0:00:02 > 0:00:05This programme contains very strong language
0:00:05 > 0:00:08and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33WHISPERED: OK, just get comfortable and get ready.
0:00:33 > 0:00:34Take your time.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38And aim just to the right leg of the feeder, OK?
0:00:38 > 0:00:41You can wait if you want, but that's a shelter shot out there.
0:00:47 > 0:00:48GUNSHOT
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Ho-ho! You put him down, son!
0:00:51 > 0:00:52Where's that spike?
0:00:54 > 0:00:56- Oh, he's getting up, Dad.- He's not going anywhere, don't worry.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01GUNSHOT
0:01:01 > 0:01:04- You killed the doe.- Off the spike.
0:01:04 > 0:01:05- Oh.- OK, let's go.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07Hold that.
0:01:07 > 0:01:08Yes!
0:01:11 > 0:01:12Hold this gun like this.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17- How's that?- Feels good. - I need the head up like this, OK?
0:01:21 > 0:01:24- Cos, if it's young, it doesn't look great.- Let's try that!
0:01:24 > 0:01:27OK. Oh, that's what we want right there.
0:01:27 > 0:01:28Smile!
0:01:28 > 0:01:29First trophy buck.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33Like this.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35One more, just smile. We're done.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40OK.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42As they say, that's history.
0:01:42 > 0:01:43No more doe and spike culling for you.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45You're onto the big trophies.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47HE LAUGHS
0:02:23 > 0:02:25LOW GRUNTS
0:02:40 > 0:02:42The head.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47INDISTINCT URGENT INSTRUCTIONS
0:02:50 > 0:02:52One, two, three.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Short deep breaths, eh?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02- Make sure that their breathing's good. Yeah.- Short breaths.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06380.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Where's the brush? Give us the brush.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41- Injecting.- Yeah.- Can we go?
0:03:41 > 0:03:44We've got a rhino left on its side now. Let's go.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49The operation goes very quickly.
0:03:49 > 0:03:50It's painless,
0:03:50 > 0:03:55probably less danger than a human being having its wisdom tooth out.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00He will be back with his friends within minutes.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02It'll take about two years
0:04:02 > 0:04:05before he goes through the same procedure again
0:04:05 > 0:04:09and we know that the poachers prefer rhinos with long horns
0:04:09 > 0:04:10and pointed horns.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14Every two years, to save his life, I think,
0:04:14 > 0:04:17if he had an opinion to give to you, he would say,
0:04:17 > 0:04:23"I'm very happy to sacrifice my horn, in order to save my life."
0:04:24 > 0:04:26There he is, already walking normally.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27He looks fine.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58I truly believe that I have the recipe
0:04:58 > 0:05:01to save the rhino from extinction.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04Sell the horns, keep the rhinos alive and breeding more and more.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08I will give you a challenge.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Give me one animal that's gone extinct
0:05:10 > 0:05:13while farmers were breeding it and making money out of it.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16There's not one. Not one.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33SHEEP AND LAMBS BLEAT
0:05:51 > 0:05:54That's a Dorper lamb.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57That's what we do. We raise babies.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58LAMB BLEATS LOUDLY
0:05:58 > 0:06:02We feed them, we keep the predators out of them and we...
0:06:02 > 0:06:06..try to breed good genetics and try to raise the next generation.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10All right, I've got you. I've got your friend. Your little brother.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Let's go.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Those lambs will be three months old when they're weaned
0:06:14 > 0:06:16and they will go to a small packer in central Texas
0:06:16 > 0:06:19and that lamb will be harvested
0:06:19 > 0:06:22and, typically, will go into your high-end grocery chains
0:06:22 > 0:06:24and then to a few specialty restaurants.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28CAR HORN
0:06:33 > 0:06:36I think we have a problem with people thinking that all animals are pets.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38I don't think you can explain that to people.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42If they don't understand that you raise a chicken to kill a chicken to eat chicken,
0:06:42 > 0:06:44if they can't understand that,
0:06:44 > 0:06:46it's their infantile frame of mind that I don't know how to,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48how to get in their mind.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51All I can tell them is, I love raising these animals.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53I love those lambs.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57Even the ones that are going to be somebody's lamb chops this summer for July fourth.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00But that's what they're for.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01They're not for anything else.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Pull him. To the side, guys.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36One, two, three. Come on.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Keep it on the grass.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20You are closing his nose. He must breathe.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22You can't put your hand there.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Let me close your nose also.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36OK? Thank you, guys.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41There's a big industry in our country. Not just the crocodiles,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43the lions, the sables, the buffalo,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46everything it's being bred for purpose on the end of the day.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51So, yeah, sure, some of them will be hunted.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54We are as humans going to eat it,
0:08:54 > 0:08:56or we're going to use the skin
0:08:56 > 0:08:58and then that's a cycle of life.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59SHOUTING
0:09:03 > 0:09:05John! John!
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Slowly, slowly, slowly.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Those are still wild animals,
0:09:49 > 0:09:51even if they've been kept in captivity, like this,
0:09:51 > 0:09:53they'll kill you in an instant and eat you up.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57So then, once it's closed up,
0:09:57 > 0:10:01you load it on and it's ready for transport to its next destination.
0:10:37 > 0:10:38If you don't come to Vegas,
0:10:38 > 0:10:42I think your business will eventually won't make it.
0:10:42 > 0:10:43This is the place to come
0:10:43 > 0:10:47and everyone tries to be better than the next person.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50It doesn't matter if he's breeding lions, or buffalo, or sable,
0:10:50 > 0:10:53it's a passion to have your wild game
0:10:53 > 0:10:56and to be able to breed them and make sure you get better quality
0:10:56 > 0:11:00and genetics and that, and you're actually proud of it.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06The Safari Club International show
0:11:06 > 0:11:09is the largest hunting convention in the planet.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14We have 2,000 booths that are out there on the floor.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18We'll probably run 20,000 different folks through here
0:11:18 > 0:11:20from all over the world...
0:11:21 > 0:11:24..and you'll be able to see anything that you want,
0:11:24 > 0:11:30in terms of hunting, hunting support, and conservation.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32For you, eight animals, big cats.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35I know that a lot of people are confused
0:11:35 > 0:11:38how hunting and conservation go together.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Hunt South Africa on a ten-day...
0:11:41 > 0:11:44About two hours ago, there was an auction item
0:11:44 > 0:11:46that was an elephant hunt.
0:11:46 > 0:11:4920,000. Let's go. 22.5. Blow him out of the water. 22.5.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Yo!
0:11:51 > 0:11:54And that elephant hunt sold for about 50,000
0:11:54 > 0:11:59and that money will all go back into conservation.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02- Ha!- Sold right there. 18,000. 18.
0:12:02 > 0:12:03APPLAUSE
0:12:07 > 0:12:09The coat is not exchangeable and model is not included.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Another at 29,000.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14I don't know when my little granddaughter says
0:12:14 > 0:12:17"I don't know why my grandma wants to shoot a zebra."
0:12:17 > 0:12:21So, I don't know. I'm losing face with my three-year-old little granddaughter
0:12:21 > 0:12:22cos I'm going to go shoot a zebra.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26And crocodiles are really mean.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29So I don't feel bad about killing one of those.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Besides that, I want pair of boots.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32And a purse, and a wallet.
0:12:33 > 0:12:34And a belt.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38You can not only pick the species you want,
0:12:38 > 0:12:41but you can pick the actual animal you want,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43so you can see if you want a male, or a female,
0:12:43 > 0:12:46older, younger, colour, type of fur.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48You can just pick whatever animal you want
0:12:48 > 0:12:52from the menu that they offer you, see the price, and book the kill.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03The Safari Club Convention
0:13:03 > 0:13:06is the ultimate meat market for exotic species.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08And one of the prime attractions
0:13:08 > 0:13:12is to get a big five grand slam.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15So you shoot one of each of the following species.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Buffalo, which would cost you about 8-9,000.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20Leopards for about 20.
0:13:20 > 0:13:21Elephants for 45.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Lions for 50,000.
0:13:23 > 0:13:29And most expensive, because it's the rarest - the rhino for 350,000.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33So there's all this sort of stuff that encourages this collecting,
0:13:33 > 0:13:36this obsessiveness for more and more and more
0:13:36 > 0:13:39and the status is applied to the individual hunter
0:13:39 > 0:13:41who achieves those ends.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46I happened to be at Safari club and they were discussing fish and wildlife
0:13:46 > 0:13:48and all the bans they kept instituting
0:13:48 > 0:13:50and that there was a rumour that they wanted to put lions
0:13:50 > 0:13:53on the threatened list and further regulate their take.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57And I decided at that moment, that if the big five was my goal,
0:13:57 > 0:14:00then I had to step my plans up, drastically.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04It's ready.
