1 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,760 This programme contains very strong language 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,240 and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. 3 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:33,880 WHISPERED: OK, just get comfortable and get ready. 4 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,720 Take your time. 5 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,880 And aim just to the right leg of the feeder, OK? 6 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,960 You can wait if you want, but that's a shelter shot out there. 7 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:48,960 GUNSHOT 8 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,080 Ho-ho! You put him down, son! 9 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:53,640 Where's that spike? 10 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,600 Oh, he's getting up, Dad. He's not going anywhere, don't worry. 11 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:02,000 GUNSHOT 12 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,880 You killed the doe. Off the spike. 13 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:06,400 Oh. OK, let's go. 14 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,040 Hold that. 15 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,120 Yes! 16 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:13,680 Hold this gun like this. 17 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,200 How's that? Feels good. I need the head up like this, OK? 18 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,360 Cos, if it's young, it doesn't look great. Let's try that! 19 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,840 OK. Oh, that's what we want right there. 20 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,240 Smile! 21 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:30,680 First trophy buck. 22 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,120 Like this. 23 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,120 One more, just smile. We're done. 24 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:40,920 OK. 25 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,960 As they say, that's history. 26 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:44,680 No more doe and spike culling for you. 27 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,160 You're onto the big trophies. 28 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,000 HE LAUGHS 29 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:25,920 LOW GRUNTS 30 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,040 The head. 31 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,000 INDISTINCT URGENT INSTRUCTIONS 32 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:52,920 One, two, three. 33 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,120 Short deep breaths, eh? 34 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,760 Make sure that their breathing's good. Yeah. Short breaths. 35 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,000 380. 36 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,560 Where's the brush? Give us the brush. 37 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,800 Injecting. Yeah. Can we go? 38 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,120 We've got a rhino left on its side now. Let's go. 39 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,960 The operation goes very quickly. 40 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:51,800 It's painless, 41 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:56,360 probably less danger than a human being having its wisdom tooth out. 42 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,560 He will be back with his friends within minutes. 43 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,240 It'll take about two years 44 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,160 before he goes through the same procedure again 45 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,360 and we know that the poachers prefer rhinos with long horns 46 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:11,800 and pointed horns. 47 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,960 Every two years, to save his life, I think, 48 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,000 if he had an opinion to give to you, he would say, 49 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,920 "I'm very happy to sacrifice my horn, in order to save my life." 50 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,600 There he is, already walking normally. 51 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:28,640 He looks fine. 52 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,360 I truly believe that I have the recipe 53 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,960 to save the rhino from extinction. 54 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,040 Sell the horns, keep the rhinos alive and breeding more and more. 55 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,880 I will give you a challenge. 56 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,080 Give me one animal that's gone extinct 57 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,720 while farmers were breeding it and making money out of it. 58 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,960 There's not one. Not one. 59 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,920 SHEEP AND LAMBS BLEAT 60 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,920 That's a Dorper lamb. 61 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,800 That's what we do. We raise babies. 62 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,760 LAMB BLEATS LOUDLY 63 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,920 We feed them, we keep the predators out of them and we... 64 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,920 ..try to breed good genetics and try to raise the next generation. 65 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,160 All right, I've got you. I've got your friend. Your little brother. 66 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:12,880 Let's go. 67 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,240 Those lambs will be three months old when they're weaned 68 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,200 and they will go to a small packer in central Texas 69 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,080 and that lamb will be harvested 70 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:23,360 and, typically, will go into your high-end grocery chains 71 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,680 and then to a few specialty restaurants. 72 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:29,800 CAR HORN 73 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,400 I think we have a problem with people thinking that all animals are pets. 74 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,280 I don't think you can explain that to people. 75 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:43,080 If they don't understand that you raise a chicken to kill a chicken to eat chicken, 76 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,160 if they can't understand that, 77 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,480 it's their infantile frame of mind that I don't know how to, 78 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,320 how to get in their mind. 79 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,880 All I can tell them is, I love raising these animals. 80 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,960 I love those lambs. 81 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,400 Even the ones that are going to be somebody's lamb chops this summer for July fourth. 82 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:00,960 But that's what they're for. 83 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,520 They're not for anything else. 84 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,640 Pull him. To the side, guys. 85 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:37,320 One, two, three. Come on. 86 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,320 Keep it on the grass. 87 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,160 You are closing his nose. He must breathe. 88 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,200 You can't put your hand there. 89 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:24,920 Let me close your nose also. 90 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:37,640 OK? Thank you, guys. 91 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,320 There's a big industry in our country. Not just the crocodiles, 92 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,320 the lions, the sables, the buffalo, 93 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,120 everything it's being bred for purpose on the end of the day. 94 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:52,160 So, yeah, sure, some of them will be hunted. 95 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,880 We are as humans going to eat it, 96 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:57,120 or we're going to use the skin 97 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:58,960 and then that's a cycle of life. 98 00:08:58,960 --> 00:08:59,960 SHOUTING 99 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:05,960 John! John! 100 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,280 Slowly, slowly, slowly. 101 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,000 Those are still wild animals, 102 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,360 even if they've been kept in captivity, like this, 103 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,600 they'll kill you in an instant and eat you up. 104 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,880 So then, once it's closed up, 105 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:02,120 you load it on and it's ready for transport to its next destination. 106 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,760 If you don't come to Vegas, 107 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:43,120 I think your business will eventually won't make it. 108 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:44,600 This is the place to come 109 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,880 and everyone tries to be better than the next person. 110 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,720 It doesn't matter if he's breeding lions, or buffalo, or sable, 111 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,920 it's a passion to have your wild game 112 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,480 and to be able to breed them and make sure you get better quality 113 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:01,040 and genetics and that, and you're actually proud of it. 114 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:07,800 The Safari Club International show 115 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,600 is the largest hunting convention in the planet. 116 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,360 We have 2,000 booths that are out there on the floor. 117 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,640 We'll probably run 20,000 different folks through here 118 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:20,920 from all over the world... 119 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,240 ..and you'll be able to see anything that you want, 120 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:30,280 in terms of hunting, hunting support, and conservation. 121 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,400 For you, eight animals, big cats. 122 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,440 I know that a lot of people are confused 123 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,320 how hunting and conservation go together. 124 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,560 Hunt South Africa on a ten-day... 125 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:45,480 About two hours ago, there was an auction item 126 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,200 that was an elephant hunt. 127 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,320 20,000. Let's go. 22.5. Blow him out of the water. 22.5. 128 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,200 Yo! 129 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,280 And that elephant hunt sold for about $50,000 130 00:11:55,280 --> 00:12:00,200 and that money will all go back into conservation. 131 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,480 Ha! Sold right there. $18,000. 18. 132 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:04,560 APPLAUSE 133 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,720 The coat is not exchangeable and model is not included. 134 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,400 Another at $29,000. 135 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,640 I don't know when my little granddaughter says 136 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,480 "I don't know why my grandma wants to shoot a zebra." 137 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,840 So, I don't know. I'm losing face with my three-year-old little granddaughter 138 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,720 cos I'm going to go shoot a zebra. 139 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,560 And crocodiles are really mean. 140 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:30,040 So I don't feel bad about killing one of those. 141 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,360 Besides that, I want pair of boots. 142 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:33,680 And a purse, and a wallet. 