In 1, 2, 3.
At the time, I was really interested...
in lions. So when...
they said it was a documentary, I said: "I'd love to do it!"
That was my reaction.
In a way,
I started this simply because I wanted to see the animals.
(The start of Humanimal's journey)
It just started out with the love for animals.
Look, it's a lion.
It's so cute.
I saw a lion.
Since I really love nature,
I appreciate anything that...
has to do with nature.
The feeling of connection with animals...
was something I felt for the first time in my life.
What kind of presence can humans become to animals?
That curiosity...
lead us to this journey.
Its face was huge.
It wasn't the sound we heard from "The Lion King".
It definitely did not sound like that.
I can't even mimic the roar.
It's not a simple roar.
Thanks to the animals, we experienced something very special.
And I, too,
started out simply because I wanted...
(Kim Woo Bin, narrator, actor)
to convey that vivid journey to you.
Did you always like animals?
I asked myself that question...
while recording this.
I thought I loved animals.
Because I like looking at animals,
and I didn't feel uncomfortable looking at that.
But is that really what loving animals is?
Was it?
(And the efforts that were added upon one by one)
Cue.
It seems the elephants...
depend on Chailert more than the other zookeepers.
Beyond Japan, Europe, and America.
Although I couldn't be at the scene, the landscape, the sound,
and the touch of the animals...
are displayed through the UHD screen as though I could touch them.
From the elephants in Africa...
to the dolphins of the Pacific,
and beyond Botswana, Zimbabwe, Kenya,
South Africa, Thailand, Japan, Europe,
and America.
This was filmed over a year in 10 countries on 4 continents.
We captured the wonders of Mother Nature.
However...
(Park Shin Hye, presenter)
It brings tears to my eyes if I think about it.
An unexpected truth she encountered before she was even ready.
(The bare face of the ruler)
We saw the bare face...
of humans, the rulers of the wild.
I was completely mistaken.
Over there was a totally different world.
I was so sorry about...
the fact that I didn't know.
Everything was the doing of humans.
The lives killed and trapped...
by human greed were there.
It's a heartbreaking story.
I think that human beings are the scariest beings on Earth.
What is a human being...
in the Earth's ecosystem?
Is it possible for humans and animals to coexist?
(Is it possible for humans and animals to coexist?)
We are on the journey to finding the answer.
The answer may not be in Africa,
but right next to us.
But the process...
was a series of hardships and adventures.
Hurry. Let's get out of here.
It was a quest to capture the most dramatic moment of human-animal...
coexistence that took a year and 2 months,
through 5 trips around the globe.
They were times when we realized that those animals were mirrors...
reflecting human form.
We invite you on our journey.
(Humanimal)
(Episode 1: Killing elephants)
Both Kenya and Botswana...
are countries where natural ecosystems...
are well preserved.
There was a reason why we went to Botswana, the south of Africa.
(Kasane)
It was the elephants.
It was the best place to see this amazing animal.
It's the place where the most elephants live on Earth.
Out of the number of elephants living in Africa, one in three...
are here in Botswana.
I think there are 6 or 7 elephants.
Well,
I can't see the babies because they're obscured.
I have to count by looking at their trunks.
I can't...
see their bodies.
So I count their trunks.
It was my first time seeing so many elephants...
in my whole life.
I heard the number of elephants in Africa is shrinking.
Does that not concern here?
Apparently, there are over 130,000 elephants in Botswana alone.
Over 130,000 elephants.
It's soothing...
just to watch them.
It was, until I met Dr. Chase.
(Dr. Mike Chase, Elephants Without Borders)
He says he has something to show me. What could it be?
While traveling on the helicopter twice,
something comes into view.
What he showed us...
was an elephant lying in the middle of the meadow.
Can you smell it?
- Yes. - Yes?
It's a little rotten. It means we're getting close.
It's over there.
Yes.
Do you want to go in front of me?
- No. - Is it okay? All right.
The smell's getting...
- Yes. - stronger.
Let's check.
It was an elephant carcass.