0:14:09 > 0:14:10Wait, wait. And take him.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20I love it.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27It's exciting to see people get here.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30They are going on a big hunt, so they're excited.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32They've worked very hard to earn the money
0:14:32 > 0:14:34to be able to go pay for this hunt
0:14:34 > 0:14:36and they come here with anticipation.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38They come here with a lot of nervousness,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41because, in Africa, it is dangerous.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44We're right on the edge of a herd of elephants. Want you to get bull.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47You hit him, just keep hitting him again till he's down. Sound good?
0:14:47 > 0:14:49- Sounds good.- Follow me up here.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51If you go back 1,000 years,
0:14:51 > 0:14:55you know, the balance of nature was pretty, pretty stable.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Unfortunately, man has kind of screwed this up.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01And we have encroached on so much natural land,
0:15:01 > 0:15:04that the species, all the species, now have to be managed.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06For instance, too many elephants in Botswana.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09On the right, on the right. There he is.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Hit him again. And he's down.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13He's down.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Of course, we can't do this with live animals but
0:15:16 > 0:15:20it kind of gets you pumped up, what you're going to feel on the real deal.
0:15:26 > 0:15:27Hunters' remorse.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30It's not been something I've experienced recently.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34But as a child, I certainly remember it.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37From the flight deck for those of you leaving us,
0:15:37 > 0:15:40I'd just like to welcome you to Katima.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43On behalf of the crew thank you for flying with...
0:15:43 > 0:15:46When I was a little boy, I remember I had a BB gun.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49I can vividly remember my mother telling me,
0:15:49 > 0:15:51"You can go shoot birds but don't shoot a red bird."
0:15:54 > 0:15:56What did I do?
0:15:56 > 0:15:58I went and shot a red bird.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05And I can still remember holding that bird in my hands
0:16:05 > 0:16:08and looking at its beak and just seeing how beautiful it was
0:16:08 > 0:16:10and how it was made.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13Right there in that moment,
0:16:13 > 0:16:14I realised that there's no way
0:16:14 > 0:16:17I could have loved that bird any more.
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Even though it was dead.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25And I think a lot of us, as trophy hunters, feel the same way.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27We just... We just want that experience to go...
0:16:29 > 0:16:30..and hunt that animal one time.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33We'd really just want one.
0:16:38 > 0:16:39Where are you going?
0:16:45 > 0:16:46LOW GRUNT
0:16:46 > 0:16:48What's wrong, my baby?
0:16:50 > 0:16:53PHONE RINGTONE
0:16:56 > 0:17:00- Yeah, Johnny?- It's not a good morning again this morning.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Oh, fuck. Now what?
0:17:03 > 0:17:05It's a dead rhino there.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07An adult rhino?
0:17:07 > 0:17:08Yeah.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09Fuck!
0:17:11 > 0:17:12Has she got a calf, Johnny?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Yeah, she's got big two-year-old calf.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18- Two-year-old calf.- Yeah.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21Ugh! Fuck me. It never stops, does it?
0:17:21 > 0:17:23No.
0:17:30 > 0:17:31Heartbreaking.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41When a calf doesn't know what to do with itself.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26The goal of this farm and myself is to breed 200 rhinos a year.
0:18:29 > 0:18:34I have lost quite a few of my breeding stock.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37Disease will always be a factor.
0:18:37 > 0:18:38Unfortunately, so will poaching.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43The odds are stacked against them.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46And...
0:18:47 > 0:18:49..I'm always for the underdog...
0:18:50 > 0:18:52..but more to the point...
0:18:53 > 0:18:54..I got to know them
0:18:54 > 0:18:57and they are the last animal in the world
0:18:57 > 0:19:00that deserves the persecution.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01They don't deserve it.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03They are the nicest,
0:19:03 > 0:19:05most user-friendly animal
0:19:05 > 0:19:10that wants to stay this side of extinction.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24They definitely are the most magical creatures.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27I can sit and watch them for hours and hours and hours.
0:19:30 > 0:19:31And they're ancient.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34They don't look like they belong in today's life,
0:19:34 > 0:19:36yet they're still here.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41I'm hoping that people get a whiff of places like this.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43What we're trying to do here,
0:19:43 > 0:19:45that more of them will start thinking
0:19:45 > 0:19:47of opening their own breeding operations,
0:19:47 > 0:19:50so that, hopefully, together, we can revive the numbers,
0:19:50 > 0:19:54before we destroy another species because of mankind.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06Almost every other wild animal has to be killed
0:20:06 > 0:20:08to get what people want.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12Whether that is horns, skin, meat,
0:20:12 > 0:20:15rhino is the only exception
0:20:15 > 0:20:19and that's why I concentrate on rhinos,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22because you don't have to hunt them, you don't have to kill them.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25In fact, you shouldn't, because they're growing gold for you.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32The rhino horn belief has been around for millions of years.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Unfortunately, there are more people that believe in rhino horn
0:20:35 > 0:20:37than there are Christians on this earth,
0:20:37 > 0:20:40so it's very difficult...
0:20:40 > 0:20:44You're going to go and tell 600 million Christians, or whatever,
0:20:44 > 0:20:46that God doesn't exist, by the same token,
0:20:46 > 0:20:48you're not going to tell people rhino horn doesn't work.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53This one weighs about four kilos.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56In Vietnam, on the black market, the retail value of this horn
0:20:56 > 0:20:58would be about a quarter of a million dollars.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03It's more expensive than gold, or heroin, by weight.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09The illogical part of it is that I have four tonnes of rhino horn
0:21:09 > 0:21:11in expensive security,
0:21:11 > 0:21:15which very conservatively, I could get 60 million.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19But we're not allowed to sell it.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27When I started this project,
0:21:27 > 0:21:30it was legal to sell rhino horn in South Africa.
0:21:31 > 0:21:36In 2009, our government put a moratorium on the trade in rhino horn...
0:21:37 > 0:21:40..but, since the ban, poaching has skyrocketed.
0:21:56 > 0:22:01The very crook who now will kill a rhino and sell it illegally,
0:22:01 > 0:22:05if he could sell the horn legally, he will never kill a rhino.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Who would kill the hen that lays the golden egg?
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Maybe somebody's watching for crocs.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19I hope.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23Ooh!
0:22:25 > 0:22:26There's a little hole right there.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30It's all good.
0:22:46 > 0:22:51This is one of the largest destinations, probably, in Africa
0:22:51 > 0:22:54where there's no fences. It's absolutely open.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58You have to work for your trophy.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00We believe, yeah, that...
0:23:01 > 0:23:03..if you want to hunt, it's all on the food.
0:23:03 > 0:23:04It's walk and stalk.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08It's giving, also, the animal a chance.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10So, for us, the three things is,
0:23:10 > 0:23:15if he hears you, he smells you, or if he sees you, it's game over.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17HE WHISPERS
0:23:27 > 0:23:29The build-up to pulling that trigger, in my case,
0:23:29 > 0:23:32started at 18 months ago.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34So it's a long build-up to that point.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Preparation, planning, buying plane tickets,
0:23:37 > 0:23:38paying a deposit on safari,
0:23:38 > 0:23:40talking with your PH about the plans.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42"What are we going to do? How are we going to hunt him?"
0:23:42 > 0:23:44All this stalking, planning...
0:23:45 > 0:23:49..and then, finding if the animal's coming.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51And then the animal's there.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00And then, you pull the trigger.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02And, then - boom! - you've got him.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06And then, all of the anticipation changes into a different emotion,
0:24:06 > 0:24:08of joy and relief...
0:24:10 > 0:24:12..and excitement and anticipation,
0:24:12 > 0:24:14because you want to go over to him and see...
0:24:15 > 0:24:17..hell, what does he look like?
0:24:17 > 0:24:18What does he feel like?
0:24:18 > 0:24:20What does he...
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Where did he fall?
0:24:27 > 0:24:29BRANCHES SNAP
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Which one are you looking at?
0:24:50 > 0:24:51This one here on the left.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52OK.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Wait.
0:25:04 > 0:25:05- Wait there.- Yeah.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08No, no, no. That's a young bull.