143 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:35,680 And a belt. 144 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,760 You can not only pick the species you want, 145 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,920 but you can pick the actual animal you want, 146 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,680 so you can see if you want a male, or a female, 147 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:47,320 older, younger, colour, type of fur. 148 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,280 You can just pick whatever animal you want 149 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:53,360 from the menu that they offer you, see the price, and book the kill. 150 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:04,080 The Safari Club Convention 151 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,200 is the ultimate meat market for exotic species. 152 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,480 And one of the prime attractions 153 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,280 is to get a big five grand slam. 154 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,000 So you shoot one of each of the following species. 155 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,960 Buffalo, which would cost you about $8-9,000. 156 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,080 Leopards for about 20. 157 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:22,640 Elephants for 45. 158 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,520 Lions for 50,000. 159 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:29,560 And most expensive, because it's the rarest - the rhino for $350,000. 160 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,600 So there's all this sort of stuff that encourages this collecting, 161 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,520 this obsessiveness for more and more and more 162 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,280 and the status is applied to the individual hunter 163 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:41,960 who achieves those ends. 164 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,160 I happened to be at Safari club and they were discussing fish and wildlife 165 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,040 and all the bans they kept instituting 166 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,440 and that there was a rumour that they wanted to put lions 167 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,120 on the threatened list and further regulate their take. 168 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,800 And I decided at that moment, that if the big five was my goal, 169 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,600 then I had to step my plans up, drastically. 170 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:05,680 It's ready. 171 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:11,800 Wait, wait. And take him. 172 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:21,680 I love it. 173 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,560 It's exciting to see people get here. 174 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:30,920 They are going on a big hunt, so they're excited. 175 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,280 They've worked very hard to earn the money 176 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,400 to be able to go pay for this hunt 177 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,280 and they come here with anticipation. 178 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,200 They come here with a lot of nervousness, 179 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,360 because, in Africa, it is dangerous. 180 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,320 We're right on the edge of a herd of elephants. Want you to get bull. 181 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,200 You hit him, just keep hitting him again till he's down. Sound good? 182 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:49,840 Sounds good. Follow me up here. 183 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:52,640 If you go back 1,000 years, 184 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,240 you know, the balance of nature was pretty, pretty stable. 185 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,680 Unfortunately, man has kind of screwed this up. 186 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,160 And we have encroached on so much natural land, 187 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,200 that the species, all the species, now have to be managed. 188 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,160 For instance, too many elephants in Botswana. 189 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,720 On the right, on the right. There he is. 190 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,680 Hit him again. And he's down. 191 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:14,000 He's down. 192 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,800 Of course, we can't do this with live animals but 193 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,240 it kind of gets you pumped up, what you're going to feel on the real deal. 194 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:28,720 Hunters' remorse. 195 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,240 It's not been something I've experienced recently. 196 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,080 But as a child, I certainly remember it. 197 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,520 From the flight deck for those of you leaving us, 198 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,000 I'd just like to welcome you to Katima. 199 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,040 On behalf of the crew thank you for flying with... 200 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,200 When I was a little boy, I remember I had a BB gun. 201 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,000 I can vividly remember my mother telling me, 202 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,040 "You can go shoot birds but don't shoot a red bird." 203 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,320 What did I do? 204 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,960 I went and shot a red bird. 205 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,560 And I can still remember holding that bird in my hands 206 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,400 and looking at its beak and just seeing how beautiful it was 207 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,240 and how it was made. 208 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,880 Right there in that moment, 209 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:15,720 I realised that there's no way 210 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,880 I could have loved that bird any more. 211 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:20,080 Even though it was dead. 212 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,160 And I think a lot of us, as trophy hunters, feel the same way. 213 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,680 We just... We just want that experience to go... 214 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,280 ..and hunt that animal one time. 215 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:33,920 We'd really just want one. 216 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:40,720 Where are you going? 217 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,680 LOW GRUNT 218 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:49,600 What's wrong, my baby? 219 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,200 PHONE RINGTONE 220 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:01,160 Yeah, Johnny? It's not a good morning again this morning. 221 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,040 Oh, fuck. Now what? 222 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:05,840 It's a dead rhino there. 223 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,840 An adult rhino? 224 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:09,440 Yeah. 225 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:10,520 Fuck! 226 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,280 Has she got a calf, Johnny? 227 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:16,640 Yeah, she's got big two-year-old calf. 228 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,720 Two-year-old calf. Yeah. 229 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,560 Ugh! Fuck me. It never stops, does it? 230 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,600 No. 231 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:32,080 Heartbreaking. 232 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,040 When a calf doesn't know what to do with itself. 233 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:34,920 I have lost quite a few of my breeding stock. 234 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,800 Disease will always be a factor. 235 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,720 Unfortunately, so will poaching. 236 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,240 The odds are stacked against them. 237 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:46,800 And... 238 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,240 ..I'm always for the underdog... 239 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:52,840 ..but more to the point... 240 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:55,760 ..I got to know them 241 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,280 and they are the last animal in the world 242 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,360 that deserves the persecution. 243 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:02,520 They don't deserve it. 244 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:03,960 They are the nicest, 245 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,840 most user-friendly animal 246 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:11,200 that wants to stay this side of extinction. 247 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,320 They definitely are the most magical creatures. 248 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,800 I can sit and watch them for hours and hours and hours. 249 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:32,760 And they're ancient. 250 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,760 They don't look like they belong in today's life, 251 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,000 yet they're still here. 252 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:42,400 I'm hoping that people get a whiff of places like this. 253 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:43,880 What we're trying to do here, 254 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:45,840 that more of them will start thinking 255 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,160 of opening their own breeding operations, 256 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,200 so that, hopefully, together, we can revive the numbers, 257 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,840 before we destroy another species because of mankind. 258 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,280 Almost every other wild animal has to be killed 259 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,320 to get what people want. 260 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,000 Whether that is horns, skin, meat, 261 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,240 rhino is the only exception 262 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,480 and that's why I concentrate on rhinos, 263 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,160 because you don't have to hunt them, you don't have to kill them. 264 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,960 In fact, you shouldn't, because they're growing gold for you. 265 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:33,440 The rhino horn belief has been around for millions of years. 266 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,440 Unfortunately, there are more people that believe in rhino horn 267 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,640 than there are Christians on this earth, 268 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,800 so it's very difficult... 269 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,040 You're going to go and tell 600 million Christians, or whatever, 270 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,240 that God doesn't exist, by the same token, 271 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,720 you're not going to tell people rhino horn doesn't work. 272 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,200 This one weighs about four kilos. 273 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,040 In Vietnam, on the black market, the retail value of this horn 274 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,160 would be about a quarter of a million dollars. 275 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,080 It's more expensive than gold, or heroin, by weight. 276 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:10,440 The illogical part of it is that I have four tonnes of rhino horn 277 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,600 in expensive security, 278 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,520 which very conservatively, I could get $60 million. 279 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,040 But we're not allowed to sell it. 280 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,040 When I started this project, 281 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,920 it was legal to sell rhino horn in South Africa. 282 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:36,880 In 2009, our government put a moratorium on the trade in rhino horn... 283 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,360 ..but, since the ban, poaching has skyrocketed. 