Only its skin was left a month after it died due to dryness.
The smell still feels clear.
But after I took a closer look,
I found its head was missing.
And here you can see where we came to visit it.
What the poacher did.
They chopped it to get the tusks out.
And this bull,
he might have been 45 to 50 years old.
So he was carrying...
heavy tusks.
The elephant was killed because of its tusks.
The poachers chopped off its whole head...
to get the tusks.
Come. I'll show you.
Look.
Gosh.
They cut his spine here...
so that he could not defend himself, to paralyze him.
If you cut the spine, he can't move. He can't use his trunk.
When they were cutting his head with the chainsaw,
the elephant was still alive.
How could they do such a thing...
when it's...
still alive?
They don't want...
to shoot another bullet and make a huge sound.
It gives the sound away,
and they're saving their bullets...
to kill more elephants.
When I first heard...
about the poachers,
I thought they kill it with a gun first...
and then take the tusks.
But coming here and seeing it myself,
it's a big shock...
because I know how cruel this is.
It's a method used to cut the ivory to the deepest roots.
For an expert poacher,
it only takes half a day.
However, that was not the end.
For two months, 25 elephants...
were poached.
Elephants came into Botswana...
to escape poaching from nearby Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The poachers then formed a large organization...
and started poaching expeditions.
When they're finished,
they will conceal the carcass...
with bushes so that...
people like us, of Elephants Without Borders, who are flying,
cannot see that carcass...
or discover it months later when they're back...
at their home safely.
And in some cases, unfortunately,
once the poachers have killed, shot an elephant,
they will open it up, they will cut it,
peel back the skin, and chuck poison...
into the carcass.
Their methods are evolving more and more.
Just at the beginning of this year,
a flock of hawks was found dead next to a dead elephant.
The total number of hawks killed was 537.
The poachers killed them using poison as they were afraid...
that the flock of hawks would reveal their position.
I think I was just...
scared.
I was scared...
- Afraid of people? - Yes, of people.
I couldn't help but tear up. I felt so much resentment for that animal,
for the elephant.
I even felt sorry...
that I was smiling when looking at it the other day.
Since 2017, the sales of ivory...
has been banned internationally.
But the number of poachers is growing...
as if they are mocking this fact.
This is because the price of ivory increased...
as the sales of ivory got banned.
Ivory is traded in the global black market...
at a price of 2,000 dollars per kilogram.
Not only that, ivory crafts are...
still traded legally in Asian markets.
A vicious cycle where discarding the ivory causes...
the value of the ivory to increase, resulting in more poaching.
African elephants decreased in their number by 30 percent...
in just 7 years from 2007 to 2014.
(Elephant population, 490,000 in 2007, 350,000 in 2014)
Now six years later,
their numbers are still diminishing quickly, them facing extinction.
But it's always like that.
It's so simple to destroy something,
but it's really difficult to recover it.
I'm hoping it isn't the case with elephants at this point yet.
That's why Dr. Chase has been deeply focused on this work recently.
That is to separately manage large elephants...
which are easy targets to poachers due to their large tusks.
I followed along...
as this seemed to be the last resort to protect the remaining elephants.
I did get a bit scared...
as it was a group with males of large sizes.
You see how big they are? Look how many. Beautiful.
Big bulls.
The biggest bulls in Botswana are here.
- In here? - Yes.
This makes me happy,
to see them alive.
They are really big.
It seems to be a herd of the biggest ones I've seen yet.
The elephants seem to get nervous as the car approaches their herd...
and likewise for me.
What's going on? A large elephant is on the ground.
Dr. Chase and the veterinarian are checking if it's still breathing.
- What did you say? - It seems to be dead.
It seems to be dead?
It doesn't seem to be a deed of a poacher as it still has its tusks.
But recently, the number of elephants...
suddenly dying in this manner has been increasing...
as the elephants are moving longer distances due to severe drought.
In most parts of the elephant range,
humans are...
threatening elephants.
After poaching,
the most immediate threat to elephants is...
the loss of living space.
