Both Kenya and Botswana are countries...
where the natural ecosystem is well preserved.
They literally just walked in front of me.
I'd say people in Botswana and animals are...
living together.
I was very shocked...
by the fact that 22 elephants had died.
I wonder if they had to kill them like this.
I was shocked by how cruel one can be.
Look. They cut his spine here.
So that he could not defend himself and paralyze him.
I think I was scared.
My tears just flowed because I felt so sorry for that animal.
I was so sorry for that elephant.
I think it's been ten years...
since I've been to Chiang Mai.
I never thought deeply...
about the lives of elephants.
The elephant was much bigger than I had expected.
Oh, boy!
It's my first time, so it's a bit difficult.
When you spend time with elephants, they seem more and more like people.
Oh, you want me to put it there? All right.
I was just starting to get used to them,
being able to spend time with the elephants.
They met another world in Thailand, the country of elephants.
(Chiang Mai, Thailand)
We're now at Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai.
Unlike African elephants,
Asian elephants have no ivory.
Even if they have one, it's very short.
So the Thai elephants were never...
shot by poachers, at least because of ivory.
And I just thought it was a relief.
(Presenter, Yoo Hai Jin)
All right. There you go.
There's nothing left.
You have some...
and I can have some.
It's delicious.
It's salty and nice.
They almost seemed had nothing to worry about.
But as I spend more time with them,
I realized was totally wrong.
There was a whole different world here.
- This one is blind. - It's blind?
Yes, both eyes are blind.
If you see over there,
there are about 17 more blind elephants.
But why are they blind?
Are they born blind or is it because of some disease?
It's because they've been abused by things like sling-shot and stick.
- So this one can't see either? - No.
There are more than ten elephants that became blind here.
What have they gone through?
People usually ride on Asian elephants and move along a road.
And elephants are used for many events...
such as dragging trees, circus,
trekking, temple festivals, and so on.
They're also used in entertainment businesses...
such as marriage, sports, and soccer.
The problem is that elephants come here...
after being abused enough to cause brain damage.
People enjoy sightseeing on the back of the elephant.
More than 90 percent of Thai elephants are...
used for these kinds of tour packages.
Elephants can't be missed out in all kinds of festivals.
However, the training method and environment are the problems.
Ms. Chailert recently revealed this footage...
of the Buddist event in Sri Lanka.
The sight of an elephant called Tikiri...
at the event shocked the world.
I asked the keepers...
if Tikiri is supposed to be working when she was so skinny.
And they said she could.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
Because Tikiri wasn't even able to lift her legs up or close her eyes.
She was too old.
Her gaunt body was revealed as she took off the festival costume.
This was the true figure of an elephant who had been...
working hard for more than 50 years.
And after just a month,
Tikiri had died.
I knew about it to some degree but I was curious.
I wondered why elephants would...
work so obediently until they die when they're wild animals.
And I found out why.
The merely two-year-old baby elephant is forced...
to be separated from its mother.
And it'd be locked for 10 days as it gets tortured brutally.
She's tied into a cage where she barely fits.
Whenever she struggles...
This traditional Thai ceremony called phajaan makes...
the elephant lose memory and itself to extreme pain...
in order to exterminate its wildness.
More than a quarter of all elephants in Thailand go...
through this ceremony to be drawn...
for labor and various performances.
Some of these abused elephants die...
and some stop eating and drinking.
And some of them just pass out and die.
Other elephants suffer from disorders, mostly brain problems.
Rescuing those elephants was Ms. Chailert's main job.
And all the elephants I've met here were also rescued...
just before they were about to die.
Just before they get so sick and about to die,
their owners would let them go...
only after they're completely out of use.
The elephant arrives...
at the Elephant Nature Park in a wreck.
However,
it takes a long time for it to open up its mind...
to those who take care of it.
Because the memory of being abused remains...
in the elephant's head for life.
All 86 elephants that are here have...
this kind of injuries in both body and mind.
"This one also must have ended up here..."
"after giving rides to people and carrying logs."
Such thought crossed my mind.
You don't want it?
I'd say the elephants that are rescued to be here are...
lucky and happy.
There is about 200 elephants that has been rescued.
So on the other one hand,
I'm relieved to know that there are places like here exist for them.
More and more animals lose...
their places to live, and I doubted whether we could really...
coexist with them.
Maybe it's because I've only seen the good sides...
but I was able to think of it as a bit of a relief to know...
hat some people are actually trying to coexist.