284 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:02,120 The very crook who now will kill a rhino and sell it illegally, 285 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:06,080 if he could sell the horn legally, he will never kill a rhino. 286 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,320 Who would kill the hen that lays the golden egg? 287 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,400 Maybe somebody's watching for crocs. 288 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,360 I hope. 289 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:24,480 Ooh! 290 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,760 There's a little hole right there. 291 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:30,880 It's all good. 292 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:52,400 This is one of the largest destinations, probably, in Africa 293 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,640 where there's no fences. It's absolutely open. 294 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,520 You have to work for your trophy. 295 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:00,960 We believe, yeah, that... 296 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,080 ..if you want to hunt, it's all on the food. 297 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,400 It's walk and stalk. 298 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,280 It's giving, also, the animal a chance. 299 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,560 So, for us, the three things is, 300 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:16,560 if he hears you, he smells you, or if he sees you, it's game over. 301 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,760 HE WHISPERS 302 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,560 The build-up to pulling that trigger, in my case, 303 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,920 started at 18 months ago. 304 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,480 So it's a long build-up to that point. 305 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,960 Preparation, planning, buying plane tickets, 306 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,600 paying a deposit on safari, 307 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,280 talking with your PH about the plans. 308 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,520 "What are we going to do? How are we going to hunt him?" 309 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:44,920 All this stalking, planning... 310 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,680 ..and then, finding if the animal's coming. 311 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,200 And then the animal's there. 312 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,440 And then, you pull the trigger. 313 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,080 And, then - boom! - you've got him. 314 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,760 And then, all of the anticipation changes into a different emotion, 315 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,800 of joy and relief... 316 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,040 ..and excitement and anticipation, 317 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,280 because you want to go over to him and see... 318 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:17,960 ..hell, what does he look like? 319 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,520 What does he feel like? 320 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,280 What does he... 321 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:22,360 Where did he fall? 322 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,520 BRANCHES SNAP 323 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,280 Which one are you looking at? 324 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:52,560 This one here on the left. 325 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:53,600 OK. 326 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,160 Wait. 327 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:06,760 Wait there. Yeah. 328 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,080 No, no, no. That's a young bull. 329 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:12,440 Let's go back. 330 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,040 Let's go, let's go, let's go. 331 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:25,160 Philip! 332 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,440 I think it's too dangerous. 333 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,400 Too many, they're too blocked up and... 334 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,240 All the ones I saw had good toes, the big ones. 335 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:39,600 Yeah, but they're female. 336 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,840 It's all females we are looking for, an old, 337 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,240 old animal that we can harvest for meat. 338 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,760 That's OK. Keep going. 339 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,440 For the better part of two centuries now, 340 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,080 you had this hunting culture, 341 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,400 first in Britain and now in America, 342 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,400 that it's somehow rugged and exciting 343 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,440 to be out in the wilderness and hunting, 344 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,400 and Teddy Roosevelt bought into that 345 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,320 when he hunted thousands of animals, 346 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,560 including something like 5,000 mammals 347 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,800 and started to record all of these kills. 348 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,120 The hunters' accounts of what they're doing 349 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:39,120 makes me sick to my stomach, sometimes, 350 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:42,280 about finding this amazing bull elephant and putting a bullet 351 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,480 in the animal's head and that gives them a rush of excitement. 352 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,040 Now, they cloak that in money, conservation, helping people, 353 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,080 so, yeah, Roosevelt is declaring all these parks National Parks 354 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,520 and protecting wilderness 355 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,600 but he's also killing thousands of animals at the same time, 356 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,640 because he wanted to be able to do that hunting. 357 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,480 He wanted to be able to consume those wild animals. 358 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,800 The hunting industry is trying to convince people 359 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,720 that the way it was in Roosevelt's time 360 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,160 is the way it still is today. 361 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,080 A hunter was somebody who was willing to go out 362 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,960 and spend three weeks walking around on foot, tracking an elephant, 363 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,600 tracking a lion, to shoot it and take home a trophy. 364 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,600 There was a challenge, there was a sense of sport. 365 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,960 But what has happened in the last ten or 15 years 366 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,040 has been a growing segment of the hunting demographic 367 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,760 which are referred to as "the shooters" 368 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,440 and the shooters may have to spend as much money as it takes 369 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,720 to get a three-week permit 370 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,360 but if they can kill everything in the first two days, 371 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:50,640 they'll do it and they'll fly home. 372 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,040 It's that mentality that really fed the birth 373 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,560 of the canned hunting industry. 374 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:03,040 Basically, you've gone shopping at some import-export place 375 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,920 and you've got your rug, you got your mantelpiece. 376 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,880 But it's not sport, it's just killing. 377 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:15,960 GUNSHOT 378 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:19,320 OK, guys? Yeah. Very. 379 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:24,720 Shit! I'm out of bullets. 380 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,160 Come here, come here, come here. 381 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,840 Piece of shit. 382 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,520 Where is it now? 383 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,800 It's going to move. 384 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,600 That is one big-ass fucking crocodile! 385 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:45,800 Let me tell you, though, 386 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,760 the adrenaline has been worth every penny of it, 387 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,240 as long as we can fetch it out. Something's coming out there. 388 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,760 Yeah. It's coming out there. Oh, fuck. 389 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,520 That's... Oh, my gosh! That's not yours. 390 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,000 Yes. Is that yours? 391 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,080 I don't know. I don't know. No, but I want to shoot a rhino. 392 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,520 I want to have... Yeah, I want to have two. 393 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,040 That can't be yours, swimming like that. 394 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,200 That's impossible. Oh, no! 395 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,960 I don't know what that is. 396 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,320 It keeps like croaking. 397 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,800 It is. 398 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,200 Watch it. I want to shoot this one. 399 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,120 I'm not sure. Is that the one? 400 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,320 Yeah. 401 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,160 I'll shoot it with this one. Going to put my beer down. 402 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,200 Not drop it. 403 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,400 What's this? 404 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,480 The blood. Blood? 405 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,560 From the last crocodile. Oh, the last crocodile. Oh! Yeah. 406 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,600 It's just waiting for us to get close. 407 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:46,920 Oh, it's moving it's eyes. 408 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,160 Need to watch out. 409 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,040 Shoot it again. 410 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,520 Should I just shoot it in the brain? 411 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:01,200 God! 412 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,840 Now it's dead. Oh, you motherfucker! 413 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,680 LAUGHTER 414 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,400 Now he's destroyed. No, they'll fix it up. 415 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,240 They'll fix it, Sarah. They'll fix it. 416 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,240 That's what taxidermists do. 417 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,040 That's why you pay them. 418 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,440 I'm done for the day. It's party time, boys. 419 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,320 How much for that sucker? That white one? 420 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,400 That's a big white lion. It would be about 35,000. 421 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,800 35,000? How much was Cecil? 422 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,800 Cecil was expensive, like, 50,000. 423 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,560 I was in the cattle industry for, like, ten, 12 years 424 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,280 and because we had a lot of game in the area, 425 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,960 I had some other outfitters those years which always contact me 426 00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:02,640 and said, "Please, Christo, can I bring a client over?" 427 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,080 "I'd like to come and hunt." 428 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,240 And I'd say, "OK, fine, bring the clients." 