:49.099 --> 00:21:50.892 FIRED, BUT WE'RE JUST WAITING 682 00:21:50.892 --> 00:21:52.811 FOR THE HELICOPTER TO COME, AND 683 00:21:52.811 --> 00:21:55.147 POSSIBLY WITH THE TRACKING DOG, 684 00:21:55.147 --> 00:21:56.481 AND THEN WE'LL SEE WHAT 685 00:21:56.481 --> 00:21:58.900 HAPPENS. IT'S ALL MOVING 686 00:21:58.900 --> 00:22:00.569 PRETTY FAST RIGHT NOW. THE 687 00:22:00.569 --> 00:22:01.486 LIGHT IS FADING. WE'RE IN 688 00:22:01.486 --> 00:22:02.529 ABOUT THE LAST HOUR AND A 689 00:22:02.529 --> 00:22:03.530 HALF OF DAYLIGHT. 690 00:22:03.530 --> 00:22:05.407 [INDISTINCT RADIO COMMUNICATION] 691 00:22:05.407 --> 00:22:06.742 OKAY, WELL, THE CHOPPER IS ON 692 00:22:06.742 --> 00:22:07.993 THE WAY IN. WE'RE JUST CALLING 693 00:22:07.993 --> 00:22:09.119 THEM WITH THE GROUND TO AIR 694 00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:10.245 RADIO. THE POACHERS JUST RAN 695 00:22:10.245 --> 00:22:11.747 OFF HERE. SO WE'RE RIGHT, 696 00:22:11.747 --> 00:22:13.123 RIGHT BEHIND THEM. 697 00:22:13.123 --> 00:22:14.791 HERE THEY COME. 698 00:22:20.255 --> 00:22:22.174 RICHARD'S JUST TALKING THEM IN, 699 00:22:22.174 --> 00:22:23.050 TELLING THEM EXACTLY WHERE THE 700 00:22:23.050 --> 00:22:24.384 POACHERS WENT SO THAT THEY 701 00:22:24.384 --> 00:22:26.595 DON'T DESTROY ANY SCENT. WE'RE 702 00:22:26.595 --> 00:22:27.971 JUST GOING TO GET OUT OF THE 703 00:22:27.971 --> 00:22:30.265 WAY HERE. 704 00:22:30.265 --> 00:22:31.683 THESE GUYS ARE GOING TO GET ON 705 00:22:31.683 --> 00:22:33.018 THE GROUND AS FAST AS POSSIBLE 706 00:22:33.018 --> 00:22:34.186 AND GET IN AS CLOSE AS THEY CAN 707 00:22:34.186 --> 00:22:35.604 TO WHERE THE POACHERS 708 00:22:35.604 --> 00:22:39.858 WERE LAST SEEN. 709 00:22:39.858 --> 00:22:40.692 TO PROTECT THE IDENTITIES OF 710 00:22:40.692 --> 00:22:42.402 THE TASK FORCE, WE CANNOT FILM 711 00:22:42.402 --> 00:22:44.029 THEIR FACES AS THEY TOUCH THE 712 00:22:44.029 --> 00:22:46.615 GROUND. BUT THEY ARE SOON ON 713 00:22:46.615 --> 00:22:48.325 THE TRACKS OF THE POACHERS. 714 00:22:48.325 --> 00:22:49.576 THE DOG PICKS UP THE SCENT AND 715 00:22:49.576 --> 00:22:51.328 PULLS STRONGLY ON THE LEASH. 716 00:22:51.328 --> 00:22:52.788 THAT DOG IS GOING TO BE ON 717 00:22:52.788 --> 00:22:53.747 THOSE TRACKS AND SURROUNDED BY 718 00:22:53.747 --> 00:22:54.873 PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY GOOD AT 719 00:22:54.873 --> 00:22:56.208 HUNTING OTHER PEOPLE. IT'S 720 00:22:56.208 --> 00:22:57.459 GOING TO BE A BAD COUPLE OF 721 00:22:57.459 --> 00:23:00.337 HOURS TO BE A POACHER RIGHT NOW. 722 00:23:00.337 --> 00:23:01.630 THAT'S A PARK CHOPPER GOING 723 00:23:01.630 --> 00:23:02.923 OVER. THOSE GUYS ARE LOOKING 724 00:23:02.923 --> 00:23:04.674 OUT FROM ABOVE. IF THESE GUYS 725 00:23:04.674 --> 00:23:06.218 MAKE A BREAK, IF THE DOG GETS 726 00:23:06.218 --> 00:23:07.260 TOO CLOSE, IF THE PEOPLE GET 727 00:23:07.260 --> 00:23:08.637 TOO CLOSE AND THEY MAKE A 728 00:23:08.637 --> 00:23:10.389 BREAK, THAT PARK'S CHOPPER IS 729 00:23:10.389 --> 00:23:12.557 GOING TO SEE THEM INSTANTLY. 730 00:23:12.557 --> 00:23:13.558 >> SO YOU'LL NEED A [UNCLEAR] 731 00:23:13.558 --> 00:23:15.727 TO COME DOWN. 732 00:23:15.727 --> 00:23:16.853 RICHARD: OKAY, COPY, THANKS. 733 00:23:16.853 --> 00:23:19.022 THANKS FOR THE UPDATE. OVER. 734 00:23:19.022 --> 00:23:20.190 I JUST GOT A CALL ON THE RADIO. 735 00:23:20.190 --> 00:23:21.108 THEY SAY THE DOG IS RUNNING ON 736 00:23:21.108 --> 00:23:22.025 THEIR TRACK. REALLY, IT'S 737 00:23:22.025 --> 00:23:23.151 FRESH NOW. 738 00:23:23.151 --> 00:23:23.985 IVAN: THAT'S AWESOME. 739 00:23:23.985 --> 00:23:24.736 RICHARD: SHOULD BE GOOD. 740 00:23:24.736 --> 00:23:25.529 IVAN: THAT'S AWESOME. YOU KNOW, 741 00:23:25.529 --> 00:23:26.696 ONCE YOU'VE GOT A DOG ON YOUR 742 00:23:26.696 --> 00:23:27.572 HEELS AND YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY 743 00:23:27.572 --> 00:23:28.782 TASK FORCE, THERE AIN'T NOT 744 00:23:28.782 --> 00:23:31.410 MANY PLACES YOU'RE GOING TO RUN. 745 00:23:31.410 --> 00:23:32.285 MILITARY PRECISION AND 746 00:23:32.285 --> 00:23:33.745 EQUIPMENT HIGHLIGHTS THE TRUTH 747 00:23:33.745 --> 00:23:34.913 OF THE CONSERVATION WAR THAT 748 00:23:34.913 --> 00:23:36.415 RAGES HERE. THIS IS THE 749 00:23:36.415 --> 00:23:38.500 REALITY OF THE RHINO WAR. 750 00:23:38.500 --> 00:23:41.086 THIS TRULY IS MODERN DAY 751 00:23:41.086 --> 00:23:42.212 CONSERVATION. THESE ARE THE 752 00:23:42.212 --> 00:23:43.088 STORIES THAT NOBODY WANTS TO 753 00:23:43.088 --> 00:23:44.131 TALK ABOUT. BUT THE SOUTH 754 00:23:44.131 --> 00:23:45.590 AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS, THIS IS 755 00:23:45.590 --> 00:23:46.967 THE ESSENCE OF THE SUCCESS THAT 756 00:23:46.967 --> 00:23:48.927 THEY ENJOY WITH REGARD TO THEIR 757 00:23:48.927 --> 00:23:50.720 WILDLIFE. IT'S BECAUSE OF THIS 758 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:52.055 KIND OF REACTION, IT'S BECAUSE 759 00:23:52.055 --> 00:23:53.515 OF THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT 760 00:23:53.515 --> 00:23:54.558 GO INTO PROTECTING THIS 761 00:23:54.558 --> 00:23:55.517 WILDLIFE, THAT IT'S GOING 762 00:23:55.517 --> 00:23:56.852 TO BE HERE FOR OUR CHILDREN'S 763 00:23:56.852 --> 00:23:58.478 CHILDREN. 