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Let's go back.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Let's go, let's go, let's go.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24Philip!
0:25:32 > 0:25:33I think it's too dangerous.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Too many, they're too blocked up and...
0:25:35 > 0:25:37All the ones I saw had good toes, the big ones.
0:25:37 > 0:25:38Yeah, but they're female.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40It's all females we are looking for, an old,
0:25:40 > 0:25:44old animal that we can harvest for meat.
0:25:44 > 0:25:45That's OK. Keep going.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15For the better part of two centuries now,
0:26:15 > 0:26:17you had this hunting culture,
0:26:17 > 0:26:19first in Britain and now in America,
0:26:19 > 0:26:21that it's somehow rugged and exciting
0:26:21 > 0:26:23to be out in the wilderness and hunting,
0:26:23 > 0:26:25and Teddy Roosevelt bought into that
0:26:25 > 0:26:27when he hunted thousands of animals,
0:26:27 > 0:26:29including something like 5,000 mammals
0:26:29 > 0:26:31and started to record all of these kills.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36The hunters' accounts of what they're doing
0:26:36 > 0:26:38makes me sick to my stomach, sometimes,
0:26:38 > 0:26:41about finding this amazing bull elephant and putting a bullet
0:26:41 > 0:26:45in the animal's head and that gives them a rush of excitement.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Now, they cloak that in money, conservation, helping people,
0:26:49 > 0:26:52so, yeah, Roosevelt is declaring all these parks National Parks
0:26:52 > 0:26:53and protecting wilderness
0:26:53 > 0:26:56but he's also killing thousands of animals at the same time,
0:26:56 > 0:26:58because he wanted to be able to do that hunting.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01He wanted to be able to consume those wild animals.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08The hunting industry is trying to convince people
0:27:08 > 0:27:10that the way it was in Roosevelt's time
0:27:10 > 0:27:12is the way it still is today.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17A hunter was somebody who was willing to go out
0:27:17 > 0:27:21and spend three weeks walking around on foot, tracking an elephant,
0:27:21 > 0:27:23tracking a lion, to shoot it and take home a trophy.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26There was a challenge, there was a sense of sport.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32But what has happened in the last ten or 15 years
0:27:32 > 0:27:36has been a growing segment of the hunting demographic
0:27:36 > 0:27:38which are referred to as "the shooters"
0:27:38 > 0:27:42and the shooters may have to spend as much money as it takes
0:27:42 > 0:27:44to get a three-week permit
0:27:44 > 0:27:47but if they can kill everything in the first two days,
0:27:47 > 0:27:49they'll do it and they'll fly home.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53It's that mentality that really fed the birth
0:27:53 > 0:27:55of the canned hunting industry.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02Basically, you've gone shopping at some import-export place
0:28:02 > 0:28:05and you've got your rug, you got your mantelpiece.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08But it's not sport, it's just killing.
0:28:14 > 0:28:15GUNSHOT
0:28:17 > 0:28:18- OK, guys?- Yeah. Very.
0:28:22 > 0:28:23Shit! I'm out of bullets.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27Come here, come here, come here.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Piece of shit.
0:28:33 > 0:28:34Where is it now?
0:28:36 > 0:28:37It's going to move.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42That is one big-ass fucking crocodile!
0:28:43 > 0:28:44Let me tell you, though,
0:28:44 > 0:28:46the adrenaline has been worth every penny of it,
0:28:46 > 0:28:49- as long as we can fetch it out. - Something's coming out there.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51- Yeah. It's coming out there. - Oh, fuck.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53- That's... Oh, my gosh! - That's not yours.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55- Yes.- Is that yours?
0:28:55 > 0:28:58- I don't know.- I don't know. - No, but I want to shoot a rhino.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00I want to have... Yeah, I want to have two.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03That can't be yours, swimming like that.
0:29:03 > 0:29:04- That's impossible.- Oh, no!
0:29:04 > 0:29:06I don't know what that is.
0:29:06 > 0:29:07It keeps like croaking.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09It is.
0:29:09 > 0:29:10Watch it. I want to shoot this one.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12- I'm not sure.- Is that the one?
0:29:12 > 0:29:13Yeah.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19I'll shoot it with this one. Going to put my beer down.
0:29:19 > 0:29:20Not drop it.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36What's this?
0:29:36 > 0:29:37- The blood.- Blood?
0:29:37 > 0:29:41- From the last crocodile. - Oh, the last crocodile. Oh!- Yeah.
0:29:43 > 0:29:44It's just waiting for us to get close.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46Oh, it's moving it's eyes.
0:29:46 > 0:29:47Need to watch out.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51Shoot it again.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53Should I just shoot it in the brain?
0:29:59 > 0:30:00God!
0:30:02 > 0:30:04- Now it's dead.- Oh, you motherfucker!
0:30:04 > 0:30:05LAUGHTER
0:30:08 > 0:30:10- Now he's destroyed. - No, they'll fix it up.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12They'll fix it, Sarah. They'll fix it.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14That's what taxidermists do.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16That's why you pay them.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20I'm done for the day. It's party time, boys.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39- How much for that sucker? - That white one?
0:30:39 > 0:30:42That's a big white lion. It would be about 35,000.
0:30:42 > 0:30:4435,000? How much was Cecil?
0:30:45 > 0:30:48Cecil was expensive, like, 50,000.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53I was in the cattle industry for, like, ten, 12 years
0:30:53 > 0:30:56and because we had a lot of game in the area,
0:30:56 > 0:30:59I had some other outfitters those years which always contact me
0:30:59 > 0:31:01and said, "Please, Christo, can I bring a client over?"
0:31:01 > 0:31:03"I'd like to come and hunt."
0:31:03 > 0:31:05And I'd say, "OK, fine, bring the clients."
0:31:05 > 0:31:08And then I start meeting overseas clients
0:31:08 > 0:31:11and it looked to me like it can become a good business.
0:31:14 > 0:31:18So what we offer our clients is days at the lodge,
0:31:18 > 0:31:21there is a Jacuzzi and then the hunting area.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23You can drive around, try and spot the animals,
0:31:23 > 0:31:27you get off and you try and get the client up to a point
0:31:27 > 0:31:29where he can have a clear, good shot at that animal.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36- Good shot. - Good shot, buddy.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40Normally in the middle of the day, when it's really hot,
0:31:40 > 0:31:42we bring the clients into the blind area
0:31:42 > 0:31:44where they can sit down for the rest of the afternoon.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46So it's making it really comfortable.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50The client can stand straight up and be able to shoot
0:31:50 > 0:31:53through that slot over there.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55It's maybe, like, 25 yards.
0:31:55 > 0:31:57We will put some feeders out here, as well,
0:31:57 > 0:32:00so that the animals can only come into the certain areas
0:32:00 > 0:32:01where there is water for drinking.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05Then we clear out around all these water points where the blinds are
0:32:05 > 0:32:08because you would like to see the animals when they come in
0:32:08 > 0:32:09and that makes it an exciting hunt
0:32:09 > 0:32:11and it makes it a natural environment,
0:32:11 > 0:32:13which is very important.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17What did you kill? You're just wasting petrol.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19Yeah, it's not a photo safari.
0:32:19 > 0:32:20You've got the wrong guide.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22You should get a guide which kills things.
0:32:22 > 0:32:23LAUGHTER
0:32:23 > 0:32:26Sorry! OK, sorry!
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Just keep in mind, we don't feed no Americans
0:32:28 > 0:32:30if they don't shoot something.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34I would love to have a giraffe.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38I probably would shoot it myself, too.
0:32:38 > 0:32:39Oh, here's some more.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42He says it's too expensive and we don't have room for it in our house.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45I would find room for it in our house,
0:32:45 > 0:32:49even if I probably would have to build onto the trophy room,
0:32:49 > 0:32:50which I don't want to.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01A beautiful animal. I got one of those last year.
0:33:01 > 0:33:07I still have a warthog and a baboon and a bush buck, a bush pig,
0:33:07 > 0:33:09a caracal, so the list is still pretty big
0:33:09 > 0:33:11and we have the rest of this day and two more days to hunt.
0:33:11 > 0:33:14So we'll try to do our best to get the most on the list,
0:33:14 > 0:33:16but it's not as easy.
0:33:18 > 0:33:21It seems like once we're going for them, they're real skittish.
0:33:31 > 0:33:34Now we just like to get all this grass out of the way.