But as soon as we step outside of this park,
nearly 4,000 elephants are still being mobilized...
for tourism, trekking, and labor throughout Thailand.
Familiar sights that have been...
casually seen while traveling Southeast Asia.
One, two, three. Good job.
But once you've opened your eyes to the truth behind it,
you can't laugh at them anymore.
The elephants I fed with Ms. Chailert kept...
overlapping with them.
They seemed to be in terrible shape compared to them.
I was too afraid to keep watching...
whether that skewer will poke them in their eyes again.
I was so sorry that I didn't know anything about it.
Come to think of it,
those behaviors are not something that wild animals would ever do.
I had my excuses for being indifferent,
but now I have to change...
since I saw the true picture of it.
If people do not threaten elephants, not hold a stick,
and have nothing in their hands,
the elephants can coexist with people.
The reason why...
elephants cannot live with us is that we humans abuse them.
That's why it's incompatible.
But if I just live from day to day, I'd forget about the elephants...
and keep on living my busy life.
And so Ms. Chailert told me this:
"Anyone can she tears for the elephants."
"But who will sweat for them?"
The possibility of coexistence might be an assignment given...
to those who are sweating for us on our behalf.
(Trophy Hunting)
(Kalispell, Montana, United States)
We drive to Montana in the Western United States,
where another protagonist of Humanimal lives.
Here you can find someone who makes coexistence...
between humans and animals possible using her own ways.
What are her own ways?
A place deep in the mountains where we have to drive...
two more hours from Montana and Helena.
The protagonist who led us all the way here is...
Olivia Opre.
(Olivia Opre, age 43, has 1 son and 3 daughters.)
She seems like a typical housewife who raises four children.
But her actual profession is...
hunting.
Her house is full of taxidermied animals she hunted herself.
It's a way of displaying trophies...
for commemorating her life as a hunter.
People such as Olivia who hunt for the purpose...
of displaying or leisure is called...
a trophy hunter.
(Trophy hunting- hunting animals to display and for leisure)
The trophy hunters recall thrilling moments...
they felt during the hunt through these taxidermied trophies.
Like if you look from this perspective, you can see all the...
The wrinkles and the faces. There's a lot of emotion and tenseness.
And this is a very good mature male lion. You can see he's got mane.
It's a really solid old guy.
And then this female, she was alone.
She was not a part of a pride anymore.
And that's when I took this female.
Olivia believes taxidermying animals like this is...
actually honoring lives.
All of these have a story.
I remember this hunt. You know the scenario,
the pursuit, the failures, and then the success. And the meat.
And now I continue to honor his life this way.
She always takes a picture for each hunt...
and shows it to the public.
These are very dangerous.
If you look from close, they're so...
Even if you just look at the taxidermied animals,
they are so big.
If they were to jump on you from close...
- This is the claws of a lion. - Lion?
Lion, yes. The claws.
Yes.
It's big.
It's so sharp.
Yes.
She retells her hunting stories just like a hero's tale.
But they don't sound appealing.
Neither her strong beliefs and confidence...
in trophy hunting.
Because I'm taking lives, I'm saving lives.
And it sounds like a contradiction,
but it is important to understand...
that hunters do...
the most for wildlife.
It's truly the mechanism for death. In the wild,
is never gentle or kind.
And this idea that a lion simply...
gets old and weak, and finds some flower-studded field,
and falls asleep in the sun and never wakes up...
is wrong.
He's going to be ripped to shreds.
He's going to have a terrible, sad death.
And so when you have this old lion,
why not take a hunter...
who will pay 80,000 dollars.
Trophy hunting started from European nobles who went on hunting trips.
Mostly animals permitted by law in Africa are hunted...
and a large amount of money is paid in return.
But nowadays 90 percent of the trophy hunters are Americans.
They confidently say...
that they use those rifles to maintain the ecosystem.
She always goes to Africa twice or three times every year.
(Chongwe, Zambia)
Trophy hunting was...
originally banned in Zambia.
As many species of animals facing extinction due to poaching,
they strictly forbid hunting.
But as the population started to increase slightly recently,
they are allowing hunting once again.
The economy is also a big reason for doing so.
The hunting business must be stimulated...
for the local residents to find jobs.
For each hunter, several local residents can form...
a team including a guide, chaser, and driver.
It's a group of impalas.
They can shoot whichever animals they want within their quota...
as long as they pay.
An impala comes in the range.
They are bullets made out of copper specifically designed for this hunt.