764 00:24:04.025 --> 00:24:05.694 WE CONTINUE TO FOLLOW BEHIND 765 00:24:05.694 --> 00:24:07.195 THE TASK FORCE WHEN WE SMELL 766 00:24:07.195 --> 00:24:10.031 SOMETHING, A FAMILIAR SMELL. 767 00:24:10.031 --> 00:24:12.284 WE SMELT SOMETHING DEAD HERE. 768 00:24:12.284 --> 00:24:13.618 IT'S A KIND OF A VERY MUSTY, 769 00:24:13.618 --> 00:24:15.078 ACRID ODOR. SO WE'RE JUST 770 00:24:15.078 --> 00:24:16.538 GOING BACK, NOW THAT WE'VE 771 00:24:16.538 --> 00:24:17.956 TAKEN CARE OF THIS, THE 772 00:24:17.956 --> 00:24:19.458 CHOPPERS ARE HOVERING OVER 773 00:24:19.458 --> 00:24:20.792 WHERE THAT POACHER HAS BEEN 774 00:24:20.792 --> 00:24:21.793 TRACKED BY THE DOG. WE'RE 775 00:24:21.793 --> 00:24:22.752 GOING TO COME BACK AND SEE IF 776 00:24:22.752 --> 00:24:24.504 THIS SCENT MEANS ANYTHING. 777 00:24:29.634 --> 00:24:30.969 RICHARD: IVAN. 778 00:24:34.222 --> 00:24:35.932 IVAN: SEE A FEW VULTURE 779 00:24:35.932 --> 00:24:36.892 FEATHERS HANGING IN THE TREES 780 00:24:36.892 --> 00:24:38.643 HERE. SO WHATEVER WAS DEAD IS 781 00:24:38.643 --> 00:24:40.729 GOING TO BE PRETTY CLOSE BY. 782 00:24:40.729 --> 00:24:41.813 YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IN THE BUSH 783 00:24:41.813 --> 00:24:44.316 IS ABOUT TINY LITTLE SIGNS. 784 00:24:44.316 --> 00:24:45.775 THESE VULTURE FEATHERS LIKE 785 00:24:45.775 --> 00:24:47.235 THAT ARE SOME OF THOSE TINY 786 00:24:47.235 --> 00:24:48.820 LITTLE SIGNS. THEY'RE LIKE 787 00:24:48.820 --> 00:24:50.322 LITTLE FLAGS. 788 00:24:50.322 --> 00:24:51.239 [DOG BARKING] 789 00:24:51.239 --> 00:24:52.491 RICHARD: HEY, NO, NO. NO. 790 00:24:52.491 --> 00:24:53.909 SIMMER DOWN, SIMMER DOWN. 791 00:24:53.909 --> 00:24:55.202 IVAN: WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? 792 00:25:00.207 --> 00:25:01.875 IVAN: I'M IVAN CARTER. 793 00:25:01.875 --> 00:25:03.210 FOLLOWING UP ON EIGHT SHOTS 794 00:25:03.210 --> 00:25:04.878 THAT WERE FIRED LAST NIGHT, WE 795 00:25:04.878 --> 00:25:06.546 LOCATED A BABY RHINO. POACHED 796 00:25:06.546 --> 00:25:08.632 FOR ITS HORN. THE MOTHER 797 00:25:08.632 --> 00:25:10.842 SUSPECTED WOUNDED. WHILE 798 00:25:10.842 --> 00:25:12.636 FOLLOWING HER TRACKS WE SPOTTED 799 00:25:12.636 --> 00:25:13.720 A GROUP OF POACHERS AND NOW 800 00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:14.721 WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF AN 801 00:25:14.721 --> 00:25:16.056 INTENSE MANHUNT. THE POACHERS 802 00:25:16.056 --> 00:25:17.641 HAVE BECOME THE HUNTED. AND 803 00:25:17.641 --> 00:25:19.226 THE CHOPPER AND THE SAND PARK'S 804 00:25:19.226 --> 00:25:20.560 OPERATIVES ARE RIGHT ON THEIR 805 00:25:20.560 --> 00:25:21.728 HEELS. MEANWHILE, SECTION 806 00:25:21.728 --> 00:25:23.396 RANGER RICHARD SOWRY AND I, 807 00:25:23.396 --> 00:25:25.106 WITH THE HELP OF HIS DOGS, 808 00:25:25.106 --> 00:25:27.275 HAVE DISCOVERED SOMETHING ELSE. 809 00:25:29.861 --> 00:25:32.405 THERE'S A RHINO CARCASS UP HERE. 810 00:25:32.405 --> 00:25:36.910 ONE THAT NOBODY KNEW ABOUT. 811 00:25:36.910 --> 00:25:38.078 THIS IS THE REAL DEAL RIGHT 812 00:25:38.078 --> 00:25:39.538 HERE. WE'VE GOT A HELICOPTER 813 00:25:39.538 --> 00:25:41.373 IN THE AIR CHASING A POACHER. 814 00:25:41.373 --> 00:25:43.083 WE'VE GOT A RHINO CARCASS FROM 815 00:25:43.083 --> 00:25:45.460 A FEW DAYS AGO HERE, INDICATED 816 00:25:45.460 --> 00:25:48.004 BY THESE SEEMINGLY PRETTY 817 00:25:48.004 --> 00:25:50.549 LITTLE FEATHERS HERE. 818 00:25:50.549 --> 00:25:54.052 THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. 819 00:25:55.929 --> 00:25:58.598 THE SMELL IS THICK IN THE AIR. 820 00:25:58.598 --> 00:26:00.517 IT'S A DRY HUSK OF SKIN 821 00:26:00.517 --> 00:26:02.519 STRETCHED ACROSS THE PUTREFYING 822 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:04.104 REMAINS OF WHAT WAS JUST A FEW 823 00:26:04.104 --> 00:26:08.233 DAYS BEFORE A LIVING RHINO. 824 00:26:09.526 --> 00:26:10.860 YOU KNOW, IT JUST BREAKS YOUR 825 00:26:10.860 --> 00:26:13.697 HEART WHEN YOU PHYSICALLY SEE 826 00:26:13.697 --> 00:26:15.991 THIS. THIS IS NOT A PHOTO. 827 00:26:15.991 --> 00:26:18.368 THIS IS NOT MAKE-BELIEVE. THIS 828 00:26:18.368 --> 00:26:19.911 IS THE REALITY. THIS IS WHAT 829 00:26:19.911 --> 00:26:22.539 WE ARE BOUND AND DESTINED TO 830 00:26:22.539 --> 00:26:25.542 PROTECT. AND THIS IS WHAT THE 831 00:26:25.542 --> 00:26:26.876 SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS IS 832 00:26:26.876 --> 00:26:29.045 PUTTING SO MANY MILLIONS OF 833 00:26:29.045 --> 00:26:31.923 DOLLARS INTO PROTECTING. NOT 834 00:26:31.923 --> 00:26:33.008 JUST TO PROTECT RHINOS LIKE 835 00:26:33.008 --> 00:26:35.969 THIS, BUT TO PROTECT THE ENTIRE 836 00:26:35.969 --> 00:26:38.805 FUTURE. WE'VE GOT TO DO 837 00:26:38.805 --> 00:26:40.348 SOMETHING. 