429 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,920 And then I start meeting overseas clients 430 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,880 and it looked to me like it can become a good business. 431 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,040 So what we offer our clients is days at the lodge, 432 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,560 there is a Jacuzzi and then the hunting area. 433 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,840 You can drive around, try and spot the animals, 434 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,880 you get off and you try and get the client up to a point 435 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,600 where he can have a clear, good shot at that animal. 436 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,680 Good shot. Good shot, buddy. 437 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,120 Normally in the middle of the day, when it's really hot, 438 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,960 we bring the clients into the blind area 439 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,560 where they can sit down for the rest of the afternoon. 440 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,720 So it's making it really comfortable. 441 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:51,480 The client can stand straight up and be able to shoot 442 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,920 through that slot over there. 443 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,200 It's maybe, like, 25 yards. 444 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,200 We will put some feeders out here, as well, 445 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,920 so that the animals can only come into the certain areas 446 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,760 where there is water for drinking. 447 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,200 Then we clear out around all these water points where the blinds are 448 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,960 because you would like to see the animals when they come in 449 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,680 and that makes it an exciting hunt 450 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,440 and it makes it a natural environment, 451 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,240 which is very important. 452 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,320 What did you kill? You're just wasting petrol. 453 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:19,920 Yeah, it's not a photo safari. 454 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,320 You've got the wrong guide. 455 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,280 You should get a guide which kills things. 456 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:24,400 LAUGHTER 457 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,240 Sorry! OK, sorry! 458 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,440 Just keep in mind, we don't feed no Americans 459 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,080 if they don't shoot something. 460 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,960 I would love to have a giraffe. 461 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,080 I probably would shoot it myself, too. 462 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:40,440 Oh, here's some more. 463 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,880 He says it's too expensive and we don't have room for it in our house. 464 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,120 I would find room for it in our house, 465 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:50,080 even if I probably would have to build onto the trophy room, 466 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,720 which I don't want to. 467 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:02,800 A beautiful animal. I got one of those last year. 468 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,800 I still have a warthog and a baboon and a bush buck, a bush pig, 469 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,000 a caracal, so the list is still pretty big 470 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,840 and we have the rest of this day and two more days to hunt. 471 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,800 So we'll try to do our best to get the most on the list, 472 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,720 but it's not as easy. 473 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,400 It seems like once we're going for them, they're real skittish. 474 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,280 Now we just like to get all this grass out of the way. 475 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,360 Wash all the blood off. 476 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,720 You try and start with plains game. 477 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,280 You know, animals which they get the feeling 478 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,760 and get used to our bush and environment. 479 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,840 Right, Joe, smile. 480 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,520 And then, eventually, they've got the experience 481 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,560 to allow them to go after the big five. 482 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,520 This is the most expensive one. 483 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,280 Damn, that was a good shot. 484 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:09,440 Ah, beautiful photo. 485 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,120 One, two... Do you want to kiss? Yes. 486 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,720 Oh, that's a nice one! There you go. 487 00:34:14,720 --> 00:34:17,960 Now I'm happy, she got a second one and oil's up to $2. 488 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,920 What? Oil's up. Oil's up $2. 489 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,320 Let's add another one to the list. 490 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,080 Let's add that bitch to the list. 491 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,760 Right, I'm going to start you really low. 492 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,400 And what do we say? What about one million here? 493 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,600 500,000 now. 500, 500, 500, 600,000. 494 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,680 I've got 600,000. 800,000. One million. Thank you, sir. 495 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,600 1 million that we have now. I've got a 1.2, now. 496 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,360 I've got a 1.5, and 730 there. 497 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,160 I've got 1,730,000 now. 498 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,400 Do we have 1,750,000 here? 499 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,200 Every outfitter, if he has a lot of clients, 500 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:55,640 or runs a good hunting business, you kind of shoot out your animals, 501 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,000 so you have to buy in new blood. 502 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,840 The breeding is very important because that's where the money is. 503 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,360 The money is in the breeding. 504 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,640 AUCTION CHANT AND BIDDING CONTINUES 505 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,880 We've had buffalo go for between four and five million US dollars 506 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:22,680 and also sable bulls go for four or five million US dollars. 507 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,440 It's good for the industry. 508 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:25,920 Very big demand and a good market. 509 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,640 At 2,600,000, and done. 510 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,040 You have the... 511 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,160 You know, the capitalist system, the profit motive, 512 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,400 making money off of wildlife. 513 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,240 So it's a remarkable development, but in South Africa, 514 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:45,800 they went through an incredible period of removing nature 515 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,160 from their countryside in the 1800s. 516 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,400 And they'd literally removed everything. 517 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,720 It's only been in the last 20, 25 years 518 00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:57,240 that there has been this recognition 519 00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:00,000 that they could take private land and private owners themselves 520 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,600 could profit by restoring these areas. 521 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,760 Now, until recently, this land was mostly used for livestock, 522 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,560 but a lot of people decided, 523 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,240 "Well, we could get more revenue if we do game ranching." 524 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:17,040 You'd actually get much more money than raising cows. 525 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,200 In this model, they're filling the market 526 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,240 by first killing rare ungulate species, like sable, 527 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:26,840 that are still attractive for hunters. 528 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,600 And you can also start breeding your buffalo, so they have abnormally huge horns. 529 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,120 And then, as the market saturates, people are thinking, 530 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:40,800 "Ah, well, you know, I've got all this land and we could bring back big five." 531 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,840 Now you actually have got a restored ecosystem. 532 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,240 And so this has been a success story. 533 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:54,600 There are far more lions in South Africa now 534 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,400 than there were 100 years ago. 535 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,440 There is far more predators, in general, in South Africa 536 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,120 than there were 100 years ago. 537 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,080 Initially, it may have been because 538 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,960 this would have involved the slaughter of some animals, 539 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,800 but then you could go towards a more naturalistic thing 540 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,880 that would not have happened otherwise. 541 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,480 If we are only going to restrict... 542 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,920 ..what we view as domesticated animals 543 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,640 to those species that have been domesticated 544 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,960 hundreds of thousands of years ago, 545 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,040 then we are just going to see a lot of these species go away 546 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,800 and, I think, that there are a few species, like rhino, 547 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,640 that there should be rhino farms. 548 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,000 One needs to recognise 549 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,600 that what they've achieved in South Africa 550 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,280 should not be lost. 551 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,360 This was a breeding buffalo bull. 552 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,320 This buffalo bull was bought for millions... 553 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:02,920 ..and, eventually, 554 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:07,920 he was done breeding and we had to put him out of there for hunting. 555 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,800 So we got the Canadian client, he came over, 556 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,200 and he was very happy to harvest to such a beautiful trophy. 557 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:15,800 So nothing goes for waste. 558 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,760 Nothing. Even that animal. 559 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:22,120 And we hope that, maybe, there's 50, 70 babies of him running around. 560 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,560 But eventually, one day, he is going to be honoured, 561 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,680 to put him up on the trophy room where someone can walk in and say, 562 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,720 "You know what, that was a top breeder." 563 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:33,400 And he will still be honoured today. 564 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,520 You look at him and say he was a great trophy. 565 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,920 He makes a real great trophy. 