The Last English Poachers

Channel 4 Unreported World - The Black Mambas: Saving the Rhino (2015)
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Genre: Documentary

In South Africa, reporter Evan Williams and director Laura Warner meet the Black Mambas: the world's first all-female anti-poaching unit, who are battling to save the rhino from extinction. The illicit trade in rhino horn for the Asian market has skyrocketed. It has become one of the most valuable commodities in the world, worth as much as gold, diamonds and cocaine. In 2014, 1215 rhino were killed in South Africa: a record high, and the numbers are still increasing. The Unreported World team visits a high-security, secret reserve engaging the local black community in wildlife conservation. The Black Mambas are starting to beat the poachers, but it's hard and dangerous work as the poachers are determined to continue their lucrative hunting. The survival of Africa's last wild rhinos could depend on new initiatives like the Mambas convincing communities that keeping wildlife is more valuable than the incentives offered by international criminal networks.

The tiger known as Broken Tail was born in Ranthambhore National Park in northern India, a vast, natural reserve for a wide variety of Indian wildlife, but especially famous for its Bengal tigers. Historically revered in Indian tradition, tigers in the area were once protected by maharajahs, and then by government sanctuaries and conservation projects. But poachers have proven to be nearly unstoppable over the years, and tigers have struggled to survive, even with the protection of the park. At one point, there were as few as 26 tigers left in the reserve, and today, the fate of each and every tiger is important to the species as a whole. Conservation efforts have been intensified in the face of the crisis, and the struggle continues.Broken Tail: A Tiger’s Last Journey is the story of the life and death of a tiger destined for greatness, who may still lead the way to a better future for those of his kind. This film premiered February 20, 2011.

With wildlife crime now thought to be second only to drugs in terms of profit, Rageh Omaar goes on the trail of the ivory poachers, smugglers and organised crime syndicates to investigate the plight of Africa's elephants.

BBC Natural World - Echo: An Unforgettable Elephant (2010)
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Genre: Documentary

A celebration of the life and legacy of Echo, the world's most famous elephant, who was born in 1945 and died in 2009, and who Natural World followed for the last 20 years of her life. The timing of Echo's death could not be worse. The wise old matriarch had guided her family for half a century, but the cruellest drought in living memory devastated her home under the shadow of Kilimanjaro. Will her 38-strong band of relatives and descendants overcome the loss of their leader, hunger and poachers to survive?