838 00:26:40.348 --> 00:26:43.435 WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. 839 00:26:43.435 --> 00:26:44.686 LIKE ELEPHANTS, RHINOS BELONG 840 00:26:44.686 --> 00:26:45.812 TO A GROUP OF ANIMALS KNOWN AS 841 00:26:45.812 --> 00:26:47.606 PACHYDERMS. THEIR HORN IS NOT 842 00:26:47.606 --> 00:26:48.648 AS UNIQUE AS THE ASIAN 843 00:26:48.648 --> 00:26:51.484 MARKETS BELIEVE. 844 00:26:51.484 --> 00:26:53.862 THE IRONY, THIS IS THE SOLE OF 845 00:26:53.862 --> 00:26:56.615 THE RHINO'S FOOT. THE HOOVES 846 00:26:56.615 --> 00:26:58.825 OF THE RHINO ARE MADE OUT OF 847 00:26:58.825 --> 00:27:00.952 EXACTLY THE SAME MATERIAL AS 848 00:27:00.952 --> 00:27:03.663 THE HORN. YET THIS HAS BEEN 849 00:27:03.663 --> 00:27:05.540 DISCARDED AS TRASH, AND THE HORN 850 00:27:05.540 --> 00:27:07.751 HAS BEEN TAKEN AS SOMETHING OF 851 00:27:07.751 --> 00:27:09.544 VALUE, VALUABLE ENOUGH TO KILL 852 00:27:09.544 --> 00:27:12.213 THIS RHINO FOR. THIS HAS GOT 853 00:27:12.213 --> 00:27:15.050 TO STOP. THE LACK OF 854 00:27:15.050 --> 00:27:16.843 UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THIS 855 00:27:16.843 --> 00:27:20.639 REALLY IS, IS ASTOUNDING. 856 00:27:21.931 --> 00:27:23.683 RICHARD: JEFFREY SAW POACHER 857 00:27:23.683 --> 00:27:24.851 TRACKS OVER THERE. 858 00:27:24.851 --> 00:27:26.019 IVAN: ANOTHER ONE? 859 00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:26.936 RICHARD: NO, IT'S THE POACHER 860 00:27:26.936 --> 00:27:27.896 TRACKS FROM THESE GUYS. 861 00:27:27.896 --> 00:27:28.897 THEY'VE PROBABLY COME TO CHECK 862 00:27:28.897 --> 00:27:30.023 WHERE THEY'VE BEEN OPERATING. 863 00:27:30.023 --> 00:27:31.191 IVAN: THERE ARE FRESH TRACKS 864 00:27:31.191 --> 00:27:32.400 WALKING PAST THE CARCASS. 865 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:33.276 THESE POACHERS ARE 866 00:27:33.276 --> 00:27:35.028 REGULARS HERE. 867 00:27:35.028 --> 00:27:36.363 >> RANGER WITH THE FORENSICS 868 00:27:36.363 --> 00:27:38.657 GUYS ARE INBOUND TO THE INITIAL 869 00:27:38.657 --> 00:27:40.533 COORDINATES YOU GUYS GAVE US. 870 00:27:40.533 --> 00:27:43.036 RICHARD: OKAY, COPIED. NOW ON 871 00:27:43.036 --> 00:27:44.746 THE TRACK. THEY'VE PICKED UP 872 00:27:44.746 --> 00:27:46.373 SOME BAGS AND STUFF THE GUYS 873 00:27:46.373 --> 00:27:47.749 HAVE DROPPED WHILE ON THE RUN. 874 00:27:47.749 --> 00:27:49.000 SO NOW THEY'RE BRINGING A POLICE 875 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:51.044 HELICOPTER OR THE FORENSIC TEAM 876 00:27:51.044 --> 00:27:53.713 TO PICK UP THE BELONGINGS. 877 00:27:53.713 --> 00:27:54.547 IVAN: UNTIL YOU GET IN 878 00:27:54.547 --> 00:27:55.548 THE MIDDLE OF THIS, YOU HAVE 879 00:27:55.548 --> 00:27:56.549 NO IDEA. 880 00:27:56.549 --> 00:27:58.259 RICHARD: AH, IT'S A WAR. 881 00:27:58.259 --> 00:28:00.720 DAILY. DAILY. 882 00:28:15.735 --> 00:28:16.736 IVAN: THIS IS THE THIRD CHOPPER 883 00:28:16.736 --> 00:28:18.363 COMING IN. AS THESE GUYS HAVE 884 00:28:18.363 --> 00:28:19.531 RUN, THEY'VE DROPPED ALL OF 885 00:28:19.531 --> 00:28:20.573 THEIR BAGS. THIS IS THE 886 00:28:20.573 --> 00:28:21.950 FORENSICS DEPARTMENT THAT ARE 887 00:28:21.950 --> 00:28:22.992 GOING TO COME AND PICK UP 888 00:28:22.992 --> 00:28:23.910 THEIR BAGS AND ANALYZE 889 00:28:23.910 --> 00:28:25.161 ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT 890 00:28:25.161 --> 00:28:27.080 THEY'VE LEFT BEHIND. 891 00:28:27.080 --> 00:28:29.082 ALL OF THIS IS AN EFFORT TO 892 00:28:29.082 --> 00:28:30.417 STOP THESE POACHERS. AND THIS 893 00:28:30.417 --> 00:28:32.085 IS THE ONLY WAY THAT WE'RE 894 00:28:32.085 --> 00:28:34.254 GOING TO DO THAT. 895 00:28:51.187 --> 00:28:53.106 IVAN: I'M IVAN CARTER. I'M IN 896 00:28:53.106 --> 00:28:53.940 KRUGER NATIONAL PARK 897 00:28:53.940 --> 00:28:55.442 INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF A 898 00:28:55.442 --> 00:28:57.068 BABY RHINO. WHILE TRACKING THE 899 00:28:57.068 --> 00:28:58.653 BABY'S MOTHER, A GROUP OF 900 00:28:58.653 --> 00:29:00.405 POACHERS WERE SPOTTED. NOW 901 00:29:00.405 --> 00:29:01.489 WITH AIR SUPPORT, A TEAM OF 902 00:29:01.489 --> 00:29:03.616 SAND PARK'S OPERATIVES ON THE 903 00:29:03.616 --> 00:29:04.784 GROUND, AND TRACKER DOGS, THE 904 00:29:04.784 --> 00:29:07.203 CHASE IS IN FULL SWING. BUT 905 00:29:07.203 --> 00:29:08.455 THE LIGHT IS FADING FAST. THE 906 00:29:08.455 --> 00:29:10.248 POACHERS ARE NEARING THE PARK'S 907 00:29:10.248 --> 00:29:11.499 BOUNDARY. IF THEY MAKE IT OVER 908 00:29:11.499 --> 00:29:12.751 THE FENCE, THEY WILL MELT INTO 909 00:29:12.751 --> 00:29:15.128 THE COMMUNITY. WE SEEM TO BE 910 00:29:15.128 --> 00:29:16.796 MAKING GROUND, AS THE POACHERS 911 00:29:16.796 --> 00:29:18.089 HAVE JETTISONED THEIR PERSONAL 912 00:29:18.089 --> 00:29:19.257 EFFECTS IN AN ATTEMPT TO BE 913 00:29:19.257 --> 00:29:21.176 LIGHTER ON THEIR FEET. THE 914 00:29:21.176 --> 00:29:22.051 TASK FORCE JUST FOUND A BAG 915 00:29:22.051 --> 00:29:24.429 THAT THE POACHERS DROPPED. 