Groups across africa taking up the fight against poaching. This illegal trade has threatened the very existence of animals like these. At the endangered species enclosure at ol pejeta, will and i have been brought to meet mother and daughter, najin and fatu, the last surviving two northern white rhinos on earth. And here, its very soft, on their ears. Here. Whos this . This is najin. Hello, najin hello, sweetheart. Good girl. 0k, there you go. And then at the back here, its rough, you can touch at the back here. Oh, yeah at least you are able to lay your hands on what is the last of a being on the planet. It is sad and i hope it doesnt happen again to another species. And why are they so rare, james . Um, its basically poaching, which has just been driven by human greed and greed in different forms greed for power, greed for their medicinal aspects. Someone who has been made to believe, traditionally, that if they drink a rhino horn, its a cure for cancer. They can pay any amount to ge
Impossible route in and impossible route out. Ol pejeta conservancys canine unit are just one of the many groups across africa taking up the fight against poaching. This illegal trade has threatened the very existence of animals like these. At the endangered species enclosure at ol pejeta, will and i have been brought to meet mother and daughter, najin and fatu, the last surviving two northern white rhinos on earth. And here, its very soft, on their ears. Here. Whos this . This is najin. Hello, najin hello, sweetheart. Good girl. 0k, there you go. And then at the back here, its rough, you can touch at the back here. Oh, yeah at least you are able to lay your hands on what is the last of a being on the planet. It is sad and i hope it doesnt happen again to another species. And why are they so rare, james . Um, its basically poaching, which has just been driven by human greed and greed in different forms greed for power, greed for their medicinal aspects. Someone who has been made to bel
Hello, sweetheart. Good girl. 0k, there you go. And then at the back here, its rough, you can touch at the back here. Oh, yeah at least you are able to lay your hands on what is the last of a being on the planet. It is sad and i hope it doesnt happen again to another species. And why are they so rare, james . Um, its basically poaching, which has just been driven by human greed and greed in different forms greed for power, greed for their medicinal aspects. Someone who has been made to believe, traditionally, that if they drink a rhino horn, its a cure for cancer. They can pay any amount to get a small piece of rhino horn. But thats not true on the black market, a kilo of rhino horn is now selling for something more than us 60,000. You can imagine a rhino, that is a lot of money and its a lot of business and thats why still poaching becomes a serious problem. I kind of want to show you a footprint of a rhino. Right here, we have one. Its humbling to meet najin and fatu, but frustrating
hey, honey? before i left 0l pejeta for the maasai mara, james and will wanted to introduce me to another type of rhino. meet baraka, the blind rhino. this is baraka. oh, i can hear him! in the local language, baraka means blessed. blessed. yes. 0h, he sounds sweet. is he eating his little leaves? black rhinos are nervous in temperament, which can make them really aggressive and hard to get close to on safari. but this one is an exception to the rule and happily lets visitors feed him. meet baraka the blind . he lost his right eye to a fight with another rhino. did he lose that first, the right eye? yeah, his right eye first. same as me, yeah. and then the left eye got a disease, cataracts, and the attempts to treat the cataracts were futile. ijust i really.
condition and i had a cataract too that eventually, in my last remaining eye, just like baraka, it kind of, like, made my vision go and eventually that got, you know, it detached my retina at the back. sorry. cries it s ok, it s ok. it s completely fine. but, honestly, when you call baraka a blessing, it is a blessing. it is a blessing to be blind, because it means he s meant to teach people a lesson. he s meant to he s meant to be here to get people to understand that you shouldn t be poaching these beautiful animals. i m sorry. it s hard. it s taking an emotional toll on you, realising the journey that baraka has been through. james, is he happy? he is a happy rhino. i think the munching itself, you can tell.