seeing these giraffes from the air was
really exciting seeing them anywhere is
exciting because there’s so few of them
left but this was my first shot and
there’s a giraffe standing in this small
clearing by a small tree and then the
next thing I know there’s three the next
morning I was informed that about 12
hours after we had seen these giraffes
there was a range of patrol in the area
that heard ten gunshots
it was too late for them to follow the
shots to find out where they were they
waited till the next morning they went
in the direction of the shots and lo and
behold they found three dead giraffe in
the area that we had been okay here’s
one carcass
Oh
that was horrible it was horrible for
them it was horrible for me and the team
and the crushing realization that it’s
it’s most likely it was these guys these
ones that we’d seen and now there’s
three less now there’s 37 it was really
awful I was working in a very remote
iconic national park called Garamba
National Park Garamba is a park that is
run by dicey cm the Congolese government
in association with African parks an
organization that’s responsible for the
management of the park and the wildlife
it’s a very challenging environment on
the Congolese in Sudan border the first
thing you have to do is secure the
perimeter this is the front lines of the
poaching crisis with a terrorist network
and highly militarized forces
surrounding us in every direction this
is a tough environment how high this
grass is patrolling these grounds you’re
always at risk of an ambush
when you approach these animals through
the tall grass even though you can’t see
them yet you know you’re getting close
to the carcasses because of the sound of
the flies just starts grow and grow and
grow
but an app is solute waste
promesa purusa catastrophic was Kelly’s
s-phase fart new la parque nacional de
la garen bond arrest Selma que decir
offense occurred easily ha ha scale on a
dare me ADA milken’s una VN Cara Casa
del Desiro from a coke orgy 2nd ed Emily
says you get a perdre rosatom oh no
fella totally Tijuana the jacket ray
sadly in my career I’ve seen poached
elephants before at multiple stages of
decay but I’d never seen a giraffe who
killed a giraffe you know it was awful
because of their size and their
exquisite form they take a particularly
grotesque appearance when they’re lying
down contorted on the ground this is a
bull can you walk over to that caucus
it’s a lot smaller caucus don’t see what
that is it might be a female
this is a tragedy of epic proportions
for this species Kordofan giraffe and
unique subspecies these are the last
ones left in the entire region sad
fought this is a female
every single female that we lose is a
breeding female that can produce more on
further examination there’s also some
things you notice immediately which is
they didn’t take any of the meat all
that they did take is the tail
we can now clearly see what what
happened I think they were probably all
shot at the same time the first one in
the brain the other one dropped right
next to the first one and this one was
shot multiple times as was running away
you can see some shots next to the spine
on the left and some shots from behind
under the tail this giraffe caucus is
only 36 hours old
what happened here was the poachers you
see we somebody cut this open with a not
so the poachers cut this open to give
access to the vultures so that the
vultures can finish this carcass within
two days and we can’t take the carcass
from the vultures the longer the
vultures stay around the longer we have
to detect it so this one was was the one
that was collared this was a giraffe
that had a satellite collar that was
crushing for the African parks and garam
the team that was with us because this
is critical data that they’ve now lost
just our normal anti poaching strategy
is obviously not working this giraffe
movers College will be collars on
all of our giraffe groups to know where
these groups are at all times so that we
can follow them we can shatter them and
we can protect them and restore failing
we’ve got five groups of poachers coming
here
unidentified helicopters we’ve got guys
coming from the north the LRA who are
only after elephant they need to fund
their war but then we’ve got the North
Sudanese the Janjaweed the South
Sudanese has got a market for bush meat
they’ve got a bunch of refugee camps the
protein starved and they would take the
meat the Congolese people don’t touch
them if they believe they get leprosy
from from eating giraffe meat they only
cut the tail and they will use that tail
as a dowry to the bride’s father if they
want to ask for the for the hand of a
bride so having the tails cut only
probably indicates a piece with
companies pouches just a very little tip
of it the long black hairs that are used
as a flyswatter it’s worth thousands of
US dollars
the sad part about the history of
Garamba is that we’ve lost the northern
white rhino and we’re now about to lose
the lost giraffe if we don’t get our act
together and stop this poaching here is
a purely military task we’re not after
groups of two to three guys ducking in
by a nice taking Rhino getting out again
we’re after heavily militarized heavily
armed groups with specific directive
come in off take resources get up I
think as a conservationist and a
somebody that’s dedicated his life to do
conservation and whatever form this is
deciding this is ripping out your your
soul
every one of these we find is just one
more incentive one more push just to go
a little bit harder bit further and his
nemesis user logs a met Rajesh Kapoor
his Kazakh members Oh see it is a real
idea to separate a case as well as any
problem the jirafa
a commute in Tuzla garden a para
prevenir SMSF Amala Magenta’s Paki of a
thermal a security de la liturgie Bravo
nachos in parque nacional telegram
gentle it moved me to tears when I was
out there it’s brought me to tears again
sitting here it’s really forcing me to
reflect on this experience I’ll never
forget it I’ll never stop being angry
I’ll never stop feeling
the duty to continue but I also feel
tremendously obligated to bring it back
and try and utilize
the resources of the awareness that only
National Geographic can provide you have
to turn tragedy into a galvanizing force
we have to turn tragedy into activism
alert the world to the tragedy what
happened that day and find a new way to
let it live on as a source of energy and
momentum for all of us
they’re Kenya police reservists they’re
armed with automatic rifles they’re
trained to a very high standard
we’ve set up the dog station highly
trained attack stroke tracker stroke
patrol dog unit