916 00:29:27.682 --> 00:29:29.642 ONE OF OUR OWN GUYS HAS COME 917 00:29:29.642 --> 00:29:30.685 BACK WITH THE BAG. HE'S GOING 918 00:29:30.685 --> 00:29:32.479 TO HAND THEM OVER. AND THEN 919 00:29:32.479 --> 00:29:33.855 THAT'S GOING TO GO TO 920 00:29:33.855 --> 00:29:35.148 FORENSICS AND GET IT ANALYZED 921 00:29:35.148 --> 00:29:37.984 AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. 922 00:29:39.736 --> 00:29:40.987 THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK FOR ANY 923 00:29:40.987 --> 00:29:42.405 SIGN OF WHERE THESE GUYS MIGHT 924 00:29:42.405 --> 00:29:43.364 HAVE COME FROM. WHETHER 925 00:29:43.364 --> 00:29:44.157 THEY'VE COME FROM MOZAMBIQUE, 926 00:29:44.157 --> 00:29:45.200 WHETHER THEY'VE COME FROM THE 927 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:46.826 WESTERN PART OF SOUTH AFRICA, 928 00:29:46.826 --> 00:29:48.536 ANY CLUES THAT THEY CAN GET, 929 00:29:48.536 --> 00:29:49.996 THEN THEY CAN FEED THAT BACK 930 00:29:49.996 --> 00:29:51.414 INTO CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AND 931 00:29:51.414 --> 00:29:52.749 WE CAN GET A GOOD IDEA OF WHERE 932 00:29:52.749 --> 00:29:55.877 THESE GUYS HAVE COME FROM. 933 00:29:55.877 --> 00:29:57.337 RICHARD HANDS OVER THE BAG TO 934 00:29:57.337 --> 00:29:58.713 THE FORENSICS TEAM. HE'S JUST 935 00:29:58.713 --> 00:30:00.256 RECEIVED A PROGRESS UPDATE ON 936 00:30:00.256 --> 00:30:01.841 THE POACHERS. 937 00:30:01.841 --> 00:30:03.259 RICHARD: THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP 938 00:30:03.259 --> 00:30:04.511 GOING AND THEY COULD GO OUT. 939 00:30:04.511 --> 00:30:05.845 YOU SEE, THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT 940 00:30:05.845 --> 00:30:06.888 THOSE FREE-RUNNING FOXHOUNDS 941 00:30:06.888 --> 00:30:08.223 FOR. THE DOG SEES VERY WELL AT 942 00:30:08.223 --> 00:30:09.390 NIGHT, SO THEY CARRY ON RUNNING 943 00:30:09.390 --> 00:30:10.600 ON THE TRACK. THOSE CHOPPERS 944 00:30:10.600 --> 00:30:11.893 ARE NIGHT-VISION CAPABLE. 945 00:30:11.893 --> 00:30:13.686 SO THE FOLLOW-UP WILL GO 946 00:30:13.686 --> 00:30:16.981 FROM DAY TO DARK. 947 00:30:16.981 --> 00:30:18.358 IVAN: WE'RE IN THE BORDER 948 00:30:18.358 --> 00:30:19.484 REGION OF KRUGER, CLOSE TO THE 949 00:30:19.484 --> 00:30:21.736 FENCE. IF THE POACHERS SCALE 950 00:30:21.736 --> 00:30:22.862 THE FENCE BEFORE WE CAN CATCH 951 00:30:22.862 --> 00:30:24.697 THEM, OUR CHANCES TO APPREHEND 952 00:30:24.697 --> 00:30:26.366 THEM ARE SLIM. THE SUN IS 953 00:30:26.366 --> 00:30:27.575 SETTING. WE'RE RUNNING OUT 954 00:30:27.575 --> 00:30:30.411 OF DAYLIGHT. 955 00:30:30.411 --> 00:30:31.871 THE CHOPPERS ARE CARRYING INTO 956 00:30:31.871 --> 00:30:32.872 THE EVENING HERE. THE DOGS ARE 957 00:30:32.872 --> 00:30:34.123 STILL ON THEIR TRAIL. THIS IS 958 00:30:34.123 --> 00:30:35.625 NOT OVER YET. 959 00:30:35.625 --> 00:30:37.460 WE LEAVE THE TEAM ON THE TRACKS, 960 00:30:37.460 --> 00:30:38.962 HIGHLY COMPETENT AND EFFICIENT. 961 00:30:38.962 --> 00:30:40.421 THERE'S NOTHING ELSE 962 00:30:40.421 --> 00:30:42.090 WE CAN DO TO HELP HERE. 963 00:30:42.090 --> 00:30:43.258 WE MUST GET BACK TO WHAT WE 964 00:30:43.258 --> 00:30:45.760 ORIGINALLY SET OUT TO DO. 965 00:30:52.100 --> 00:30:54.060 EVERY DAY COUNTLESS LIVES ARE 966 00:30:54.060 --> 00:30:56.479 LOST TO A WAR FASHIONED PURELY 967 00:30:56.479 --> 00:30:58.064 OUT OF MYTHICAL BELIEF. AND 968 00:30:58.064 --> 00:30:59.941 HERE IN SOUTH AFRICA THAT WAR 969 00:30:59.941 --> 00:31:01.526 IS RAGING. RHINOS ARE AT THE 970 00:31:01.526 --> 00:31:03.194 CENTER OF IT ALL. THEIR HORNS 971 00:31:03.194 --> 00:31:04.988 ARE THEIR MOST FATAL ASSET. 972 00:31:04.988 --> 00:31:07.407 TRADED THROUGH MANY ASIAN 973 00:31:07.407 --> 00:31:08.783 COUNTRIES, THE RHINO HORN IS 974 00:31:08.783 --> 00:31:10.618 SAID TO BE A STATUS SYMBOL FOR 975 00:31:10.618 --> 00:31:12.412 THE WEALTHY AND FOR THE ELITE. 976 00:31:12.412 --> 00:31:13.746 I KNOW WHO IS FIGHTING THIS 977 00:31:13.746 --> 00:31:15.164 WAR--THE BRAVE 978 00:31:15.164 --> 00:31:16.749 CONSERVATIONISTS, THE RANGERS, 979 00:31:16.749 --> 00:31:18.126 AND THE VETS. AND I KNOW HOW 980 00:31:18.126 --> 00:31:19.919 THEY'RE FIGHTING IT--WITH 981 00:31:19.919 --> 00:31:21.671 MICROCHIPS TRACKING THE HORNS, 982 00:31:21.671 --> 00:31:22.881 AND MILITARY TRAINED 983 00:31:22.881 --> 00:31:24.048 PERSONNEL ON BOTH THE GROUND 984 00:31:24.048 --> 00:31:25.925 AND IN THE AIR. 985 00:31:27.927 --> 00:31:30.263 NOW THE QUESTION REMAINS, IS 986 00:31:30.263 --> 00:31:31.264 THAT ENOUGH TO STOP THE 987 00:31:31.264 --> 00:31:34.559 POACHING EPIDEMIC? 