566 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:39,880 Do you ever get attached to a lion, 567 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,120 that it's hard to release it for a hunt? 568 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,560 Is there some animal like that that you are like, "Ah, this one." 569 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,320 All animals. 570 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:51,200 Doesn't matter what animal it is, if you love animals, 571 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:52,640 you will get attached to it. 572 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,400 You will go out there every day. 573 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,440 You see this animal, you are feeding him. 574 00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,920 The buffalo, your sable, of course, 575 00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:03,760 but there will be a time when you have to let go. 576 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,000 Cut. 577 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:12,320 You must cut it. 578 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:44,640 Yeah! 579 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,400 Did you see it? Congratulations. 580 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:54,800 You got him running away. Yeah! 581 00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:58,640 Oh, mercy! 582 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,240 HEAVY BREATHING 583 00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:08,480 He's done. 584 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,040 ELEPHANT GROANS 585 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,760 ELEPHANT MOANS 586 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,240 Maybe you could come to the side. 587 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:52,440 Where? To the chest. 588 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,080 Straight to there? Yeah. 589 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:13,760 Let's stand a little bit back 590 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:14,880 so you can just finish. 591 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,560 Cigarette? 592 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:03,920 Is he an old one, Philip? 593 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,480 No. Just a bull. 594 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:19,600 Doesn't have, uh, the trophy quality of a big elephant. 595 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,160 You know, he will never grow big. 596 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:23,840 So...yeah. 597 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:41,760 The "own use" elephant is an elephant that we have to hunt 598 00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,040 for the community. 599 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:44,360 As part of their quota, 600 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,080 they get some animals that they can harvest for meat. 601 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:53,120 15 years ago, people poached animals because of they want meat 602 00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:55,360 and there was no value to the animal for them. 603 00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,240 Now they know they must protect the wildlife. 604 00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:00,040 It's not only the meat, 605 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,080 there's actually money going back to their pockets. 606 00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,840 Break the door where people are sleeping? Yeah. 607 00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,960 These are recurring problems, then. Can't carry on like this. 608 00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,640 Somebody's going to get eaten. It's just a matter of time. 609 00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,440 Maybe it's better people cry about a dead lion 610 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,840 and we don't cry about a dead person. 611 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,400 Better that way. Yeah. 612 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:17,080 We go to extreme lengths to keep animals from being shot 613 00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,120 on the problem animal control programme. 614 00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,000 Probably 95% of the time 615 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,600 we can get the animals out of the communities 616 00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,840 and get them back into where they belong. 617 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,680 Try keep the two separate because they don't mix well. 618 00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,520 People are killed every year 619 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,320 by elephant, and hippo, and crocodile, and lion. 620 00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,440 It's part of life. 621 00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,360 Part of life here, anyway, certainly. 622 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,960 Lions come in, absolutely destroy a guide's livelihood 623 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,160 and he doesn't have a way to sustain his future. 624 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:55,680 Maybe does he end up in the bush, putting up wire snares and poaching? 625 00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,920 At the end of the day, you know, we're fighting a poaching war. 626 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:02,880 We are trying to recruit people. 627 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,280 We do the anti-poaching campaigns. 628 00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,080 Trying to teach people 629 00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,560 and explain to them the importance of animals. 630 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,520 The problem is people, they're suffering. 631 00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:20,520 So they are forced now to get into the bush, to make a living. 632 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:35,840 Stay, stay. 633 00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,320 Stay. Be a good boy. 634 00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:40,800 Be a good boy. Stay, stay. 635 00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,120 Yeah, David, you don't. Let me tell you, you definitely don't. 636 00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,600 That one over there was only 14 months old. 637 00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,720 I think two of them were pregnant 638 00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:05,240 and then another cow with a young calf was also wounded. 639 00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:07,680 She still has a bullet in her brisket. 640 00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,000 Whether that will prove fatal or not, we don't know. 641 00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:20,560 Fucking sick. 642 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:31,760 They can give you ten, 12, even 13 calves in their life. 643 00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:35,560 That is all wiped out... 644 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:38,640 ..in one moment. 645 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:48,800 The bodies were actually mutilated. 646 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,920 It means it is definitely, sort of, locals involved. 647 00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,400 I'm suspicious about the camp master, 648 00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,480 because the rhinos, A, know him, 649 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:03,240 and he knows how to go and stand in the middle of them, quietly, 650 00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:06,520 and then maybe, you know, two guys, 651 00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,160 one banging one side and one banging this side. 652 00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,200 That's how I pictured it in my nightmare. 653 00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,840 Tell this fucking lady now we are not tired of this. 654 00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:43,560 We are going to leave her with boots. 655 00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:49,480 Quickly! Quickly! 656 00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:49,760 We've known your father a long time. 657 00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,880 The future in the bush, ain't a future, there is no future there. 658 00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,920 Otherwise, you can die, leaving your family behind. 659 00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:01,080 Or to be jailed, and you are young guys 660 00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,240 with plenty of future to your side. 661 00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,760 I know if we stay like this we'll end up... 662 00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,040 That's not going forward. 663 00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,680 We're fighting this war for the community. This community. 664 00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,240 And another community further away want these elephants' teeth. 665 00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:26,160 They're worth a lot of money. 666 00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,640 And they will go to all lengths to get what they want. 667 00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,120 So, yeah. 668 00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:33,280 We need to look in the mirror every morning. 669 00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,000 I make a point of it every single morning. 670 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:36,720 I look in the mirror 671 00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:39,560 because we've got to make sure we don't cross the bounds... 672 00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:44,160 ..er...that we can't lose our humanity for humanity. 673 00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:46,680 I think that's really important. 674 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:51,080 It gets harsh and we do things sometimes that... 675 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,480 You saw it, scare people. 676 00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:59,080 But we, we have to do what... 677 00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,520 We have to keep this fight going. 678 00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,120 It's a war to save elephant from extinction. 679 00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,920 20 rhinos were poached. In less than a year. 680 00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:20,000 20. 681 00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:27,880 When I fired the previous security company, 682 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,480 I already had a suspicion that some of them were involved 683 00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:33,920 in the rhino poaching. 684 00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,240 One of the people in that team I really liked 685 00:55:38,240 --> 00:55:43,320 was the second in command, a chap by the name of Thomas. 686 00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:47,440 That is our friend Thomas at the time that he was here. 687 00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:51,240 I've got a very reliable report from the police 688 00:55:51,240 --> 00:55:53,920 that Thomas was in on the poaching. 689 00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,200 That is, emotionally, 690 00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,000 the worst part of this was... 691 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,720 Who are your friends now? 692 00:56:02,720 --> 00:56:05,080 Who are the friends of your rhino? 693 00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:07,040 You feel you can't trust anybody. 694 00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:12,760 I won't be able to guarantee zero losses on this property. 695 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:14,720 What I can say to you that most of those incidents 696 00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:16,360 which are mapped there 697 00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,520 are a direct result of having 698 00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:22,560 the wrong people on site, with not the right equipment, 699 00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,560 not the right training, not being highly motivated. 700 00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:28,160 So we will now change the policy completely 701 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,560 to have an elite reaction unit. 702 00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,960 I don't necessarily want them in a body bag, 703 00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,400 but I would like to upset them. 704 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,080 For them to say, "No, no, no, you don't want to go to that place." 705 00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:47,920 We have a case of shots being fired. 