0:33:35 > 0:33:37Wash all the blood off.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48You try and start with plains game.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51You know, animals which they get the feeling
0:33:51 > 0:33:53and get used to our bush and environment.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55Right, Joe, smile.
0:33:55 > 0:33:58And then, eventually, they've got the experience
0:33:58 > 0:34:00to allow them to go after the big five.
0:34:02 > 0:34:03This is the most expensive one.
0:34:05 > 0:34:06Damn, that was a good shot.
0:34:07 > 0:34:08Ah, beautiful photo.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11- One, two...- Do you want to kiss? - Yes.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13Oh, that's a nice one! There you go.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17Now I'm happy, she got a second one and oil's up to 2.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20- What?- Oil's up.- Oil's up 2.
0:34:20 > 0:34:22Let's add another one to the list.
0:34:22 > 0:34:24Let's add that bitch to the list.
0:34:27 > 0:34:29Right, I'm going to start you really low.
0:34:29 > 0:34:32And what do we say? What about one million here?
0:34:32 > 0:34:34500,000 now. 500, 500, 500, 600,000.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37I've got 600,000. 800,000. One million. Thank you, sir.
0:34:37 > 0:34:391 million that we have now. I've got a 1.2, now.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42I've got a 1.5, and 730 there.
0:34:42 > 0:34:45I've got 1,730,000 now.
0:34:45 > 0:34:46Do we have 1,750,000 here?
0:34:46 > 0:34:50Every outfitter, if he has a lot of clients,
0:34:50 > 0:34:54or runs a good hunting business, you kind of shoot out your animals,
0:34:54 > 0:34:58so you have to buy in new blood.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01The breeding is very important because that's where the money is.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03The money is in the breeding.
0:35:03 > 0:35:05AUCTION CHANT AND BIDDING CONTINUES
0:35:13 > 0:35:17We've had buffalo go for between four and five million US dollars
0:35:17 > 0:35:21and also sable bulls go for four or five million US dollars.
0:35:21 > 0:35:23It's good for the industry.
0:35:23 > 0:35:25Very big demand and a good market.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27At 2,600,000, and done.
0:35:31 > 0:35:33You have the...
0:35:33 > 0:35:35You know, the capitalist system, the profit motive,
0:35:35 > 0:35:37making money off of wildlife.
0:35:37 > 0:35:41So it's a remarkable development, but in South Africa,
0:35:41 > 0:35:44they went through an incredible period of removing nature
0:35:44 > 0:35:48from their countryside in the 1800s.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50And they'd literally removed everything.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53It's only been in the last 20, 25 years
0:35:53 > 0:35:56that there has been this recognition
0:35:56 > 0:35:59that they could take private land and private owners themselves
0:35:59 > 0:36:02could profit by restoring these areas.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07Now, until recently, this land was mostly used for livestock,
0:36:07 > 0:36:09but a lot of people decided,
0:36:09 > 0:36:13"Well, we could get more revenue if we do game ranching."
0:36:13 > 0:36:16You'd actually get much more money than raising cows.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20In this model, they're filling the market
0:36:20 > 0:36:23by first killing rare ungulate species, like sable,
0:36:23 > 0:36:25that are still attractive for hunters.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29And you can also start breeding your buffalo, so they have abnormally huge horns.
0:36:31 > 0:36:35And then, as the market saturates, people are thinking,
0:36:35 > 0:36:39"Ah, well, you know, I've got all this land and we could bring back big five."
0:36:42 > 0:36:46Now you actually have got a restored ecosystem.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51And so this has been a success story.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53There are far more lions in South Africa now
0:36:53 > 0:36:55than there were 100 years ago.
0:36:55 > 0:36:58There is far more predators, in general, in South Africa
0:36:58 > 0:37:00than there were 100 years ago.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03Initially, it may have been because
0:37:03 > 0:37:06this would have involved the slaughter of some animals,
0:37:06 > 0:37:08but then you could go towards a more naturalistic thing
0:37:08 > 0:37:11that would not have happened otherwise.
0:37:13 > 0:37:14If we are only going to restrict...
0:37:15 > 0:37:18..what we view as domesticated animals
0:37:18 > 0:37:20to those species that have been domesticated
0:37:20 > 0:37:23hundreds of thousands of years ago,
0:37:23 > 0:37:26then we are just going to see a lot of these species go away
0:37:26 > 0:37:29and, I think, that there are a few species, like rhino,
0:37:29 > 0:37:31that there should be rhino farms.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35One needs to recognise
0:37:35 > 0:37:38that what they've achieved in South Africa
0:37:38 > 0:37:40should not be lost.
0:37:54 > 0:37:56This was a breeding buffalo bull.
0:37:56 > 0:37:59This buffalo bull was bought for millions...
0:38:00 > 0:38:02..and, eventually,
0:38:02 > 0:38:07he was done breeding and we had to put him out of there for hunting.
0:38:07 > 0:38:09So we got the Canadian client, he came over,
0:38:09 > 0:38:13and he was very happy to harvest to such a beautiful trophy.
0:38:13 > 0:38:14So nothing goes for waste.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16Nothing. Even that animal.
0:38:16 > 0:38:21And we hope that, maybe, there's 50, 70 babies of him running around.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24But eventually, one day, he is going to be honoured,
0:38:24 > 0:38:28to put him up on the trophy room where someone can walk in and say,
0:38:28 > 0:38:30"You know what, that was a top breeder."
0:38:30 > 0:38:32And he will still be honoured today.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34You look at him and say he was a great trophy.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37He makes a real great trophy.
0:38:37 > 0:38:39Do you ever get attached to a lion,
0:38:39 > 0:38:41that it's hard to release it for a hunt?
0:38:41 > 0:38:44Is there some animal like that that you are like, "Ah, this one."
0:38:44 > 0:38:46All animals.
0:38:46 > 0:38:50Doesn't matter what animal it is, if you love animals,
0:38:50 > 0:38:51you will get attached to it.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53You will go out there every day.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55You see this animal, you are feeding him.
0:38:55 > 0:38:59The buffalo, your sable, of course,
0:38:59 > 0:39:02but there will be a time when you have to let go.
0:39:06 > 0:39:07Cut.
0:39:10 > 0:39:11You must cut it.
0:39:42 > 0:39:43Yeah!
0:39:47 > 0:39:49Did you see it? Congratulations.
0:39:52 > 0:39:53- You got him running away.- Yeah!
0:39:56 > 0:39:57Oh, mercy!
0:39:59 > 0:40:01HEAVY BREATHING
0:40:05 > 0:40:07He's done.
0:40:07 > 0:40:10ELEPHANT GROANS
0:40:34 > 0:40:35ELEPHANT MOANS
0:40:48 > 0:40:49Maybe you could come to the side.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51- Where?- To the chest.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53- Straight to there?- Yeah.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12Let's stand a little bit back
0:41:12 > 0:41:14so you can just finish.
0:41:22 > 0:41:24Cigarette?
0:42:01 > 0:42:03Is he an old one, Philip?
0:42:06 > 0:42:08No. Just a bull.
0:42:13 > 0:42:19Doesn't have, uh, the trophy quality of a big elephant.
0:42:19 > 0:42:21You know, he will never grow big.
0:42:21 > 0:42:22So...yeah.
0:44:37 > 0:44:40The "own use" elephant is an elephant that we have to hunt
0:44:40 > 0:44:42for the community.
0:44:42 > 0:44:43As part of their quota,
0:44:43 > 0:44:46they get some animals that they can harvest for meat.
0:44:47 > 0:44:5215 years ago, people poached animals because of they want meat
0:44:52 > 0:44:54and there was no value to the animal for them.
0:44:54 > 0:44:57Now they know they must protect the wildlife.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59It's not only the meat,
0:44:59 > 0:45:02there's actually money going back to their pockets.
0:47:48 > 0:47:51- Break the door where people are sleeping?- Yeah.
0:47:51 > 0:47:55These are recurring problems, then. Can't carry on like this.
0:47:55 > 0:47:57Somebody's going to get eaten. It's just a matter of time.
0:47:57 > 0:48:00Maybe it's better people cry about a dead lion
0:48:00 > 0:48:03and we don't cry about a dead person.
0:48:03 > 0:48:04- Better that way.- Yeah.
0:48:12 > 0:48:16We go to extreme lengths to keep animals from being shot
0:48:16 > 0:48:19on the problem animal control programme.
0:48:19 > 0:48:21Probably 95% of the time
0:48:21 > 0:48:24we can get the animals out of the communities
0:48:24 > 0:48:27and get them back into where they belong.