988 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:35.894 WHAT ADDITIONAL EFFORTS ARE 989 00:31:35.894 --> 00:31:37.478 NEEDED IN ORDER TO BRING THIS 990 00:31:37.478 --> 00:31:39.314 DEADLY WAR TO AN END? 991 00:31:39.314 --> 00:31:40.565 WILL THERE BE A FUTURE 992 00:31:40.565 --> 00:31:42.025 FOR THE RHINOS? 993 00:31:42.025 --> 00:31:43.776 OR WILL THE STORY END IN A 994 00:31:43.776 --> 00:31:45.904 GRIM CONCLUSION? 995 00:31:45.904 --> 00:31:47.614 I CONTINUE MY SEARCH FOR 996 00:31:47.614 --> 00:31:49.157 ANSWERS HERE IN THE KRUGER 997 00:31:49.157 --> 00:31:50.992 NATIONAL PARK, WHERE WE'VE BEEN 998 00:31:50.992 --> 00:31:52.619 FOLLOWING THE TRACKS OF A 999 00:31:52.619 --> 00:31:54.120 MOTHER WHOM WE SUSPECT 1000 00:31:54.120 --> 00:31:58.124 MAY BE WOUNDED. 1001 00:31:58.124 --> 00:31:59.667 I'VE ASKED LIVINGSTON TO HELP 1002 00:31:59.667 --> 00:32:00.960 LOCATE HER. HE IS A MAN WHO 1003 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:02.211 HAS STOOD RIGHT NEXT TO ME 1004 00:32:02.211 --> 00:32:03.671 THROUGH SOME HAIR-RAISING 1005 00:32:03.671 --> 00:32:04.839 MOMENTS OVER THE YEARS AND 1006 00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:05.882 WHOSE TRACKING SKILLS ARE 1007 00:32:05.882 --> 00:32:08.760 EXCEPTIONAL. GREAT TRACKERS 1008 00:32:08.760 --> 00:32:09.969 GATHER FAR MORE INFORMATION 1009 00:32:09.969 --> 00:32:11.387 THAN MEET THE EYE. FROM A 1010 00:32:11.387 --> 00:32:12.972 SINGLE TRACK THEY CAN TELL THE 1011 00:32:12.972 --> 00:32:14.641 AGE OF THE TRACK, THE AGE OF 1012 00:32:14.641 --> 00:32:15.975 THE ANIMAL, AND OFTEN WHAT IT'S 1013 00:32:15.975 --> 00:32:18.227 LIKELY TO DO NEXT. 1014 00:32:18.227 --> 00:32:19.812 HAVING A TRACKER LIKE LIVEY IS 1015 00:32:19.812 --> 00:32:21.397 ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL. I CAN SEE 1016 00:32:21.397 --> 00:32:22.565 THE ODD TRACK HERE, BUT HE'S 1017 00:32:22.565 --> 00:32:24.484 FOLLOWING IT LIKE IT'S BEEN 1018 00:32:24.484 --> 00:32:26.194 DRAWN IN PAINT ON THE GROUND. 1019 00:32:26.194 --> 00:32:27.362 IT'S UNBELIEVABLE JUST WATCHING 1020 00:32:27.362 --> 00:32:29.322 HIM WORK. 1021 00:32:29.322 --> 00:32:30.365 BEFORE I CAN CALL RICHARD AND 1022 00:32:30.365 --> 00:32:32.408 MOBILIZE THE VET TEAM, I NEED 1023 00:32:32.408 --> 00:32:34.577 TO PHYSICALLY SEE THIS RHINO. 1024 00:32:34.577 --> 00:32:35.620 IT'S EATING HERE. 1025 00:32:35.620 --> 00:32:37.622 LIVINGSTON: YEAH, IT'S EATING. 1026 00:32:37.622 --> 00:32:39.207 IVAN: YOU CAN SEE HOW IT'S 1027 00:32:39.207 --> 00:32:41.668 SNIPPED OFF THESE GRASS STALKS. 1028 00:32:41.668 --> 00:32:42.585 LOOK HERE. THEY LOOK LIKE 1029 00:32:42.585 --> 00:32:43.670 THEY'VE BEEN CUT WITH A PAIR OF 1030 00:32:43.670 --> 00:32:45.046 SCISSORS. THAT'S FROM THE 1031 00:32:45.046 --> 00:32:46.589 RHINO GRAZING HERE AS HE'S 1032 00:32:46.589 --> 00:32:48.591 WALKED THROUGH. IT'S ALMOST CUT 1033 00:32:48.591 --> 00:32:50.635 IT LIKE A LAWN. 1034 00:32:57.809 --> 00:32:59.936 THIS IS A RHINO THAT HAS RUBBED 1035 00:32:59.936 --> 00:33:01.938 UP AGAINST HERE YESTERDAY. AND 1036 00:33:01.938 --> 00:33:03.856 AS TOUGH AS THE TRACKING IS 1037 00:33:03.856 --> 00:33:05.733 RIGHT NOW, THE LAST THING WE 1038 00:33:05.733 --> 00:33:07.110 NEED IS OTHER RHINO TRACKS 1039 00:33:07.110 --> 00:33:08.319 COMING IN AND CONFUSING THE 1040 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:10.655 TRACK THAT WE'VE BEEN ON. 1041 00:33:10.655 --> 00:33:12.365 THE GROUND IS HARD, MAKING IT 1042 00:33:12.365 --> 00:33:13.658 ALL THE MORE DIFFICULT TO 1043 00:33:13.658 --> 00:33:14.784 IDENTIFY THE TRACKS. BUT 1044 00:33:14.784 --> 00:33:15.910 WITH LIVEY'S KEEN EYE, 1045 00:33:15.910 --> 00:33:18.997 WE MAKE PROGRESS. 1046 00:33:18.997 --> 00:33:20.832 HERE, LIVEY, LOOK HERE. 1047 00:33:24.794 --> 00:33:26.754 I CAN'T SEE ANY BULLET HOLES, 1048 00:33:26.754 --> 00:33:27.922 BUT, YOU KNOW, THESE RHINOS HAVE 1049 00:33:27.922 --> 00:33:29.215 GOT SUCH THICK SKIN, IT ONLY 1050 00:33:29.215 --> 00:33:31.050 TAKES ROLLING IN ONE WALLOW AND 1051 00:33:31.050 --> 00:33:33.302 IT CAN CLOSE UP A BULLET HOLE. 1052 00:33:33.302 --> 00:33:34.721 WE'RE PRETTY SECURE THAT THIS 1053 00:33:34.721 --> 00:33:35.638 IS THE SAME RHINO THAT WE'RE 1054 00:33:35.638 --> 00:33:36.681 FOLLOWING. THESE ARE THE 1055 00:33:36.681 --> 00:33:37.640 TRACKS THAT WE LEFT YESTERDAY 1056 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:38.891 EVENING. WE'VE JUST GOT TO NOW 1057 00:33:38.891 --> 00:33:40.309 MAKE SURE THAT WE GET FAR 1058 00:33:40.309 --> 00:33:41.185 ENOUGH AWAY SO THAT I CAN TALK 1059 00:33:41.185 --> 00:33:42.562 FREELY TO RICHARD WITHOUT 1060 00:33:42.562 --> 00:33:43.604 DISTURBING IT. LET'S CARRY ON 1061 00:33:43.604 --> 00:33:45.565 OUT THIS WAY. EVERY SIGN TELLS 1062 00:33:45.565 --> 00:33:47.108 US THIS IS THE MOTHER. SHE 1063 00:33:47.108 --> 00:33:48.693 LOOKS OKAY, BUT A BULLET HOLE IS 1064 00:33:48.693 --> 00:33:50.445 SMALL AND CAN EASILY BE HIDDEN 1065 00:33:50.445 --> 00:33:51.988 ON THE HUGE HIDE OF THIS 1066 00:33:51.988 --> 00:33:53.573 ANIMAL. I BACK OUT AND CALL ON 1067 00:33:53.573 --> 00:33:56.159 THE RADIO TO RICHARD. 