706 00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,720 While a lot of the politicians are praying for peace, 707 00:56:56,720 --> 00:56:58,960 we are praying for war. 708 00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,680 More conflict is probably needed in this arena to sort out the problem. 709 00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:10,080 Quite frankly, I feel poor cos they're all very expensive. 710 00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:14,440 Radar seems to be somewhere between ten and 20 million Rand. 711 00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:20,000 This chopper here is costing me nearly a million a month. 712 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,640 Then there is the underground man, the bloody information man... 713 00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:25,000 ..and...and...and! 714 00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,560 Derek, would that have come through as an alarm if you had tapped it 715 00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:32,600 on the top of the fence? 716 00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,640 I mean, why did they come in here? 717 00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:41,840 They walked from that bottom road there. 718 00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:45,080 They all went up there into this camp to come close to these. Why? 719 00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,480 Just cos they're fucking with my head, or why? 720 00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:58,760 You feel very helpless, you know. 721 00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:07,200 Good morning, darlings. 722 00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:10,000 Let me scratch you. 723 00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:13,480 This one is four months old. 724 00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:26,120 I don't think anybody ever thought any private person 725 00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:29,680 would have 1,300 rhinos. 726 00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:33,280 And next year we're going to have 200 more, maybe. 727 00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,400 But I suppose it's an addiction kind of thing. 728 00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:42,880 And where do you think it's going to stop? 729 00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:46,280 When he kicks the bucket, I guess. 730 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,160 Then hopefully one of his sons will carry on. 731 00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,640 He won't stop before he's six foot under. 732 00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:08,000 My dream is to carry on what my dad's doing. 733 00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:09,880 To carry on with the rhino breeding. 734 00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,240 Unfortunately, the irony, 735 00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:17,360 I wouldn't breed rhino because it's too expensive 736 00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:19,640 and it's very high risk. 737 00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:21,920 I mean, we've had death threats here at the house. 738 00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:25,760 If I see what he's gone through in the last 15 years, 739 00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:29,240 his financial position has gradually got worse and worse 740 00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:32,080 the more rhino he has acquired there. 741 00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:39,680 I've invested $50 million in this project with virtually no return. 742 00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:53,040 This project will come to an end unless it is making money. 743 00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,000 I can go on selling my assets, 744 00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,520 but it is not sustainable in the long run. 745 01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:02,640 I used to have six resorts. 746 01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,600 I used to have over 3,000 beds. 747 01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:11,880 All of the resorts have been... 748 01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,760 And this is the last one that will be sold on auction. 749 01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:18,840 RAPID AUCTION CHANT 750 01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:33,280 For 24 million. For the first time. 751 01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:36,640 For the second time at 24 million. 752 01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,320 Thank you, ma'am, it's yours. 753 01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:41,720 APPLAUSE 754 01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:52,080 I believe that I don't have any option 755 01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:55,960 but to take the government to court to lift the moratorium. 756 01:00:57,920 --> 01:00:59,400 If I don't, 757 01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:03,280 I will run out of money and my rhinos will be killed by poachers. 758 01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:18,880 Sure? 759 01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:22,240 We believe that the poachers would have shot an elephant today... 760 01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:25,760 ..and we hope to meet them on the road 761 01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:28,280 and explain to them that... 762 01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,280 ..this no longer happens in this area. 763 01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,920 There was a sting operation in the district south of us 764 01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,280 where a lot of armed poachers come from. 765 01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:49,000 What had transpired was a guy whipped out a knife, 766 01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:51,080 tried to stab the police officer. 767 01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:52,120 He was shot. 768 01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,880 He died shortly after that. 769 01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:00,720 Er, yeah, don't know. 770 01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:03,840 It was a bit strange because the next day 771 01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:05,960 I had to go and shoot an elephant. 772 01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:20,720 # Happy birthday to you 773 01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:25,480 # Happy birthday, dear Philip 774 01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:28,360 # Happy birthday to you 775 01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,400 # And many more. # 776 01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:31,520 Cheers. 777 01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,640 APPLAUSE 778 01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:44,160 You spilled it. What are you, some kind of wild animal? 779 01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:50,520 Mom, Dad, now watch. Philip's opening his gift. 780 01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:52,040 Oh, I remember what these are. 781 01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:57,680 Birthday cheers on your quest for the big five. 782 01:02:57,680 --> 01:02:59,160 Something Merlot. 783 01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:03,840 And some kind of chocolates. Is that what it is? Happy birthday. 784 01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:05,640 Thank you. 785 01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:16,200 Unfortunately, this is my birthday present, I guess. 786 01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:18,560 They've listed the lions as threatened 787 01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:22,440 and all lions as threatened and another species as endangered. 788 01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:24,440 So effectively, lion hunting is over. 789 01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:28,120 Now, when this all goes into effect, I don't know. 790 01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,320 We are just a few months out, so maybe we're OK. 791 01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,760 Maybe we're not. Maybe we have to go to a different country. 792 01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,800 Maybe the whole trip's ruined. I don't know. 793 01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,520 So I think the thing that makes me the maddest is this 794 01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:44,400 service director Dan Ash says that, and I quote, 795 01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:48,760 "It's a privilege, not a right, for us to bring back these trophies from other countries." 796 01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,680 You know, I don't think he was elected by anybody. 797 01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:55,400 I think he's an appointed bureaucrat and he has no right to tell me 798 01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:59,720 what my rights are and what a privilege of being US citizen is. 799 01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,640 I'm going to be the first hunter in there for the hunting season 800 01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:05,080 and we planned it that way. 801 01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,320 So I'm going as early as I can in this coming year, 802 01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:11,480 but that might not be early enough. 803 01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:14,600 Just once in a while 804 01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:16,160 an individual animal 805 01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:19,280 can capture the public imagination 806 01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:21,840 and change public attitudes. 807 01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,560 Worldwide outrage over the death of Cecil the lion. 808 01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:27,040 Killed at the hands of an American dentist. 809 01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:31,280 Cecil's death created a sort of public groundswell of opinion 810 01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:34,040 that's been translated into real action. 811 01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:35,680 You know what, I eat hamburgers. 812 01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:37,600 But that was not a hunt. That was a murder. 813 01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:40,280 This guy must have quite a collection of animal heads. 814 01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:42,800 Here he is posing next to a bear he shot. 815 01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:45,680 He killed, like, half of Noah's Ark. 816 01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:47,720 Killing a lion for sport? 817 01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:50,280 Not in the era of Instagram, Facebook, 818 01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,120 not to a generation brought up to relate to Simba. 819 01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:55,400 We'll always be together, right? 820 01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:57,680 No, we won't. 821 01:04:57,680 --> 01:04:59,840 I'll be murdered by a dentist from Minnesota. 822 01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:02,720 See that constellation? 823 01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:05,960 The one that looks like a white guy in his 50s with a fake smile? 824 01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:08,360 Walter fucking Palmer. 825 01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:11,320 You hunted Cecil the lion like a fucking cowardly bitch. 826 01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:14,240 Dentist Palmer, welcome to the court of public opinion. 827 01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,960 I'm really happy that social media is getting this story out there. 828 01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:19,960 Got to stop talking about it because I'm going to get really angry. 829 01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:22,320 What would happen if you were being hunted, motherfucker? 830 01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:24,800 We'll never forgive what you did! 831 01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:28,640 In the wake of public outrage over the killing of Cecil the lion, 832 01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:31,960 the three largest US airlines are instituting bans 833 01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,160 on carrying trophies as freight. 834 01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:37,200 Somebody is paying for this thing to function. 835 01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:41,760 Someone provides the clothing, the scopes, the outdoor gear, 836 01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:45,600 and it makes the big corporate players in this 837 01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:47,200 think very carefully 838 01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:52,080 about how closely they wish to be associated with certain practices. 