We are taking land away that belongs to elephants.
As we are doing so,
we are killing elephants, we are destroying their habitats.
That means they have no food or water.
Elephants are becoming very stressed,
anxious, psychologically and nutritionally.
So Dr. Chase is primarily working on...
attaching tracking devices on the elephants.
It's a device that shows the location of the elephant herd...
as well as their survival status.
The veterinarian has to anesthetize them first.
They must pick a bull that is a bit away from the herd.
That way, the other elephants wouldn't be startled...
from the sound of the tranquilizer gun.
It takes about 40 to 45 minutes for the tranquilizer to take effect,
so we must follow the elephant until then in case it enters...
a dangerous zone.
If the tranquilizer doesn't work well and the elephant wakes up,
it would be too dangerous for people.
But on the contrary, if the tranquilizer is too strong,
it could kill the elephant.
The elephant's airway must be secured first...
and then the tracker must be attached around its neck.
It takes less than 30 minutes for the tranquilizer to wear off.
No problem.
Tighter?
Excellent. Well done, Shin Hye.
This elephant has just reached its adulthood,
but fortunately, its breathing was stable.
Well done, Shin Hye.
Okay? We're going to pour the water over the elephant's ears.
All over the ears.
Good. Well done.
Maintaining body temperature at this point is important.
The elephant can lose consciousness from a sudden rise in body heat,
so we need to add water starting on the ears...
where the blood vessels are packed together.
It's good. Well done. You've put the tracker on.
It's nice.
Lots of space for him to grow.
Okay? Well done.
Excellent job.
Thank you.
Shin Hye, thank you.
Okay.
All right.
So we just wait in the cars.
My hands are shaking.
Is it breathing?
Now we just need...
to wait for the elephant to wake up.
Come on.
Come on. Up you get.
Come on. There we go.
Up you go. Come on.
He feels more anxious as he just saw...
a dead elephant earlier on.
It's getting up.
Nice. Good boy.
Fortunately, the elephant gets up.
The tracker must feel unnatural for it.
It keeps touching its neck.
But this elephant will be safer...
against the threats of poaching.
The tracker on its neck will be...
showing its position in real time via the satellite.
Then how many elephants have you...
attached the GPS collars on...
so far?
To date, we've had 186 elephants collared. Yes.
Are all the elephants with the collars still alive?
Unfortunately not, no.
Not all the elephants.
In the last few years,
six have been poached.
But...
that is why we put these collars on,
to do our very best to protect them,
to keep them safe from poachers.
- I'm sorry. - We do what we can.
But you are doing...
something marvelous, Mike.
Thank you.
Have you ever doubted yourself while working on this job?
Look, I've witnessed,
I've observed elephant poaching in other countries...
while flying the Great Elephant Census.
I feel responsible...
for conserving these animals.
The fact that I'm seeing this happening,
when I'm supposed to be looking after them and protecting them,
Somedays, I think like I'm failing elephants, yes.
The poachers are mainly...
after the father elephants with large tusks.
(Narrator, Kim Woo Bin)
That's why in Botswana, there are more and more...
orphaned elephants that have lost their fathers to poachers.
Hey, my girl. Hey, hello.
Hello.
They're running.
Taking care of these elephants...
is what Dr. Mike Chase and his colleagues do.
It wants it quickly.
You drank all of it.
Is it throwing a tantrum and saying it tastes bad?
They're young elephants who aren't even two years old.
The saddest thing is that...
they saw their parents be poached in front of them.
Looking after a baby elephant...
that has just lost its mother...
is one of the most difficult things...
I've ever had to do.
It requires...
a lot of attention...
and effort. You have to be with that little elephant...
24 hours, 7 days. Around the clock. If you leave it,
for any amount of time, it'll die of a broken heart.
Elephants know who they are...
and share a strong bond with their families.
They boast one of the highest levels of memory...
between animals.
The death of a family member right in front of their eyes...
will be a big shock to an elephant.
