so you don’t have anything to show us
yet I’m on assignment with investigative
journalist and war correspondent Aidan
Hartley today were in Dar es Salaam
hosing his ivory buyers please hurry up
thank you try to put a little bit of
pressure on it otherwise he might think
that it’s strange because he’s kept
giving us the runaround and delays and
we’ll send to tolerate that
to recap is part of a National
Geographic special digging into the
ivory trade we split into two teams our
China team revealed that a lot of ivory
is for sale there there are 137
government designated shops selling it
some of its legal but we suspect that a
lot of it is illegal that’s what we’re
here to investigate what we know is the
quantity of ivory that is flooding the
market in China itself couldn’t possibly
be supplied by any legal sales from
recent years I have been told that there
are ivory traders who are selling tusks
almost openly in their assalaam despite
the fact that it’s extremely illegal
here I wanted to test those reports to
find out whether they were true
it is very important for our filming to
remain secret this is comparable with
the narcotics trade so we have to wear
secret cameras perfect yes pretty girl
and I should stress that firearms are
used in this poaching crisis and these
gangs are ruthless criminals could be
very dangerous for us if I wasn’t
already nervous enough
all right so we’ll uh we’ll give you a
call we may be here an hour on the way
to meet the seller Aiden asks me if I
have a thick jacket I say no why he
tells me a thicker jacket will provide
extra protection in the event of a knife
fight this is not reassuring advice so
say my friend can you get a thousand
feelings so they feel yes
1,000 bucks yeah that looks for wonder
that’s for wining me when
in a week Congrats bro okay let’s start
with this on that yeah so sample it
Nikki for five or six pieces okay let’s
go and have a look at those
to get to his ivory stash the seller
insists that we ride with him for the
next hour we crisscross the slums of DAR
maybe it’s just a disorient us so where
are we going now now dumping me out or
maybe he’s just trying to feel us out
either way we’re totally in his control
all right Casey
see ya sounds how to look at the rest of
them how many of you got here yeah
that’s it
so this one if you give me a bad day I
cook for you what we secretly filmed
with that ivory trader gave us
incredible evidence of just how rampant
the illegal ivory trade is in Tanzania I
was very struck as we looked at these
things lying on his bed that they
represented four dead elephant you could
still see the dried blood on them he
said that it was 20 kilograms of ivory
and he wanted the cash then and there
$8,000 is what he wanted on the open
market in China that could fetch up to
$40,000 incredible next week we go
undercover into one of China’s ivory
shops I’m Brian
where Brian Kristi will examine the
blurry line that defines legal versus
healing or ivory is illegal everybody
take one lock it up once again yeah
yet I’m on assignment with investigative
journalist and war correspondent Aidan
Hartley today were in Dar es Salaam
hosing his ivory buyers please hurry up
thank you try to put a little bit of
pressure on it otherwise he might think
that it’s strange because he’s kept
giving us the runaround and delays and
we’ll send to tolerate that
to recap is part of a National
Geographic special digging into the
ivory trade we split into two teams our
China team revealed that a lot of ivory
is for sale there there are 137
government designated shops selling it
some of its legal but we suspect that a
lot of it is illegal that’s what we’re
here to investigate what we know is the
quantity of ivory that is flooding the
market in China itself couldn’t possibly
be supplied by any legal sales from
recent years I have been told that there
are ivory traders who are selling tusks
almost openly in their assalaam despite
the fact that it’s extremely illegal
here I wanted to test those reports to
find out whether they were true
it is very important for our filming to
remain secret this is comparable with
the narcotics trade so we have to wear
secret cameras perfect yes pretty girl
and I should stress that firearms are
used in this poaching crisis and these
gangs are ruthless criminals could be
very dangerous for us if I wasn’t
already nervous enough
all right so we’ll uh we’ll give you a
call we may be here an hour on the way
to meet the seller Aiden asks me if I
have a thick jacket I say no why he
tells me a thicker jacket will provide
extra protection in the event of a knife
fight this is not reassuring advice so
say my friend can you get a thousand
feelings so they feel yes
1,000 bucks yeah that looks for wonder
that’s for wining me when
in a week Congrats bro okay let’s start
with this on that yeah so sample it
Nikki for five or six pieces okay let’s
go and have a look at those
to get to his ivory stash the seller
insists that we ride with him for the
next hour we crisscross the slums of DAR
maybe it’s just a disorient us so where
are we going now now dumping me out or
maybe he’s just trying to feel us out
either way we’re totally in his control
all right Casey
see ya sounds how to look at the rest of
them how many of you got here yeah
that’s it
so this one if you give me a bad day I
cook for you what we secretly filmed
with that ivory trader gave us
incredible evidence of just how rampant
the illegal ivory trade is in Tanzania I
was very struck as we looked at these
things lying on his bed that they
represented four dead elephant you could
still see the dried blood on them he
said that it was 20 kilograms of ivory
and he wanted the cash then and there
$8,000 is what he wanted on the open
market in China that could fetch up to
$40,000 incredible next week we go
undercover into one of China’s ivory
shops I’m Brian
where Brian Kristi will examine the
blurry line that defines legal versus
healing or ivory is illegal everybody
take one lock it up once again yeah
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