839 01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:56,000 And I think that will change and it will change fast 840 01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:59,680 and people will say, "Don't want to be part of this." 841 01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:00,880 Save our lions! 842 01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:02,680 Ban canned hunting! 843 01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:04,320 Save our lions! 844 01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:06,080 Ban canned hunting! 845 01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:07,360 Save our lions! 846 01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:08,560 Ban canned hunting! 847 01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:11,000 Save our lions! 848 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:12,560 We will shame these people. 849 01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:14,920 We will ostracise these people. 850 01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:18,120 We will put such pressure on our governments that they've got nowhere to go 851 01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:19,760 and it isn't just lions. 852 01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:23,800 A certain gentleman that breeds 1,200 white rhinos in South Africa 853 01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:27,680 and spends 5.2 million rand a year feeding them and looking after them 854 01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:30,280 says he can no longer afford to pay for all of that. 855 01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:33,520 He'll have to cull those animals unless he can sell the rhino horn. 856 01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:36,160 And we've got to say enough is enough. 857 01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:38,000 We won't allow that to happen. 858 01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:40,280 We won't allow South Africa to abuse its position... 859 01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:47,280 Welcome. I'm here tonight to moderate a debate 860 01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:51,240 between two very prominent conservationists. 861 01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:56,200 Will Travers of the Born Free Foundation and Mr John Hume. 862 01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:00,960 I'm very keen to hear what he's going to say. 863 01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:05,240 He's far more experienced than I am in wooing the public. 864 01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:07,480 Don't forget that. That's what he does. 865 01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:08,760 He woos the public. 866 01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:11,760 That's how they collect money and that's why they are so good at it. 867 01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:13,000 APPLAUSE 868 01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:18,840 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 869 01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:23,920 I'm a retired property developer and now custodian of 1,403 rhinos. 870 01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:32,400 If I can sell the horns my 1,400 will become 2,000, 3,000 and 10,000. 871 01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:37,960 I cannot see what is wrong with that 872 01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:41,120 when my rhinos are happy alive. 873 01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:44,280 Come and see them, where they are. 874 01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:49,080 I have the recipe but it takes a lot of money. 875 01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:51,040 I have a way to raise the money 876 01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:54,200 without going begging all over the world. 877 01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:57,040 All I need is for it to be legal. 878 01:07:57,040 --> 01:08:00,560 I don't think there's any legitimate case for you having these animals 879 01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:02,880 in large numbers in private areas of owned land 880 01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:05,640 where you can harvest them, where you can profit from them, 881 01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:07,880 where you can put them into the international market 882 01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:10,120 where we can lead to more destruction. 883 01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:11,680 APPLAUSE 884 01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:14,400 Excuse me, sir, I don't think you understand Africa. 885 01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:17,920 You simply don't understand Africa. 886 01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:22,000 How many consumers could you supply from your rhinos? 887 01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:26,960 I trim my horns every two years so I can produce with my current rhinos 888 01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,320 one tonne of horn a year. 889 01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:32,160 What about the rest of the population? They must do the same. 890 01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,760 That's why I want to give them to the communities. 891 01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:36,240 I want to teach the communities. 892 01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:40,880 What about Sumatran rhino? Indian rhino? Once you flood your market... 893 01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,240 So you want me to give up and let my rhino all die? 894 01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:45,840 It's all about your rhino. What about the global rhino? 895 01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:48,800 Let the global rhino do the same thing. 896 01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:50,880 You have to speak for all rhino, not just yours. 897 01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:52,240 APPLAUSE 898 01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:56,440 The if it pays, it stays principal. 899 01:08:56,440 --> 01:08:58,960 The commodification of wildlife. 900 01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:01,040 Elephants will stay if we can sell their ivory. 901 01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:04,720 Lions will stay if the wealthy elite can shoot them for fun. 902 01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:08,640 And rhino will stay, albeit on ranches very similar to Mr Hume's, 903 01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:13,000 if their horns can be sold to remote, distant, deluded buyers. 904 01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,320 What a vision of nature that will be. 905 01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:19,120 Contained, confined, commercialised, and counterfeit. 906 01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:26,400 South Africa is yet to decide on a push to end a global ban on buying and selling rhino horn. 907 01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,280 The move could open up a $2 billion market 908 01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:32,320 and also determine the fate of the critically endangered species. 909 01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:35,920 Oh, my gosh! 910 01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:43,240 I got this one. You got this one. You're coming back? You bet. 911 01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,480 CHANTING, THUMPING OF DRUMS, CAR HORNS BLARE 912 01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:54,840 They like to talk about the numbers, 913 01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:56,520 they like to talk about conservation. 914 01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:58,640 They're just green washing, basically, 915 01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:00,560 the fact that they enjoy killing. 916 01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:03,560 And that's basically psychopathic behaviour. 917 01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:05,520 We're seeing a lot of progress for animals. 918 01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:06,800 The change is coming. 919 01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:09,640 We're going to put an end to this. 920 01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,200 I'm actually a conservation hunter. 921 01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:19,200 We are very conscientious about what we do hunt 922 01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:20,920 and we don't hunt any endangered species. 923 01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:23,920 So, I'm against all hunting. Just all hunting no matter what? 924 01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:26,960 No matter what. No matter the results or...? 925 01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:29,240 From the conservationists' point of view, 926 01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:32,080 the money that comes in from hunting in those areas where those 927 01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:35,160 conservancies are, is actually what's keeping them there. 928 01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,480 Do you honestly think your money goes anywhere except 929 01:13:37,480 --> 01:13:40,720 into someone's back pocket where you are breeding corruption? 930 01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:43,000 We're going to go to the school that we paid for. 931 01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,400 We're going to go to the clinic... So, go build a school! 932 01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,560 If you want to build a school, I'll shake your hand, 933 01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:50,040 I'll come build it with you. I'm just saying... No problem. 934 01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:52,160 Why do you have to shoot an animal to go build a school? 935 01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:54,760 I'm just saying that's part of our industry. It's not the same. 936 01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:55,960 Murder is murder. 937 01:13:55,960 --> 01:13:57,800 It's not murder if it's an animal. 938 01:13:57,800 --> 01:13:59,280 Yes, it is. 939 01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:01,360 Did you murder a chicken that you had for lunch? 940 01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:03,200 I don't eat meat, sweetheart. 941 01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:05,920 I'm vegan. OK. I don't eat meat. OK. 942 01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:09,480 Cos I have regard for all species and all living, breathing things. 943 01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:12,480 Shame on you! 944 01:14:12,480 --> 01:14:13,840 Cowards! 945 01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:22,600 It's human nature to be empathetic with the individual, 946 01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:24,880 and so the animal rights organisations, 947 01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:28,040 that's their thinking, the individual. 948 01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:30,560 As if that's somehow going to protect the entire area, 949 01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:33,400 it's going to protect the whole ecosystem, and it's not. 950 01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:36,760 So they think in terms of Bambi or Simba or Fifi. 951 01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:39,200 Cos we can see Fifi, we know Fifi and we send out photographs 952 01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:41,880 of Fifis to our donors. 953 01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:44,360 Then that's great, OK. 954 01:14:44,360 --> 01:14:47,280 But Fifi might be in the right middle place, 955 01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:49,800 she's right in the most protected area and you're ignoring 956 01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:51,720 everywhere else around the periphery. 957 01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:55,040 And all the people are cutting away and they're filling forests, 958 01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:57,520 they're clearing land and they're bringing their livestock 959 01:14:57,520 --> 01:14:59,400 right next to Fifi. 960 01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:00,720 And it all goes. 961 01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:05,880 They're ignoring the fact that local people 962 01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:08,560 are being killed by lions, being trampled by elephants, 963 01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:10,880 they're losing their crops, 964 01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:12,960 that they do not share their value system. 965 01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:17,360 If you cannot empathise with the local people, 966 01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:20,040 then you're not going to be at all successful in protecting them in 967 01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:21,280 the long-term. 968 01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:27,560 On the other hand, you have the hunters who are convinced that where 969 01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:30,920 they operate, they're the last bastions of support to protect 970 01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:33,440 these areas, but to an animal welfare organisation, 971 01:15:33,440 --> 01:15:35,480 no, no animal must die. 972 01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:42,680 The reality of hunting is that, yes, there are a few places where hunting 973 01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:47,040 does make a difference, but in many areas the economics don't add up. 974 01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:48,720 They're not generating enough money. 