Elephants will remember for the rest of their lives...
what humans have done to them.
Dr. Chase asked me to name...
an elephant with a GPS connected to it.
So, I named it Hope.
The word "hope" in Botswana is "tsholofêlô."
Isn't the pronunciation pretty?
I'm hearing that Tsholofêlô is hard at work moving along the plains...
and sending us signals. What a relief it is to hear that.
But it's also scary.
When the tusks of these baby elephants grow,
they will also be in danger of being poached.
The thought of that is very scary.
Can it all end before that?
Do humans have...
the will to end it?
(Botswana is home to 40 percent of the African elephant population.)
(Starting September 2019, the Botswana government lifted...)
(restrictions on poaching and has allowed the hunt of elephants.)
(Chiang Mai, Thailand)
We observed dreariness on the other side of the world, in Africa.
But elephants live in Asia as well.
The country that has deemed elephants sacred the most,
Thailand.
Viewing it as a mystical creature and an embodiment of war,
the country has worshipped elephants since centuries ago.
In religious events in neighboring countries,
the elephant always appears.
In what kind of world...
do the elephants live here?
(Presenter, Yoo Hai Jin)
Hello.
I want to go to Elephant Nature Park.
Has it been about ten years since I last came to Chiang Mai?
It's been about that long.
Then, I didn't give much thought to it.
I simply thought that Thailand was a country with many elephants.
I never thought deeply...
about the lives of elephants.
So on the way there, I was a bit worried.
I wasn't sure what kind of situation I'd run into.
Elephants seemed to be...
distant animals to me.
We're headed to Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai.
It's 50 km away from the city,
located in the mountainsides.
I didn't imagine for there to be a place like this.
I was a bit surprised.
There were dozens of elephants in one glance,
but they all seemed relaxed.
They seem very different from elephants that live confined.
At the park, there are 86 elephants...
and over 100 workers taking care of them.
The person who made this huge park...
was surprisingly a middle-aged woman...
with a tiny figure.
- Lek Chailert? - Hello.
- Nice to meet you. - Thank you for visiting here.
You're welcome.
- My name is Yoo. - Yoo?
Every morning, I have to check if they are healthy.
Can I join you?
- Does he know how to ride a bike? - She asks if you can ride a bike.
Yes, I know how to ride a bike.
The elephant was much bigger than I had expected.
But...
it touches its face with its nose!
Okay.
You try that one.
It's my first time, so it's a bit difficult.
Thank you.
What do I do with this?
How do I use this?
It's a bit difficult because it's my first time.
It took a little time for me to get used to...
being in the same space as an elephant.
Hey.
Yes.
It's so peaceful here.
It's peaceful.
Imagine riding a bike in this huge park every morning...
and feeding these elephants one by one.
It won't be an easy task.
The amount of food that an elephant eats in one day...
is 100 kg.
They eat so well!
It's my first time...
seeing an elephant up this close.
This must be a baby.
When it was five months old, its mother died.
Lek Chailert knew all of their stories.
Maybe that was why...
the elephants seemed to depend on Lek Chailert...
more than the other zookeepers.
And the shocking thing was that...
the way they communicated wasn't like between human and animal.
Should I say it was as if they were naturally having a conversation?
When you spend time with elephants, they seem more and more like people.
They say an elephant has the intelligence of a five-year-old.
That's why it expresses a lot of affection.
It's holding her hand.
It loves her.
Come here and feed them directly.
Take some feed.
Oh, this is feed.
In there?
All right.
I'll bring some more.
It's opening its mouth.
I was just starting to get used to them,
This is delicious.
being able to spend time with the elephants.
But the problem was...
that while spending time with them,
I started to notice things...
that I couldn't before.
(A different reality...)
(that we weren't aware of...)
(and is difficult to believe)
(And tears)
(Stuffing an animal with human greed)
(Facing human greed)
(The most violent ruler, humans)
(Lives taken away with one shot)
(Pleasure and ruin brought upon by greed)
(Humanimal Episode 2, Trophy Hunter)
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