1068 00:34:00.997 --> 00:34:02.582 CONTRACTED WILDLIFE 1069 00:34:02.582 --> 00:34:03.624 VETERINARIANS, AMONG THE 1070 00:34:03.624 --> 00:34:04.834 MOST EXPERIENCED VETS IN THE 1071 00:34:04.834 --> 00:34:08.421 WORLD, ARE ON THE WAY. THE VET, 1072 00:34:08.421 --> 00:34:11.466 PETER ROGERS, IS WELL VERSED IN 1073 00:34:11.466 --> 00:34:13.468 RHINO DARTING. HE HAS BEEN 1074 00:34:13.468 --> 00:34:18.097 STANDING BY FOR OUR CALL. 1075 00:34:18.097 --> 00:34:19.599 AS THEY ARRIVE, I HASTILY 1076 00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:20.892 EXPLAIN HER LOCATION AND 1077 00:34:20.892 --> 00:34:22.351 DISTINGUISHING FEATURES. 1078 00:34:22.351 --> 00:34:24.228 [INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION] 1079 00:34:24.228 --> 00:34:25.730 IVAN: YEAH, THIS RHINO IS 1080 00:34:25.730 --> 00:34:27.398 RIGHT DOWN THERE IN THE VALLEY. 1081 00:34:27.398 --> 00:34:28.566 AS THE CHOPPER LOCATES THE 1082 00:34:28.566 --> 00:34:29.817 RHINO, SHE RUNS AND IS 1083 00:34:29.817 --> 00:34:31.360 IMMEDIATELY JOINED BY TWO 1084 00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:32.862 OTHERS. THE STAKES ARE HIGH. 1085 00:34:32.862 --> 00:34:33.905 IF WE DON'T DART THE CORRECT 1086 00:34:33.905 --> 00:34:35.364 RHINO, THIS WILL ALL BE 1087 00:34:35.364 --> 00:34:37.450 FOR NOTHING. 1088 00:34:43.915 --> 00:34:46.084 THE CHOPPER IS GOING IN LOW AND 1089 00:34:46.084 --> 00:34:47.543 THE DART IS ABOUT TO BE 1090 00:34:47.543 --> 00:34:48.795 DEPLOYED. NOW IS PROBABLY THE 1091 00:34:48.795 --> 00:34:50.046 MOST CRUCIAL SEVEN MINUTES OF 1092 00:34:50.046 --> 00:34:51.798 THE WHOLE AFFAIR. IF THAT DART 1093 00:34:51.798 --> 00:34:52.799 GOES IN PROPERLY, YOU'VE GOT 1094 00:34:52.799 --> 00:34:54.050 ABOUT SEVEN MINUTES UNTIL THE 1095 00:34:54.050 --> 00:34:56.636 RHINO GOES DOWN. 1096 00:34:56.636 --> 00:34:58.596 [MUSIC] 1097 00:35:09.732 --> 00:35:11.692 THE DART HITS. THERE'S NO 1098 00:35:11.692 --> 00:35:13.569 GOING BACK FROM HERE. IF THE 1099 00:35:13.569 --> 00:35:15.154 MOTHER RHINO IS WOUNDED, SHE'LL 1100 00:35:15.154 --> 00:35:16.948 HAVE THE VERY BEST ON HAND TO 1101 00:35:16.948 --> 00:35:18.616 GIVE HER MEDICAL ATTENTION. 1102 00:35:18.616 --> 00:35:20.201 THIS IS PERFECT. THE RHINO IS 1103 00:35:20.201 --> 00:35:21.536 COMING INTO THE OPEN, WHICH IS 1104 00:35:21.536 --> 00:35:22.870 CRUCIAL FOR BEING ABLE TO GET 1105 00:35:22.870 --> 00:35:24.163 UP TO IT QUICKLY. THE VERY 1106 00:35:24.163 --> 00:35:25.331 FIRST THING THAT HAPPENS ONCE 1107 00:35:25.331 --> 00:35:27.250 IT GOES DOWN, I'LL RUN IN WITH 1108 00:35:27.250 --> 00:35:28.543 A RAG AND WE'LL CLOSE OVER ITS 1109 00:35:28.543 --> 00:35:30.169 EYES, BECAUSE A PART OF THE 1110 00:35:30.169 --> 00:35:31.170 EFFECT OF THE DRUG IS THAT 1111 00:35:31.170 --> 00:35:32.130 IT WILL DILATE THE PUPILS 1112 00:35:32.130 --> 00:35:34.549 OF THIS RHINO. 1113 00:35:39.345 --> 00:35:40.930 WE'VE JUST GOT TO WATCH FOR THE 1114 00:35:40.930 --> 00:35:42.348 SIGNS WHETHER THE DART HAS 1115 00:35:42.348 --> 00:35:43.516 ACTUALLY TAKEN EFFECT. ITS 1116 00:35:43.516 --> 00:35:44.976 HEAD IS STARTING TO DROP. YOU 1117 00:35:44.976 --> 00:35:46.853 CAN SEE THE BRIGHT ORANGE DART 1118 00:35:46.853 --> 00:35:48.437 IN ITS RUMP. 1119 00:35:52.942 --> 00:35:54.777 YOU CAN SEE THE RHINO'S FRONT 1120 00:35:54.777 --> 00:35:55.778 FEET. IT'S STARTING TO DO THAT 1121 00:35:55.778 --> 00:35:57.864 HIGH STEP. THAT HIGH STEP IS 1122 00:35:57.864 --> 00:35:59.282 INDICATIVE THAT THE DART HAS 1123 00:35:59.282 --> 00:36:01.200 TAKEN PROPERLY. NOW WE'VE JUST 1124 00:36:01.200 --> 00:36:02.702 GOT TO BE CAREFUL THAT THE REST 1125 00:36:02.702 --> 00:36:03.828 OF THE HERD DOESN'T GET IN THE 1126 00:36:03.828 --> 00:36:05.454 WAY OF THIS. 1127 00:36:05.454 --> 00:36:07.373 [MUSIC] 1128 00:36:12.962 --> 00:36:14.964 YOU CAN SEE THAT HIGH STEP. 1129 00:36:14.964 --> 00:36:16.132 THIS RHINO IS VERY CLOSE TO 1130 00:36:16.132 --> 00:36:18.885 GOING DOWN. 1131 00:36:18.885 --> 00:36:20.136 SHE'S ABOUT TO GO DOWN. WE'VE 1132 00:36:20.136 --> 00:36:21.137 JUST GOT TO LOOK AT BOTH SIDES 1133 00:36:21.137 --> 00:36:22.638 VERY CAREFULLY. JUST GOT TO 1134 00:36:22.638 --> 00:36:23.973 GET AROUND, TRY AND MINIMIZE 1135 00:36:23.973 --> 00:36:25.141 THE STRESS OF THIS WHOLE 1136 00:36:25.141 --> 00:36:27.143 SITUATION. 1137 00:36:29.312 --> 00:36:31.105 OKAY, YOU CAN SEE HER EYES ARE 1138 00:36:31.105 --> 00:36:32.231 REALLY, REALLY WIDE. YOU CAN 1139 00:36:32.231 --> 00:36:35.401 SEE THE DART IN HER RUMP THERE. 1140 00:36:41.699 --> 00:36:44.577 THERE WE GO. OKAY. RHINO DOWN. 1141 00:36:44.577 --> 00:36:45.578 SHE'S DOWN, BUT IS SHE WOUNDED? 1142 00:36:54.253 --> 00:36:55.129 "CARTER'S WAR" WOULD LIKE TO 1143 00:36:55.129 --> 00:36:56.631 THANK THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE AND 1144 00:36:56.631 --> 00:36:58.049 ORGANIZATIONS. WITHOUT THEIR 1145 00:36:58.049 --> 00:37:00.259 HELP, THIS PROGRAM WOULD NOT 1146 00:37:00.259 --> 00:37:02.345 BE POSSIBLE. 