One gunshot.
The first bullet penetrates the impala's neck...
with pinpoint accuracy.
- Good girl. Well done. - Thank you.
- Well done. Thank you. - Thank you.
It's a beautiful ram.
I know we don't have a lot of time.
- We need to go hunt kudu. - Yes.
But we've got blood and we've got the impala for the leopard.
- And we have a dinner tonight. - And we have dinner tonight.
Okay.
She restrains the excitement...
and takes a picture in commemoration.
Yes, I'll turn my face more to you so you can actually see it's me.
And then maybe I'll have you take some pictures of me dragging it out.
Okay?
When you get out I'll walk straight to the sun.
I'm just going to pick him up.
Hold on.
Let me get this tongue.
Cleaning out the blood...
and making it seem as if it was alive is...
another important pose.
Okay, ready?
Great.
Thank you for conforming,
for your meat,
for your life,
I know that that animal has sacrificed...
so that others can live.
I recognize that. I give that animal...
that appreciation.
The reasoning used is that when the money paid here...
for hunting flows into the local community in Zambia,
a part of it can be used for animal resources protection,
which can...
make the overall animal species to prosper.
The steps full of more pride than guilt walk...
over the forest and head to the river.
Their second target is the hippopotamus.
Among them, there's something else that Olivia is targeting.
An old male.
That is, the father hippo.
There's a bigger one coming.
Hunting a female or a baby is...
an unspoken taboo among trophy hunters.
With the hippo,
90 percent of the time you're hunting them in the water.
Because that's where they spend the majority of their time.
At night time they come out and they'd graze in the grass,
and then the first...
inkling of the light is when they go back to the water.
Subsequently, I'm never going to have...
that vital organ opportunity...
which is your heart or lung.
Those are all underwater. And when a bullet hits the water,
it's worthless.
It's not going to do the damage that needs to be done.
So, therefore I have to be able to shoot that grapefruit-sized...
brain.
Because that is the quickest, most ethical shot.
The number of bullets permitted to hunt hippos is one.
However, a fully grown male hippo has...
a massive figure of over four meters long...
and a bad temper.
If the hunter fails to hit the vital spot with one shot,
it could be dangerous for them.
After 30 minutes,
the body of the hippo slowly rises...
to the surface of the water.
It's done. Good job. Well done.
Well done.
I hope. I never trust these creatures.
You know, they are so dangerous.
So in hunting,
Zambia first of all,
they are very specific about what you take.
And it must be a male,
you try not to ever have to take a female unless it's a life...
and death situation.
Because she'll reproduce and...
her babies are precious.
So you don't want to take a female,
especially because you can't see...
if she has maybe a baby under the water as well. So...
it's very important to take the male.
The justification for targeting an old male is...
preserving the species,
but the desire for the biggest trophy is mixed in as well.
Some pictures and let's start cutting it up.
The money Olivia paid...
for this hippo hunting is 3,500 dollars.
It's roughly about four million in Korean won.
Can we get some photos too?
Captured hippos get slaughtered on the spot,
and their skin and the head turn into a trophy.
An ironic reality where hunting is forbidden to the locals is...
only permitted to the foreigners...
who have paid a large sum of money.
After we took over at the end of 2015,
this area was not managed by anybody.
The area was just allowed to degenerate.
The poachers went crazy.
Illegal bushmeat,
you've seen villages that have been abandoned.
And those villages are abandoned.
Those are old people that before we came here, had no job at all.
They had no opportunity for employment at all.
The hippo's meat is given to the local residents for free.
It's an important reason why...
Olivia thinks that her hunt is justified.
But could that be...
grounds for justifying the controversy and criticism...
against trophy hunting?
Okay. Tell me when you are ready.
Right now. Throw it out there.
I'm going to be sore tomorrow.
Which I've been a victim of sensationalism...
several times, all over the world.
Because of their assumptions that I'm...
you know, beauty queen, bloodthirsty murderer.
The Animal Liberation Front...
put a quarter-million bounty on my head...
with my personal home address posted.
And...
the threats are nonstop.
They heat up at a time,
they die out at a time. But I still have to continue...
educating people...
about why it's important.
This is my passion. This is why I am to where I am now.
And they won't end.
Because there's not a lot of people...
that have the knowledge base that I have,
the experience that I have.
And the fearlessness that I have to take it on.
You know when I speak to...
somebody who opposes me,
I understand why they do. And it's really just ignorance.
But our goal is the same.