0:48:27 > 0:48:29Try keep the two separate because they don't mix well.
0:48:31 > 0:48:33People are killed every year
0:48:33 > 0:48:36by elephant, and hippo, and crocodile, and lion.
0:48:36 > 0:48:39It's part of life.
0:48:39 > 0:48:41Part of life here, anyway, certainly.
0:48:44 > 0:48:48Lions come in, absolutely destroy a guide's livelihood
0:48:48 > 0:48:51and he doesn't have a way to sustain his future.
0:48:51 > 0:48:54Maybe does he end up in the bush, putting up wire snares and poaching?
0:48:54 > 0:48:59At the end of the day, you know, we're fighting a poaching war.
0:49:00 > 0:49:02We are trying to recruit people.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04We do the anti-poaching campaigns.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06Trying to teach people
0:49:06 > 0:49:09and explain to them the importance of animals.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14The problem is people, they're suffering.
0:49:14 > 0:49:19So they are forced now to get into the bush, to make a living.
0:49:33 > 0:49:35Stay, stay.
0:49:36 > 0:49:38Stay. Be a good boy.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40Be a good boy. Stay, stay.
0:49:48 > 0:49:51Yeah, David, you don't. Let me tell you, you definitely don't.
0:49:53 > 0:49:57That one over there was only 14 months old.
0:49:58 > 0:50:00I think two of them were pregnant
0:50:00 > 0:50:04and then another cow with a young calf was also wounded.
0:50:04 > 0:50:06She still has a bullet in her brisket.
0:50:08 > 0:50:11Whether that will prove fatal or not, we don't know.
0:50:18 > 0:50:19Fucking sick.
0:50:26 > 0:50:30They can give you ten, 12, even 13 calves in their life.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34That is all wiped out...
0:50:36 > 0:50:37..in one moment.
0:50:46 > 0:50:48The bodies were actually mutilated.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52It means it is definitely, sort of, locals involved.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55I'm suspicious about the camp master,
0:50:56 > 0:50:58because the rhinos, A, know him,
0:50:58 > 0:51:02and he knows how to go and stand in the middle of them, quietly,
0:51:02 > 0:51:05and then maybe, you know, two guys,
0:51:05 > 0:51:08one banging one side and one banging this side.
0:51:08 > 0:51:10That's how I pictured it in my nightmare.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40Tell this fucking lady now we are not tired of this.
0:52:40 > 0:52:42We are going to leave her with boots.
0:52:47 > 0:52:48Quickly! Quickly!
0:53:46 > 0:53:48We've known your father a long time.
0:53:48 > 0:53:52The future in the bush, ain't a future, there is no future there.
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Otherwise, you can die, leaving your family behind.
0:53:56 > 0:54:00Or to be jailed, and you are young guys
0:54:00 > 0:54:03with plenty of future to your side.
0:54:04 > 0:54:06I know if we stay like this we'll end up...
0:54:11 > 0:54:13That's not going forward.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20We're fighting this war for the community. This community.
0:54:20 > 0:54:23And another community further away want these elephants' teeth.
0:54:23 > 0:54:25They're worth a lot of money.
0:54:25 > 0:54:27And they will go to all lengths to get what they want.
0:54:27 > 0:54:29So, yeah.
0:54:29 > 0:54:32We need to look in the mirror every morning.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34I make a point of it every single morning.
0:54:34 > 0:54:35I look in the mirror
0:54:35 > 0:54:38because we've got to make sure we don't cross the bounds...
0:54:38 > 0:54:43..er...that we can't lose our humanity for humanity.
0:54:44 > 0:54:45I think that's really important.
0:54:45 > 0:54:50It gets harsh and we do things sometimes that...
0:54:50 > 0:54:52You saw it, scare people.
0:54:54 > 0:54:58But we, we have to do what...
0:54:58 > 0:55:00We have to keep this fight going.
0:55:01 > 0:55:04It's a war to save elephant from extinction.
0:55:14 > 0:55:1820 rhinos were poached. In less than a year.
0:55:18 > 0:55:1920.
0:55:23 > 0:55:27When I fired the previous security company,
0:55:28 > 0:55:31I already had a suspicion that some of them were involved
0:55:31 > 0:55:33in the rhino poaching.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37One of the people in that team I really liked
0:55:37 > 0:55:42was the second in command, a chap by the name of Thomas.
0:55:42 > 0:55:46That is our friend Thomas at the time that he was here.
0:55:46 > 0:55:50I've got a very reliable report from the police
0:55:50 > 0:55:53that Thomas was in on the poaching.
0:55:55 > 0:55:58That is, emotionally,
0:55:58 > 0:56:00the worst part of this was...
0:56:00 > 0:56:01Who are your friends now?
0:56:01 > 0:56:04Who are the friends of your rhino?
0:56:04 > 0:56:06You feel you can't trust anybody.
0:56:07 > 0:56:11I won't be able to guarantee zero losses on this property.
0:56:11 > 0:56:13What I can say to you that most of those incidents
0:56:13 > 0:56:15which are mapped there
0:56:15 > 0:56:17are a direct result of having
0:56:17 > 0:56:21the wrong people on site, with not the right equipment,
0:56:21 > 0:56:24not the right training, not being highly motivated.
0:56:24 > 0:56:27So we will now change the policy completely
0:56:27 > 0:56:29to have an elite reaction unit.
0:56:33 > 0:56:36I don't necessarily want them in a body bag,
0:56:36 > 0:56:38but I would like to upset them.
0:56:38 > 0:56:42For them to say, "No, no, no, you don't want to go to that place."
0:56:44 > 0:56:47We have a case of shots being fired.
0:56:53 > 0:56:55While a lot of the politicians are praying for peace,
0:56:55 > 0:56:58we are praying for war.
0:56:58 > 0:57:01More conflict is probably needed in this arena to sort out the problem.
0:57:05 > 0:57:09Quite frankly, I feel poor cos they're all very expensive.
0:57:09 > 0:57:13Radar seems to be somewhere between ten and 20 million Rand.
0:57:15 > 0:57:19This chopper here is costing me nearly a million a month.
0:57:19 > 0:57:22Then there is the underground man, the bloody information man...
0:57:22 > 0:57:24..and...and...and!
0:57:27 > 0:57:30Derek, would that have come through as an alarm if you had tapped it
0:57:30 > 0:57:31on the top of the fence?
0:57:37 > 0:57:38I mean, why did they come in here?
0:57:38 > 0:57:40They walked from that bottom road there.
0:57:40 > 0:57:44They all went up there into this camp to come close to these. Why?
0:57:45 > 0:57:47Just cos they're fucking with my head, or why?
0:57:56 > 0:57:57You feel very helpless, you know.
0:58:05 > 0:58:06Good morning, darlings.
0:58:08 > 0:58:09Let me scratch you.
0:58:10 > 0:58:12This one is four months old.
0:58:21 > 0:58:25I don't think anybody ever thought any private person
0:58:25 > 0:58:28would have 1,300 rhinos.
0:58:28 > 0:58:32And next year we're going to have 200 more, maybe.
0:58:34 > 0:58:37But I suppose it's an addiction kind of thing.
0:58:39 > 0:58:42And where do you think it's going to stop?
0:58:43 > 0:58:45When he kicks the bucket, I guess.
0:58:47 > 0:58:51Then hopefully one of his sons will carry on.
0:58:52 > 0:58:55He won't stop before he's six foot under.
0:59:04 > 0:59:07My dream is to carry on what my dad's doing.
0:59:07 > 0:59:09To carry on with the rhino breeding.
0:59:10 > 0:59:12Unfortunately, the irony,
0:59:12 > 0:59:16I wouldn't breed rhino because it's too expensive
0:59:16 > 0:59:18and it's very high risk.
0:59:18 > 0:59:21I mean, we've had death threats here at the house.
0:59:21 > 0:59:24If I see what he's gone through in the last 15 years,
0:59:24 > 0:59:28his financial position has gradually got worse and worse
0:59:28 > 0:59:31the more rhino he has acquired there.
0:59:33 > 0:59:40I've invested 50 million in this project with virtually no return.
0:59:47 > 0:59:52This project will come to an end unless it is making money.
0:59:53 > 0:59:55I can go on selling my assets,
0:59:55 > 0:59:57but it is not sustainable in the long run.
0:59:59 > 1:00:01I used to have six resorts.
1:00:01 > 1:00:04I used to have over 3,000 beds.