1147 00:37:03.679 --> 00:37:06.641 I'M IVAN CARTER. ON MY JOURNEY 1148 00:37:06.641 --> 00:37:08.059 I'VE COME ACROSS A DEAD BABY 1149 00:37:08.059 --> 00:37:09.435 RHINO KILLED BY POACHERS IN THE 1150 00:37:09.435 --> 00:37:11.103 KRUGER NATIONAL PARK. WE 1151 00:37:11.103 --> 00:37:12.855 CONCLUDED THAT EIGHT SHOTS WERE 1152 00:37:12.855 --> 00:37:14.440 FIRED, BUT ONLY ONE BULLET WAS 1153 00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:16.734 FOUND IN THE YOUNG RHINO. FOR 1154 00:37:16.734 --> 00:37:17.902 TWO DAYS WE'VE BEEN TRACKING 1155 00:37:17.902 --> 00:37:19.570 THE MOTHER, AND THIS MORNING WE 1156 00:37:19.570 --> 00:37:21.822 SAW HER FOR THE FIRST TIME. 1157 00:37:21.822 --> 00:37:23.032 THE VETERINARY HELICOPTER 1158 00:37:23.032 --> 00:37:23.908 IS HERE. AND THE DART 1159 00:37:23.908 --> 00:37:25.326 HAS BEEN FIRED. 1160 00:37:29.330 --> 00:37:30.915 THE RHINO IS DOWN. JUST GIVE 1161 00:37:30.915 --> 00:37:33.626 HER A COUPLE MORE MINUTES. 1162 00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:43.261 HERE WE GO. OKAY. OKAY. JUST 1163 00:37:43.261 --> 00:37:44.929 HAVE A LOOK ON THAT SIDE, RICH. 1164 00:37:44.929 --> 00:37:46.013 I'M NOT SEEING ANY WOUNDS AT 1165 00:37:46.013 --> 00:37:47.890 ALL ON THIS SIDE. 1166 00:37:52.353 --> 00:37:55.106 NOTHING ON THAT SIDE, EH, RICH? 1167 00:37:55.106 --> 00:37:56.190 RICHARD: I DON'T SEE ANYTHING. 1168 00:37:56.190 --> 00:37:57.066 IVAN: FANTASTIC. THERE'S 1169 00:37:57.066 --> 00:37:57.817 NOTHING ON THE FRONT, JUST THE 1170 00:37:57.817 --> 00:38:00.361 NORMAL SCARS. THERE'S NOTHING 1171 00:38:00.361 --> 00:38:02.071 WRONG WITH THIS RHINO AT ALL, 1172 00:38:02.071 --> 00:38:03.447 WHICH IS FANTASTIC NEWS. 1173 00:38:03.447 --> 00:38:05.992 THIS IS AWESOME. 1174 00:38:05.992 --> 00:38:06.909 NOW THE VETS HAVE GOT TO WORK 1175 00:38:06.909 --> 00:38:07.910 REALLY, REALLY QUICKLY. WE'VE 1176 00:38:07.910 --> 00:38:09.412 GOT ABOUT 15 MINUTES BEFORE 1177 00:38:09.412 --> 00:38:10.830 THIS RHINO HAS TO GET BACK UP 1178 00:38:10.830 --> 00:38:12.123 ON ITS FEET. YOU CAN SEE THE 1179 00:38:12.123 --> 00:38:13.499 SHAKING. THE SHAKING IS JUST 1180 00:38:13.499 --> 00:38:15.334 THE NORMAL EFFECTS OF THE DRUG. 1181 00:38:15.334 --> 00:38:16.877 WE'RE GOING TO JUST TRY AND 1182 00:38:16.877 --> 00:38:17.920 STAND HER UP ON THE BRISKET 1183 00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:18.921 WHICH IS A LOT MORE HEALTHY FOR 1184 00:38:18.921 --> 00:38:20.631 THE RHINO WITH REGARD TO FLUIDS 1185 00:38:20.631 --> 00:38:22.633 IN ITS LUNGS AND THE 1186 00:38:22.633 --> 00:38:24.635 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 1187 00:38:24.635 --> 00:38:25.720 >> ONE, TWO, THREE. 1188 00:38:25.720 --> 00:38:26.971 IVAN: OKAY. 1189 00:38:26.971 --> 00:38:28.806 [MUSIC] 1190 00:38:36.564 --> 00:38:38.232 THIS RHINO IS COMPLETELY 1191 00:38:38.232 --> 00:38:39.734 UNWOUNDED. THIS IS A GREAT 1192 00:38:39.734 --> 00:38:41.235 MOMENT RIGHT HERE. BUT WE'RE 1193 00:38:41.235 --> 00:38:42.403 GOING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 1194 00:38:42.403 --> 00:38:43.571 EVERYTHING. WHAT WE'RE ALSO 1195 00:38:43.571 --> 00:38:44.697 GOING TO DO IS SOME 1196 00:38:44.697 --> 00:38:45.656 TRANSPONDERS ARE GOING TO BE 1197 00:38:45.656 --> 00:38:46.657 PUT IN THE HORNS, DO ALL OF 1198 00:38:46.657 --> 00:38:47.825 THE MEASUREMENTS ON THIS 1199 00:38:47.825 --> 00:38:48.826 PARTICULAR RHINO, AND WE'RE 1200 00:38:48.826 --> 00:38:49.994 GOING TO NOTCH ITS EARS. 1201 00:38:49.994 --> 00:38:50.953 THAT MEANS IT'S GOING 1202 00:38:50.953 --> 00:38:53.414 TO HAVE A VISUAL SIGNATURE. 1203 00:38:53.414 --> 00:38:54.540 GETTING SOME OXYGEN IN. YOU 1204 00:38:54.540 --> 00:38:55.750 CAN IMAGINE AN ANIMAL THIS 1205 00:38:55.750 --> 00:38:57.168 VALUABLE, NOT JUST THIS 1206 00:38:57.168 --> 00:38:58.669 VALUABLE IN DOLLARS TERMS, BUT 1207 00:38:58.669 --> 00:38:59.920 THIS VALUABLE TO THE ENTIRE 1208 00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:01.589 ECOSYSTEM. THERE'S A LOT OF 1209 00:39:01.589 --> 00:39:02.840 PRESSURE ON THE VETS TO MAKE 1210 00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:03.841 SURE THIS ALL GOES WELL. 1211 00:39:03.841 --> 00:39:05.676 THERE'S NO VISIBLE WOUND. 1212 00:39:05.676 --> 00:39:07.261 A FLOOD OF EMOTION AND ELATION 1213 00:39:07.261 --> 00:39:08.721 TAKE OVER. IT'S A GLIMMER OF 1214 00:39:08.721 --> 00:39:12.350 HOPE IN A GRIM CIRCUMSTANCE. 1215 00:39:12.350 --> 00:39:14.185 SO AS YOU CAN SEE, A GIANT 1216 00:39:14.185 --> 00:39:15.186 AMOUNT OF EFFORT GOING INTO THE 1217 00:39:15.186 --> 00:39:16.937 OVERALL WELFARE OF THIS ANIMAL. 