really exciting seeing them anywhere is
exciting because there’s so few of them
left but this was my first shot and
there’s a giraffe standing in this small
clearing by a small tree and then the
next thing I know there’s three the next
morning I was informed that about 12
hours after we had seen these giraffes
there was a range of patrol in the area
that heard ten gunshots
it was too late for them to follow the
shots to find out where they were they
waited till the next morning they went
in the direction of the shots and lo and
behold they found three dead giraffe in
the area that we had been okay here’s
one carcass
Oh
that was horrible it was horrible for
them it was horrible for me and the team
and the crushing realization that it’s
it’s most likely it was these guys these
ones that we’d seen and now there’s
three less now there’s 37 it was really
awful I was working in a very remote
iconic national park called Garamba
National Park Garamba is a park that is
run by dicey cm the Congolese government
in association with African parks an
organization that’s responsible for the
management of the park and the wildlife
it’s a very challenging environment on
the Congolese in Sudan border the first
thing you have to do is secure the
perimeter this is the front lines of the
poaching crisis with a terrorist network
and highly militarized forces
surrounding us in every direction this
is a tough environment how high this
grass is patrolling these grounds you’re
always at risk of an ambush
when you approach these animals through
the tall grass even though you can’t see
them yet you know you’re getting close
to the carcasses because of the sound of
the flies just starts grow and grow and
grow
but an app is solute waste
promesa purusa catastrophic was Kelly’s
s-phase fart new la parque nacional de
la garen bond arrest Selma que decir
offense occurred easily ha ha scale on a
dare me ADA milken’s una VN Cara Casa
del Desiro from a coke orgy 2nd ed Emily
says you get a perdre rosatom oh no
fella totally Tijuana the jacket ray
sadly in my career I’ve seen poached
elephants before at multiple stages of
decay but I’d never seen a giraffe who
killed a giraffe you know it was awful
because of their size and their
exquisite form they take a particularly
grotesque appearance when they’re lying
down contorted on the ground this is a
bull can you walk over to that caucus
it’s a lot smaller caucus don’t see what
that is it might be a female
this is a tragedy of epic proportions
for this species Kordofan giraffe and
unique subspecies these are the last
ones left in the entire region sad
fought this is a female
every single female that we lose is a
breeding female that can produce more on
further examination there’s also some
things you notice immediately which is
they didn’t take any of the meat all
that they did take is the tail
we can now clearly see what what
happened I think they were probably all
shot at the same time the first one in
the brain the other one dropped right
next to the first one and this one was
shot multiple times as was running away
you can see some shots next to the spine
on the left and some shots from behind
under the tail this giraffe caucus is
only 36 hours old
what happened here was the poachers you
see we somebody cut this open with a not
so the poachers cut this open to give
access to the vultures so that the
vultures can finish this carcass within
two days and we can’t take the carcass
from the vultures the longer the
vultures stay around the longer we have
to detect it so this one was was the one
that was collared this was a giraffe
that had a satellite collar that was
crushing for the African parks and garam
the team that was with us because this
is critical data that they’ve now lost
just our normal anti poaching strategy
is obviously not working this giraffe
movers College will be collars on
all of our giraffe groups to know where
these groups are at all times so that we
can follow them we can shatter them and
we can protect them and restore failing
we’ve got five groups of poachers coming
here
unidentified helicopters we’ve got guys
coming from the north the LRA who are
only after elephant they need to fund
their war but then we’ve got the North
Sudanese the Janjaweed the South
Sudanese has got a market for bush meat
they’ve got a bunch of refugee camps the
protein starved and they would take the
meat the Congolese people don’t touch
them if they believe they get leprosy
from from eating giraffe meat they only
cut the tail and they will use that tail
as a dowry to the bride’s father if they
want to ask for the for the hand of a
bride so having the tails cut only
probably indicates a piece with
companies pouches just a very little tip
of it the long black hairs that are used
as a flyswatter it’s worth thousands of
US dollars
the sad part about the history of
Garamba is that we’ve lost the northern
white rhino and we’re now about to lose
the lost giraffe if we don’t get our act
together and stop this poaching here is
a purely military task we’re not after
groups of two to three guys ducking in
by a nice taking Rhino getting out again
we’re after heavily militarized heavily
armed groups with specific directive
come in off take resources get up I
think as a conservationist and a
somebody that’s dedicated his life to do
conservation and whatever form this is
deciding this is ripping out your your
soul
every one of these we find is just one
more incentive one more push just to go
a little bit harder bit further and his
nemesis user logs a met Rajesh Kapoor
his Kazakh members Oh see it is a real
idea to separate a case as well as any
problem the jirafa
a commute in Tuzla garden a para
prevenir SMSF Amala Magenta’s Paki of a
thermal a security de la liturgie Bravo
nachos in parque nacional telegram
gentle it moved me to tears when I was
out there it’s brought me to tears again
sitting here it’s really forcing me to
reflect on this experience I’ll never
forget it I’ll never stop being angry
I’ll never stop feeling
the duty to continue but I also feel
tremendously obligated to bring it back
and try and utilize
the resources of the awareness that only
National Geographic can provide you have
to turn tragedy into a galvanizing force
we have to turn tragedy into activism
alert the world to the tragedy what
happened that day and find a new way to
let it live on as a source of energy and
momentum for all of us
they’re Kenya police reservists they’re
armed with automatic rifles they’re
trained to a very high standard
we’ve set up the dog station highly
trained attack stroke tracker stroke
patrol dog unit
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