1:00:08 > 1:00:11All of the resorts have been...
1:00:11 > 1:00:13And this is the last one that will be sold on auction.
1:00:16 > 1:00:18RAPID AUCTION CHANT
1:00:29 > 1:00:32For 24 million. For the first time.
1:00:32 > 1:00:35For the second time at 24 million.
1:00:37 > 1:00:39Thank you, ma'am, it's yours.
1:00:39 > 1:00:40APPLAUSE
1:00:45 > 1:00:48After taking various advice,
1:00:48 > 1:00:51I believe that I don't have any option
1:00:51 > 1:00:55but to take the government to court to lift the moratorium.
1:00:57 > 1:00:58If I don't,
1:00:58 > 1:01:02I will run out of money and my rhinos will be killed by poachers.
1:01:16 > 1:01:18Sure?
1:01:18 > 1:01:21We believe that the poachers would have shot an elephant today...
1:01:22 > 1:01:24..and we hope to meet them on the road
1:01:24 > 1:01:27and explain to them that...
1:01:28 > 1:01:30..this no longer happens in this area.
1:01:39 > 1:01:42There was a sting operation in the district south of us
1:01:42 > 1:01:44where a lot of armed poachers come from.
1:01:44 > 1:01:48What had transpired was a guy whipped out a knife,
1:01:48 > 1:01:50tried to stab the police officer.
1:01:50 > 1:01:51He was shot.
1:01:52 > 1:01:56He died shortly after that.
1:01:57 > 1:01:59Er, yeah, don't know.
1:01:59 > 1:02:03It was a bit strange because the next day
1:02:03 > 1:02:05I had to go and shoot an elephant.
1:02:18 > 1:02:19# Happy birthday to you
1:02:19 > 1:02:24# Happy birthday, dear Philip
1:02:24 > 1:02:27# Happy birthday to you
1:02:27 > 1:02:29# And many more. #
1:02:29 > 1:02:30Cheers.
1:02:30 > 1:02:32APPLAUSE
1:02:38 > 1:02:43You spilled it. What are you, some kind of wild animal?
1:02:44 > 1:02:49Mom, Dad, now watch. Philip's opening his gift.
1:02:49 > 1:02:51Oh, I remember what these are.
1:02:52 > 1:02:56Birthday cheers on your quest for the big five.
1:02:56 > 1:02:58Something Merlot.
1:02:59 > 1:03:03- And some kind of chocolates. Is that what it is?- Happy birthday.
1:03:03 > 1:03:04Thank you.
1:03:11 > 1:03:15Unfortunately, this is my birthday present, I guess.
1:03:15 > 1:03:17They've listed the lions as threatened
1:03:17 > 1:03:21and all lions as threatened and another species as endangered.
1:03:21 > 1:03:23So effectively, lion hunting is over.
1:03:25 > 1:03:27Now, when this all goes into effect, I don't know.
1:03:28 > 1:03:31We are just a few months out, so maybe we're OK.
1:03:31 > 1:03:33Maybe we're not. Maybe we have to go to a different country.
1:03:33 > 1:03:36Maybe the whole trip's ruined. I don't know.
1:03:36 > 1:03:39So I think the thing that makes me the maddest is this
1:03:39 > 1:03:43service director Dan Ash says that, and I quote,
1:03:43 > 1:03:47"It's a privilege, not a right, for us to bring back these trophies from other countries."
1:03:49 > 1:03:51You know, I don't think he was elected by anybody.
1:03:51 > 1:03:54I think he's an appointed bureaucrat and he has no right to tell me
1:03:54 > 1:03:58what my rights are and what a privilege of being US citizen is.
1:04:00 > 1:04:02I'm going to be the first hunter in there for the hunting season
1:04:02 > 1:04:04and we planned it that way.
1:04:04 > 1:04:06So I'm going as early as I can in this coming year,
1:04:06 > 1:04:10but that might not be early enough.
1:04:12 > 1:04:13Just once in a while
1:04:13 > 1:04:15an individual animal
1:04:15 > 1:04:18can capture the public imagination
1:04:18 > 1:04:20and change public attitudes.
1:04:20 > 1:04:23Worldwide outrage over the death of Cecil the lion.
1:04:23 > 1:04:26Killed at the hands of an American dentist.
1:04:26 > 1:04:30Cecil's death created a sort of public groundswell of opinion
1:04:30 > 1:04:33that's been translated into real action.
1:04:33 > 1:04:34You know what, I eat hamburgers.
1:04:34 > 1:04:36But that was not a hunt. That was a murder.
1:04:36 > 1:04:39This guy must have quite a collection of animal heads.
1:04:39 > 1:04:41Here he is posing next to a bear he shot.
1:04:41 > 1:04:44He killed, like, half of Noah's Ark.
1:04:44 > 1:04:46Killing a lion for sport?
1:04:46 > 1:04:49Not in the era of Instagram, Facebook,
1:04:49 > 1:04:52not to a generation brought up to relate to Simba.
1:04:52 > 1:04:54We'll always be together, right?
1:04:54 > 1:04:56No, we won't.
1:04:56 > 1:04:59I'll be murdered by a dentist from Minnesota.
1:05:00 > 1:05:01See that constellation?
1:05:01 > 1:05:05The one that looks like a white guy in his 50s with a fake smile?
1:05:05 > 1:05:07Walter fucking Palmer.
1:05:07 > 1:05:10You hunted Cecil the lion like a fucking cowardly bitch.
1:05:10 > 1:05:13Dentist Palmer, welcome to the court of public opinion.
1:05:13 > 1:05:16I'm really happy that social media is getting this story out there.
1:05:16 > 1:05:19Got to stop talking about it because I'm going to get really angry.
1:05:19 > 1:05:21What would happen if you were being hunted, motherfucker?
1:05:21 > 1:05:23We'll never forgive what you did!
1:05:23 > 1:05:27In the wake of public outrage over the killing of Cecil the lion,
1:05:27 > 1:05:31the three largest US airlines are instituting bans
1:05:31 > 1:05:33on carrying trophies as freight.
1:05:33 > 1:05:36Somebody is paying for this thing to function.
1:05:36 > 1:05:40Someone provides the clothing, the scopes, the outdoor gear,
1:05:40 > 1:05:44and it makes the big corporate players in this
1:05:44 > 1:05:46think very carefully
1:05:46 > 1:05:51about how closely they wish to be associated with certain practices.
1:05:51 > 1:05:55And I think that will change and it will change fast
1:05:55 > 1:05:58and people will say, "Don't want to be part of this."
1:05:58 > 1:06:00Save our lions!
1:06:00 > 1:06:01Ban canned hunting!
1:06:01 > 1:06:03Save our lions!
1:06:03 > 1:06:05Ban canned hunting!
1:06:05 > 1:06:06Save our lions!
1:06:06 > 1:06:07Ban canned hunting!
1:06:07 > 1:06:10Save our lions!
1:06:10 > 1:06:11We will shame these people.
1:06:11 > 1:06:14We will ostracise these people.
1:06:14 > 1:06:17We will put such pressure on our governments that they've got nowhere to go
1:06:17 > 1:06:18and it isn't just lions.
1:06:18 > 1:06:22A certain gentleman that breeds 1,200 white rhinos in South Africa
1:06:22 > 1:06:26and spends 5.2 million rand a year feeding them and looking after them
1:06:26 > 1:06:29says he can no longer afford to pay for all of that.
1:06:29 > 1:06:32He'll have to cull those animals unless he can sell the rhino horn.
1:06:32 > 1:06:35And we've got to say enough is enough.
1:06:35 > 1:06:37We won't allow that to happen.
1:06:37 > 1:06:39We won't allow South Africa to abuse its position...
1:06:43 > 1:06:46Welcome. I'm here tonight to moderate a debate
1:06:46 > 1:06:50between two very prominent conservationists.
1:06:50 > 1:06:55Will Travers of the Born Free Foundation and Mr John Hume.
1:06:57 > 1:07:00I'm very keen to hear what he's going to say.
1:07:00 > 1:07:04He's far more experienced than I am in wooing the public.
1:07:04 > 1:07:06Don't forget that. That's what he does.
1:07:06 > 1:07:07He woos the public.
1:07:07 > 1:07:10That's how they collect money and that's why they are so good at it.
1:07:10 > 1:07:12APPLAUSE
1:07:16 > 1:07:18Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
1:07:18 > 1:07:25I'm a retired property developer and now custodian of 1,403 rhinos.