1218 00:39:16.937 --> 00:39:18.105 NOT ONLY IN THE FACT THAT WE'VE 1219 00:39:18.105 --> 00:39:19.440 SPENT ALL OF THIS TIME LOOKING 1220 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:21.108 FOR THIS ANIMAL, BUT NOW THAT 1221 00:39:21.108 --> 00:39:22.234 IT'S DOWN AND WE'VE REALIZED 1222 00:39:22.234 --> 00:39:24.195 THAT IT'S TOTALLY UNWOUNDED, 1223 00:39:24.195 --> 00:39:25.279 WE'RE TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE OF 1224 00:39:25.279 --> 00:39:26.197 ALL OF THIS TO MAKE SURE THAT 1225 00:39:26.197 --> 00:39:27.782 THERE'S AS MUCH DATA GATHERED 1226 00:39:27.782 --> 00:39:29.158 FROM THIS PARTICULAR SCENARIO 1227 00:39:29.158 --> 00:39:30.242 AS POSSIBLE. IT'S GOING TO GO 1228 00:39:30.242 --> 00:39:31.410 INTO A DATABASE AND IT'S GOING 1229 00:39:31.410 --> 00:39:33.245 TO LEAD INTO THE CONSERVATION 1230 00:39:33.245 --> 00:39:36.415 OF THIS AS A SPECIES. 1231 00:39:36.415 --> 00:39:38.542 YOU KNOW, RICHARD, SAD AS IT IS 1232 00:39:38.542 --> 00:39:39.585 TO LOSE A CALF LIKE THAT, JUST 1233 00:39:39.585 --> 00:39:41.420 KNOWING THAT THE PRIME BREEDING 1234 00:39:41.420 --> 00:39:43.172 ADULT IS OKAY, I MEAN THIS IS 1235 00:39:43.172 --> 00:39:44.840 THE MOST IMPORTANT ASSET TO THE 1236 00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:46.217 WHOLE SYSTEM, TO THE WILDLIFE 1237 00:39:46.217 --> 00:39:47.385 AS A WHOLE, YOUR PRIME BREEDING 1238 00:39:47.385 --> 00:39:48.469 ADULTS ISN'T IT, EH? 1239 00:39:48.469 --> 00:39:50.471 PARTICULARLY A COW. 1240 00:39:50.471 --> 00:39:52.139 THE VETS ADMINISTER THE 1241 00:39:52.139 --> 00:39:53.933 ANTIDOTE FOR THE M99 AND IT 1242 00:39:53.933 --> 00:39:56.519 FLOWS THROUGH HER VEINS. 1243 00:40:02.233 --> 00:40:04.443 THE EARS ARE STARTING TO FLICK 1244 00:40:04.443 --> 00:40:05.653 A LITTLE BIT. SEE HOW SHE'S 1245 00:40:05.653 --> 00:40:06.654 STARTING TO GET A BIT MORE 1246 00:40:06.654 --> 00:40:08.155 MOVEMENT IN HER EARS. AND AS 1247 00:40:08.155 --> 00:40:09.782 SHE STARTS GETTING AWAY, WE'RE 1248 00:40:09.782 --> 00:40:10.950 GOING TO BACK OFF AND GET ON 1249 00:40:10.950 --> 00:40:12.076 THIS VEHICLE, BECAUSE SHE COULD 1250 00:40:12.076 --> 00:40:14.328 GET UP IN A REALLY ROUGH MOOD. 1251 00:40:14.328 --> 00:40:15.746 SHE'S HAD A LOT OF STRESS. 1252 00:40:15.746 --> 00:40:16.997 SHE'S GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF 1253 00:40:16.997 --> 00:40:18.916 HUMAN SMELL AROUND HER. 1254 00:40:18.916 --> 00:40:20.126 HELICOPTER CHASED HER IN HER 1255 00:40:20.126 --> 00:40:21.627 LAST MEMORY, SO WE JUST WANT TO 1256 00:40:21.627 --> 00:40:23.337 GET OUT OF HER WAY. BUT WHAT 1257 00:40:23.337 --> 00:40:24.588 A FANTASTIC -- 1258 00:40:24.588 --> 00:40:26.966 HEY, IT'S AWESOME, EH? 1259 00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:34.014 AS THE RHINO STANDS UP, FOR A 1260 00:40:34.014 --> 00:40:35.349 BRIEF MOMENT, BOTH RICHARD AND 1261 00:40:35.349 --> 00:40:38.352 I FORGET THE WAR. WE FORGET 1262 00:40:38.352 --> 00:40:39.937 THE DEATH, THE FACES HACKED 1263 00:40:39.937 --> 00:40:41.605 OFF, WE FORGET THE BLOOD AND 1264 00:40:41.605 --> 00:40:43.607 THE HORROR, AND WE BASK IN THE 1265 00:40:43.607 --> 00:40:46.777 JOY OF THE MOMENT. A MOMENT 1266 00:40:46.777 --> 00:40:48.112 WHERE THIS RHINO TAKES HER 1267 00:40:48.112 --> 00:40:49.697 FIRST UNSTEADY STEPS INTO THE 1268 00:40:49.697 --> 00:40:51.949 REST OF HER LIFE. 1269 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:56.620 THE VETS HAVE TAKEN THE 1270 00:40:56.620 --> 00:40:58.122 OPPORTUNITY TO FIT HER HORN 1271 00:40:58.122 --> 00:40:59.206 WITH MICROCHIPS IN CASE SHE 1272 00:40:59.206 --> 00:41:01.000 EVER FALLS PREY TO THOSE WHO 1273 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:03.752 WOULD SELL HER HORN FOR MONEY. 1274 00:41:06.589 --> 00:41:08.632 THE RHINO WAR IS REAL, FOUGHT 1275 00:41:08.632 --> 00:41:10.593 ON ONE SIDE BY BULLETS AND 1276 00:41:10.593 --> 00:41:12.136 VIOLENT DEATH IN THE NAME OF 1277 00:41:12.136 --> 00:41:14.597 FAST MONEY, DRIVEN BY A MYTH, 1278 00:41:14.597 --> 00:41:16.098 THE OTHER SIDE MOTIVATED BY 1279 00:41:16.098 --> 00:41:20.144 PASSION AND CONSERVATION. 1280 00:41:20.144 --> 00:41:22.062 SADLY, TO MOST PEOPLE, RHINO ARE 1281 00:41:22.062 --> 00:41:23.939 JUST NUMBERS. THEY'RE LIVE 1282 00:41:23.939 --> 00:41:27.067 STATISTICS. IT MAY BE A GRIM 1283 00:41:27.067 --> 00:41:28.903 CONCLUSION TO THIS JOURNEY, 1284 00:41:28.903 --> 00:41:30.404 BUT THIS IS THE REALITY OF 1285 00:41:30.404 --> 00:41:31.614 THE RHINO WAR, AND IT 1286 00:41:31.614 --> 00:41:33.657 HAPPENS EVERY DAY. 1287 00:41:44.585 --> 00:41:46.086 THE PEOPLE ON THE FRONT LINES 1288 00:41:46.086 --> 00:41:48.088 FIGHTING THIS WAR, WHO WORK SO 1289 00:41:48.088 --> 00:41:49.340 PASSIONATELY AND DILIGENTLY 1290 00:41:49.340 --> 00:41:52.426 EVERY DAY, THEY NEED SUPPORT. 1291 00:41:52.426 --> 00:41:55.596 MY SUPPORT. YOUR SUPPORT. 1292 00:41:55.596 --> 00:41:57.348 THEY'RE FIGHTING A WAR, AND WITH 1293 00:41:57.348 --> 00:41:58.599 OUR HELP WILL BE ABLE TO DO IT 1294 00:41:58.599 --> 00:42:01.227 EVER MORE EFFICIENTLY. 1295 00:42:01.227 --> 00:42:04.063 I TRULY BELIEVE THERE IS HOPE.