975 01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:52,400 The land is being lost, especially in the most corrupt countries. 976 01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:55,120 We've seen it happen over and over in many parts of Africa, 977 01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,400 where they go out and say, "Everything's fine." 978 01:15:57,400 --> 01:15:58,840 No, it's not fine. 979 01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:00,040 Things are declining. 980 01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:14,520 What we do is run the camp and kind of manage the on ground management 981 01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:18,080 of the anti-poaching in the area, and we get a daily rate 982 01:16:18,080 --> 01:16:20,880 when foreign hunters come in to hunt here, which... 983 01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:25,800 ..really subsidises the money that I have to run my anti-poaching. 984 01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:31,480 You can imagine with all that dust and dirt and rain... 985 01:16:33,320 --> 01:16:35,160 ..our firearms take a bit of a hammering. 986 01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,040 That's why we like these AK action. 987 01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:38,840 Good old AK, built in Israel. 988 01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:41,120 Can't really go wrong with it. No, no. 989 01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:48,240 We're fighting to save this... 990 01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:51,280 ..for the community... 991 01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:56,360 ..while people kill it. 992 01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:02,440 It really is pretty weird. 993 01:17:02,440 --> 01:17:05,720 We're fighting to save something so that somebody else can kill it. 994 01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:10,120 It just comes back to control... 995 01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:14,720 ..ethic, morals, sustainability. 996 01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:17,480 You can assimilate the two, 997 01:17:17,480 --> 01:17:19,880 the poachers and the commercial hunters, 998 01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:21,880 but the difference is, the poachers... 999 01:17:24,120 --> 01:17:26,320 ..they shoot anything for their teeth. 1000 01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:27,920 Literally anything. 1001 01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:31,360 And they will shoot every last one that there is 1002 01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:36,160 because there's a commercial driven desire for these teeth. 1003 01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:39,800 On the hunting side, if done correctly... 1004 01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:43,920 ..where there is a very carefully measured off-take... 1005 01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:46,880 ..I can live with that. 1006 01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,360 Killing every last animal, no, can't live with that. 1007 01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:52,200 Won't do that. 1008 01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:53,400 That's just wrong. 1009 01:17:57,320 --> 01:17:59,120 You loaded up there? No. 1010 01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:01,560 You got a loader? You never know what we can bump here. 1011 01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,920 I'm not really after a buffalo. OK. 1012 01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:10,160 You know what we're going to need? Bait. Yeah. 1013 01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:13,080 We've got three more places to bait, but it's your call. 1014 01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:14,600 You don't need to feel pressured. 1015 01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:16,520 How much am I paying for the hippo for bait? 1016 01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:18,400 4,750. 1017 01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:20,400 And how much for the buffalo? 55. OK. 1018 01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:32,680 OK. When you're ready, take it. 1019 01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:34,640 GUNSHOT 1020 01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:42,480 Hey! 1021 01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:56,160 This is one of now probably 17 baits we've put up so far for Philip. 1022 01:18:56,160 --> 01:18:58,440 We've used hippo, zebra, impala... 1023 01:18:59,440 --> 01:19:02,360 ..and our biggest problem is they're rotting really quick. 1024 01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:05,160 You know, they're only lasting three days, so... 1025 01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:08,480 hopefully the cats find us the next two days while they're still fresh 1026 01:19:08,480 --> 01:19:09,720 and give us a bit of luck. 1027 01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:17,920 You know, the Bible says, "He gave man dominion over all the animals," 1028 01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:20,480 and that dominion comes with a responsibility, 1029 01:19:20,480 --> 01:19:23,320 but it also means it's the right to use. 1030 01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:25,960 And so I think that is a big part of it, and it's a big part of 1031 01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:27,360 appreciating God's creation. 1032 01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:29,480 And some people think, "Well, how can you go out 1033 01:19:29,480 --> 01:19:31,560 "and shoot God's creation?" 1034 01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:34,920 That's a totally false statement, a false point of view. 1035 01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:36,800 God said, "We have dominion over the animals" - 1036 01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:39,240 that means we can do what we choose with them. 1037 01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:41,800 It's a very powerful statement that's in the Bible. 1038 01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:42,880 GUNSHOT 1039 01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:45,720 They might go that way. 1040 01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:48,680 Give me the rounds, anyway. GUNSHOT 1041 01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:50,320 THEY LAUGH 1042 01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:51,760 GUNSHOT 1043 01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:54,080 I think it does make it more special for me, as a believer, 1044 01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:56,400 to go out there and pursue these animals and know that God 1045 01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:59,360 placed them, and when I put my hand on that lion, I can promise you... 1046 01:20:01,240 --> 01:20:03,200 ..at that moment, as with all of my life, 1047 01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:06,000 anybody that believes in evolution is a complete fool. 1048 01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:09,560 I just don't understand how people can't understand 1049 01:20:09,560 --> 01:20:11,320 that God raised that animal into existence. 1050 01:20:11,320 --> 01:20:13,200 FLIES BUZZ 1051 01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:32,760 FLIES BUZZ 1052 01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:48,560 Oh, my. 1053 01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:17,720 A thought came to mind as I was coming here 1054 01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:21,240 and beginning to feel the emotion and the anticipation 1055 01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:22,440 of this big hunt. 1056 01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:26,760 I mean, I've been a... 1057 01:21:26,760 --> 01:21:28,880 I've been a hunter my whole life. 1058 01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:31,160 They say I fell out of the hunting vehicle when I was two 1059 01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:33,920 or three years old and landed on my head, maybe that's what's wrong 1060 01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:35,680 with me, sometimes. 1061 01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:39,040 And, you know, I lost my dad a few years ago, and he was a hunter. 1062 01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:44,360 At the time, I was a little angry with him, the way he would treat me, 1063 01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:48,520 but he would do funny things to me to make me learn to hunt. 1064 01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:51,480 We'd be in a pick-up, and whether it was a rabbit or a deer, 1065 01:21:51,480 --> 01:21:53,360 summer or winter, 1066 01:21:53,360 --> 01:21:56,200 we'd be driving along and he would see some game and all he would do is 1067 01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:59,200 turn the engine off and sit there and not say a word. 1068 01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:01,880 And I would have to find the animal and get out of the vehicle 1069 01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:03,080 and go take a shot. 1070 01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:09,200 But, no, he challenged me. My dad challenged me in many ways. 1071 01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:10,480 That was just one way. 1072 01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:18,280 And I think that he would be really tickled to be able 1073 01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:20,680 to tell the people back home at the coffee shop - 1074 01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:23,840 and when I say coffee shop, I mean the Dairy Queen - 1075 01:22:23,840 --> 01:22:26,040 that his son is out hunting a lion. 1076 01:22:26,040 --> 01:22:29,320 I think if he was around, he'd have really got a big kick out of that. 1077 01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:40,280 HE WHISPERS: It would be better if it was a little bit up, but it's... 1078 01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:41,880 Yeah. But it'll work. 1079 01:22:41,880 --> 01:22:44,000 But if you could make it up a little bit. 1080 01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:46,360 Down just a bit. Right there. 1081 01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:01,520 I really feel as if they know that they're in danger. 1082 01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:10,480 They know that they're not equipped to avoid extinction. 1083 01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:20,360 It is humans that have messed up their lives. 1084 01:23:24,920 --> 01:23:26,200 We are to blame. 1085 01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:38,600 And it makes me understand that I cannot give up. 1086 01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:40,120 THUNDER RUMBLES 1087 01:23:54,440 --> 01:23:58,680 Why should we save any species from extinction? 1088 01:24:02,200 --> 01:24:04,800 It's almost like, why should we breathe? 1089 01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:08,600 It's because it's us! 1090 01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:12,240 Surely we want our world to survive? 1091 01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:17,360 We want our world to be a better place. 1092 01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:30,320 GUNSHOT, BIRDS SQUAWK 1093 01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:47,800 Oh, my... 1094 01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:50,400 Ready? 1095 01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:58,440 Fantastic, bud. An excellent, excellent shot. 1096 01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:04,440 HE SIGHS, FLIES BUZZ 1097 01:25:04,440 --> 01:25:05,720 Oh, my gosh. 1098 01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:41,600 Maybe. 1099 01:25:52,480 --> 01:25:54,400 Just lay down in the sticks, didn't he? 1100 01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:01,000 I think that was a good idea. 1101 01:26:29,480 --> 01:26:33,360 You don't want those to get a hold of you, I promise you that. 1102 01:26:33,360 --> 01:26:34,520 Those teeth are just... 1103 01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:37,680 ..absolutely magnificent. 1104 01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:43,920 What a mane. Look at that red and the black. 1105 01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:48,120 The black on his ears. 1106 01:26:49,520 --> 01:26:50,720 Green eyes. 1107 01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:56,280 And he is an old, old male. 1108 01:26:56,280 --> 01:26:57,600 Really a one-of-a-kind. 1109 01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:03,360 I made the decision several months ago that I was coming to hunt lion, 1110 01:27:03,360 --> 01:27:05,720 and this is my trophy and there's not any bureaucrat 1111 01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:07,760 that can take it away from me. 1112 01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:17,720 OK, Martin, can we set him up to take some pictures? OK.