1:07:26 > 1:07:32If I can sell the horns my 1,400 will become 2,000, 3,000 and 10,000.
1:07:33 > 1:07:37I cannot see what is wrong with that
1:07:37 > 1:07:40when my rhinos are happy alive.
1:07:40 > 1:07:43Come and see them, where they are.
1:07:43 > 1:07:48I have the recipe but it takes a lot of money.
1:07:48 > 1:07:50I have a way to raise the money
1:07:50 > 1:07:53without going begging all over the world.
1:07:53 > 1:07:56All I need is for it to be legal.
1:07:56 > 1:07:59I don't think there's any legitimate case for you having these animals
1:07:59 > 1:08:02in large numbers in private areas of owned land
1:08:02 > 1:08:04where you can harvest them, where you can profit from them,
1:08:04 > 1:08:07where you can put them into the international market
1:08:07 > 1:08:09where we can lead to more destruction.
1:08:09 > 1:08:10APPLAUSE
1:08:10 > 1:08:13Excuse me, sir, I don't think you understand Africa.
1:08:13 > 1:08:17You simply don't understand Africa.
1:08:17 > 1:08:21How many consumers could you supply from your rhinos?
1:08:21 > 1:08:26I trim my horns every two years so I can produce with my current rhinos
1:08:26 > 1:08:28one tonne of horn a year.
1:08:28 > 1:08:31- What about the rest of the population?- They must do the same.
1:08:31 > 1:08:33That's why I want to give them to the communities.
1:08:33 > 1:08:35I want to teach the communities.
1:08:35 > 1:08:39What about Sumatran rhino? Indian rhino? Once you flood your market...
1:08:39 > 1:08:42So you want me to give up and let my rhino all die?
1:08:42 > 1:08:45It's all about your rhino. What about the global rhino?
1:08:45 > 1:08:47Let the global rhino do the same thing.
1:08:47 > 1:08:50You have to speak for all rhino, not just yours.
1:08:50 > 1:08:51APPLAUSE
1:08:53 > 1:08:55The if it pays, it stays principal.
1:08:55 > 1:08:58The commodification of wildlife.
1:08:58 > 1:09:00Elephants will stay if we can sell their ivory.
1:09:00 > 1:09:03Lions will stay if the wealthy elite can shoot them for fun.
1:09:03 > 1:09:07And rhino will stay, albeit on ranches very similar to Mr Hume's,
1:09:07 > 1:09:12if their horns can be sold to remote, distant, deluded buyers.
1:09:12 > 1:09:14What a vision of nature that will be.
1:09:14 > 1:09:18Contained, confined, commercialised, and counterfeit.
1:09:20 > 1:09:26South Africa is yet to decide on a push to end a global ban on buying and selling rhino horn.
1:09:26 > 1:09:28The move could open up a 2 billion market
1:09:28 > 1:09:31and also determine the fate of the critically endangered species.
1:12:33 > 1:12:35Oh, my gosh!
1:12:39 > 1:12:42- I got this one.- You got this one. You're coming back?- You bet.
1:12:42 > 1:12:45CHANTING, THUMPING OF DRUMS, CAR HORNS BLARE
1:12:52 > 1:12:53They like to talk about the numbers,
1:12:53 > 1:12:55they like to talk about conservation.
1:12:55 > 1:12:57They're just green washing, basically,
1:12:57 > 1:12:59the fact that they enjoy killing.
1:12:59 > 1:13:02And that's basically psychopathic behaviour.
1:13:02 > 1:13:04We're seeing a lot of progress for animals.
1:13:04 > 1:13:06The change is coming.
1:13:07 > 1:13:08We're going to put an end to this.
1:13:14 > 1:13:16I'm actually a conservation hunter.
1:13:16 > 1:13:18We are very conscientious about what we do hunt
1:13:18 > 1:13:20and we don't hunt any endangered species.
1:13:20 > 1:13:23- So, I'm against all hunting. - Just all hunting no matter what?
1:13:23 > 1:13:26- No matter what. - No matter the results or...?
1:13:26 > 1:13:28From the conservationists' point of view,
1:13:28 > 1:13:31the money that comes in from hunting in those areas where those
1:13:31 > 1:13:34conservancies are, is actually what's keeping them there.
1:13:34 > 1:13:36Do you honestly think your money goes anywhere except
1:13:36 > 1:13:39into someone's back pocket where you are breeding corruption?
1:13:39 > 1:13:42We're going to go to the school that we paid for.
1:13:42 > 1:13:44- We're going to go to the clinic... - So, go build a school!
1:13:44 > 1:13:46If you want to build a school, I'll shake your hand,
1:13:46 > 1:13:49- I'll come build it with you. - I'm just saying...- No problem.
1:13:49 > 1:13:51Why do you have to shoot an animal to go build a school?
1:13:51 > 1:13:53- I'm just saying that's part of our industry.- It's not the same.
1:13:53 > 1:13:55Murder is murder.
1:13:55 > 1:13:56It's not murder if it's an animal.
1:13:56 > 1:13:58Yes, it is.
1:13:58 > 1:14:00Did you murder a chicken that you had for lunch?
1:14:00 > 1:14:02I don't eat meat, sweetheart.
1:14:02 > 1:14:05- I'm vegan.- OK.- I don't eat meat.- OK.
1:14:05 > 1:14:08Cos I have regard for all species and all living, breathing things.
1:14:09 > 1:14:11Shame on you!
1:14:11 > 1:14:12Cowards!
1:14:19 > 1:14:21It's human nature to be empathetic with the individual,
1:14:21 > 1:14:24and so the animal rights organisations,
1:14:24 > 1:14:27that's their thinking, the individual.
1:14:27 > 1:14:29As if that's somehow going to protect the entire area,
1:14:29 > 1:14:32it's going to protect the whole ecosystem, and it's not.
1:14:32 > 1:14:35So they think in terms of Bambi or Simba or Fifi.
1:14:35 > 1:14:38Cos we can see Fifi, we know Fifi and we send out photographs
1:14:38 > 1:14:41of Fifis to our donors.
1:14:41 > 1:14:43Then that's great, OK.
1:14:43 > 1:14:46But Fifi might be in the right middle place,
1:14:46 > 1:14:48she's right in the most protected area and you're ignoring
1:14:48 > 1:14:50everywhere else around the periphery.
1:14:50 > 1:14:54And all the people are cutting away and they're filling forests,
1:14:54 > 1:14:56they're clearing land and they're bringing their livestock
1:14:56 > 1:14:58right next to Fifi.
1:14:58 > 1:14:59And it all goes.
1:15:01 > 1:15:05They're ignoring the fact that local people
1:15:05 > 1:15:07are being killed by lions, being trampled by elephants,
1:15:07 > 1:15:10they're losing their crops,
1:15:10 > 1:15:12that they do not share their value system.
1:15:13 > 1:15:16If you cannot empathise with the local people,
1:15:16 > 1:15:19then you're not going to be at all successful in protecting them in
1:15:19 > 1:15:20the long-term.
1:15:22 > 1:15:26On the other hand, you have the hunters who are convinced that where
1:15:26 > 1:15:30they operate, they're the last bastions of support to protect
1:15:30 > 1:15:32these areas, but to an animal welfare organisation,
1:15:32 > 1:15:34no, no animal must die.
1:15:37 > 1:15:41The reality of hunting is that, yes, there are a few places where hunting
1:15:41 > 1:15:46does make a difference, but in many areas the economics don't add up.
1:15:46 > 1:15:47They're not generating enough money.
1:15:47 > 1:15:51The land is being lost, especially in the most corrupt countries.
1:15:51 > 1:15:54We've seen it happen over and over in many parts of Africa,
1:15:54 > 1:15:56where they go out and say, "Everything's fine."
1:15:56 > 1:15:58No, it's not fine.
1:15:58 > 1:15:59Things are declining.
1:16:10 > 1:16:13What we do is run the camp and kind of manage the on ground management
1:16:13 > 1:16:17of the anti-poaching in the area, and we get a daily rate
1:16:17 > 1:16:20when foreign hunters come in to hunt here, which...
1:16:21 > 1:16:24..really subsidises the money that I have to run my anti-poaching.
1:16:27 > 1:16:30You can imagine with all that dust and dirt and rain...
1:16:32 > 1:16:34..our firearms take a bit of a hammering.
1:16:34 > 1:16:36That's why we like these AK action.
1:16:36 > 1:16:37Good old AK, built in Israel.
1:16:37 > 1:16:40- Can't really go wrong with it. - No, no.
1:16:45 > 1:16:47We're fighting to save this...
1:16:49 > 1:16:50..for the community...
1:16:51 > 1:16:55..while people kill it.
1:16:59 > 1:17:01It really is pretty weird.
1:17:01 > 1:17:04We're fighting to save something so that somebody else can kill it.
1:17:06 > 1:17:09It just comes back to control...
1:17:10 > 1:17:13..ethic, morals, sustainability.
1:17:15 > 1:17:16You can assimilate the two,
1:17:16 > 1:17:19the poachers and the commercial hunters,
1:17:19 > 1:17:21but the difference is, the poachers...
1:17:23 > 1:17:25..they shoot anything for their teeth.
1:17:25 > 1:17:27Literally anything.
1:17:27 > 1:17:30And they will shoot every last one that there is
1:17:30 > 1:17:35because there's a commercial driven desire for these teeth.
1:17:35 > 1:17:39On the hunting side, if done correctly...
1:17:40 > 1:17:43..where there is a very carefully measured off-take...
1:17:44 > 1:17:46..I can live with that.
1:17:47 > 1:17:49Killing every last animal, no, can't live with that.
1:17:49 > 1:17:51Won't do that.
1:17:51 > 1:17:52That's just wrong.
1:17:56 > 1:17:58- You loaded up there?- No.
1:17:58 > 1:18:00You got a loader? You never know what we can bump here.
1:18:04 > 1:18:07- I'm not really after a buffalo. - OK.
1:18:07 > 1:18:09- You know what we're going to need? Bait.- Yeah.
1:18:09 > 1:18:12We've got three more places to bait, but it's your call.
1:18:12 > 1:18:13You don't need to feel pressured.
1:18:13 > 1:18:15How much am I paying for the hippo for bait?
1:18:15 > 1:18:174,750.
1:18:17 > 1:18:19- And how much for the buffalo?- 55. - OK.
1:18:29 > 1:18:31- OK. - When you're ready, take it.
1:18:31 > 1:18:33GUNSHOT
1:18:40 > 1:18:41Hey!
1:18:50 > 1:18:55This is one of now probably 17 baits we've put up so far for Philip.
1:18:55 > 1:18:57We've used hippo, zebra, impala...
1:18:58 > 1:19:01..and our biggest problem is they're rotting really quick.
1:19:01 > 1:19:04You know, they're only lasting three days, so...
1:19:04 > 1:19:07hopefully the cats find us the next two days while they're still fresh
1:19:07 > 1:19:08and give us a bit of luck.
1:19:12 > 1:19:17You know, the Bible says, "He gave man dominion over all the animals,"
1:19:17 > 1:19:19and that dominion comes with a responsibility,
1:19:19 > 1:19:22but it also means it's the right to use.
1:19:22 > 1:19:25And so I think that is a big part of it, and it's a big part of
1:19:25 > 1:19:26appreciating God's creation.
1:19:26 > 1:19:28And some people think, "Well, how can you go out
1:19:28 > 1:19:30"and shoot God's creation?"
1:19:30 > 1:19:34That's a totally false statement, a false point of view.
1:19:34 > 1:19:35God said, "We have dominion over the animals" -
1:19:35 > 1:19:38that means we can do what we choose with them.
1:19:38 > 1:19:41It's a very powerful statement that's in the Bible.
1:19:41 > 1:19:42GUNSHOT
1:19:43 > 1:19:44They might go that way.
1:19:44 > 1:19:47- Give me the rounds, anyway. - GUNSHOT
1:19:47 > 1:19:49THEY LAUGH
1:19:49 > 1:19:50GUNSHOT
1:19:50 > 1:19:53I think it does make it more special for me, as a believer,
1:19:53 > 1:19:55to go out there and pursue these animals and know that God
1:19:55 > 1:19:58placed them, and when I put my hand on that lion, I can promise you...
1:20:00 > 1:20:02..at that moment, as with all of my life,
1:20:02 > 1:20:05anybody that believes in evolution is a complete fool.
1:20:06 > 1:20:08I just don't understand how people can't understand
1:20:08 > 1:20:10that God raised that animal into existence.
1:20:10 > 1:20:12FLIES BUZZ
1:20:28 > 1:20:31FLIES BUZZ
1:20:46 > 1:20:47Oh, my.
1:21:14 > 1:21:16A thought came to mind as I was coming here
1:21:16 > 1:21:20and beginning to feel the emotion and the anticipation
1:21:20 > 1:21:21of this big hunt.
1:21:24 > 1:21:25I mean, I've been a...
1:21:25 > 1:21:28I've been a hunter my whole life.
1:21:28 > 1:21:30They say I fell out of the hunting vehicle when I was two
1:21:30 > 1:21:33or three years old and landed on my head, maybe that's what's wrong
1:21:33 > 1:21:34with me, sometimes.
1:21:34 > 1:21:38And, you know, I lost my dad a few years ago, and he was a hunter.
1:21:40 > 1:21:43At the time, I was a little angry with him, the way he would treat me,
1:21:43 > 1:21:47but he would do funny things to me to make me learn to hunt.
1:21:47 > 1:21:50We'd be in a pick-up, and whether it was a rabbit or a deer,
1:21:50 > 1:21:52summer or winter,
1:21:52 > 1:21:55we'd be driving along and he would see some game and all he would do is
1:21:55 > 1:21:58turn the engine off and sit there and not say a word.
1:21:58 > 1:22:01And I would have to find the animal and get out of the vehicle
1:22:01 > 1:22:02and go take a shot.
1:22:05 > 1:22:08But, no, he challenged me. My dad challenged me in many ways.
1:22:08 > 1:22:09That was just one way.
1:22:13 > 1:22:17And I think that he would be really tickled to be able
1:22:17 > 1:22:19to tell the people back home at the coffee shop -
1:22:19 > 1:22:23and when I say coffee shop, I mean the Dairy Queen -
1:22:23 > 1:22:25that his son is out hunting a lion.
1:22:25 > 1:22:28I think if he was around, he'd have really got a big kick out of that.
1:22:36 > 1:22:39HE WHISPERS: It would be better if it was a little bit up, but it's...
1:22:39 > 1:22:41Yeah. But it'll work.
1:22:41 > 1:22:43But if you could make it up a little bit.
1:22:43 > 1:22:45Down just a bit. Right there.
1:22:56 > 1:23:00I really feel as if they know that they're in danger.
1:23:05 > 1:23:09They know that they're not equipped to avoid extinction.
1:23:16 > 1:23:19It is humans that have messed up their lives.
1:23:24 > 1:23:25We are to blame.
1:23:33 > 1:23:37And it makes me understand that I cannot give up.
1:23:37 > 1:23:39THUNDER RUMBLES
1:23:53 > 1:23:57Why should we save any species from extinction?
1:24:01 > 1:24:03It's almost like, why should we breathe?
1:24:05 > 1:24:07It's because it's us!
1:24:07 > 1:24:11Surely we want our world to survive?
1:24:13 > 1:24:16We want our world to be a better place.
1:24:27 > 1:24:29GUNSHOT, BIRDS SQUAWK
1:24:45 > 1:24:46Oh, my...
1:24:48 > 1:24:49Ready?
1:24:55 > 1:24:57Fantastic, bud. An excellent, excellent shot.
1:25:02 > 1:25:03HE SIGHS, FLIES BUZZ
1:25:03 > 1:25:04Oh, my gosh.
1:25:39 > 1:25:40Maybe.
1:25:51 > 1:25:53Just lay down in the sticks, didn't he?
1:25:58 > 1:26:00I think that was a good idea.
1:26:28 > 1:26:32You don't want those to get a hold of you, I promise you that.
1:26:32 > 1:26:33Those teeth are just...
1:26:35 > 1:26:36..absolutely magnificent.
1:26:40 > 1:26:43What a mane. Look at that red and the black.
1:26:46 > 1:26:47The black on his ears.
1:26:48 > 1:26:49Green eyes.
1:26:53 > 1:26:55And he is an old, old male.
1:26:55 > 1:26:56Really a one-of-a-kind.
1:26:58 > 1:27:02I made the decision several months ago that I was coming to hunt lion,
1:27:02 > 1:27:04and this is my trophy and there's not any bureaucrat
1:27:04 > 1:27:06that can take it away from me.
1:27:14 > 1:27:16- OK, Martin, can we set him up to take some pictures?- OK.