We both want to preserve wildlife.
In reality, there are many who share the same opinion as Olivia.
Trophy hunting is happening all around the world...
under the justification of hunting for species preservation.
The animals that are hunted vary...
and there are men and women of all ages among the hunters.
They pull on the trigger to feel...
that sensation on their hands just like fishermen.
You know, I've wanting to hunt for giraffes since...
Humans are the only species...
that routinely kill animals for pleasure.
There are, for example, hunters.
The trophy hunters who hunt lions...
and elephants in Africa.
Lions and elephants are endangered,
and so there is increasing protest...
about trophy hunting. The trophy hunters...
defend themselves by saying: "We pay a lot of money..."
"for the right to kill that lion,"
"and the money goes to the local community."
"So the Africans in this area..."
"get money from lions."
"It gives the Africans motivation not to kill lions themselves,"
"but to regard lions as a resource, to protect lions..."
"in order that they can receive ten thousand dollars..."
"from an American hunter who comes in and kills that lion."
There is much debate about it.
In terms of weaponry, equipment, and media opportunities,
trophy hunting is already growing into a major industry.
Many countries where the industry is a major source of revenue are...
concentrated on the African continent.
Among them, South Africa is...
at the center of the industry.
(Republic of South Africa 112 million dollars)
(Thabazimbi, Republic of South Africa)
South Africa makes the greatest revenue from trophy hunting.
(Kim Woo Bin, narrator)
It brings in over two trillion KRW annually from the hunting industry.
Around 6,000 hunters from around the world...
visit the country each year.
These animals are raised for the sole purpose of the industry.
Wildlife is not regulated by the South African government,
but is left to private landowners for commercial utilization.
There are nearly 9,000 business...
that keeps animals behind fences to be hunted for sport.
(Canned hunting: hunting animals bred and trapped behind fences)
As long as they're willing to pay,
hunters are allowed to hunt any animal found on the site's grounds.
The purpose of the safari is not to drive around the grounds...
to get a glimpse of the roaming wildlife...
but to hunt game with their own hands.
Wait, just give me a second and I will look. Hold on.
Yes, you can shoot.
Due to their large size,
it takes some time for kudus to fall prey.
However...
Congratulations.
- Thank you, my friend. - Well done.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
What a beautiful animal.
Just look at this.
The trophy hunters would do anything to get their hands...
on these beautiful horns,
no matter what the cost may be.
Everything that we do...
goes back to the communities.
These communities...
are supporting...
the rights, the jobs for us, the people to do...
the work,
and in this way, we give back.
I always want to ask...
my anti-hunter friends that are always against us hunting.
What did you do...
for poor people today?
Nothing.
- Okay. - Let's go.
- One, two. - One, two, three!
Their firm conviction that trophy hunting is saving South Africa,
the belief that they're helping the community...
serve to satisfy their own ambitions.
(Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe)
It makes one wonder.
People who want to save the animals,
as well as those who hunt them...
claim that it is a means of cohabitation.
Will there ever be an end to this dispute?
Before I came to Zimbabwe,
I never really gave it much thought before,
to be honest.
The term, "trophy hunting", was fairly new to me.
It seemed like something that was far away,
something that had nothing to do with me.
It seemed like a mirage on the horizon.
But I came across a book while I was researching for the trip,
and thought that if I met this person from the book,
that I might be able to find some answers.
(Hwange, Zimbabwe)
Brent was part of a research team from Oxford University...
that studied lions at the Zimbabwe national parks.
He told me about what happens...
when we kill an old male lion,
whether it was intentional or not.
For instance, a hunter wants to shoot the biggest lion he can.
But in nature, the biggest lion is the one with the cubs.
If you have a hunter shooting the biggest lion,
the weaker one comes and kills all the cubs.
So now you're going against evolution, against nature.
There is a big social change.
It's like the father of the house is gone.
This massive male lion is the one...
that Brent had studied during his time...
as a researcher.
(Cecil, male, age 13 at time of filming)
This lion's name is Cecil.
He is the head of his pack,
which consists of six female lions...
and 24 baby lion cubs.
I've seen the videos of him,
and the charisma he emanates is impressive.
There is a number of things that make Cecil special,
and one was his size.
He was 1m 20cm at the shoulder,
maybe 250kg,
and a big, black mane.
His mane was jet black.
Tourists flocked to see him...
at the national park.
Because of his grandeur,
he became quite famous,
almost like the mascot of Zimbabwe.
But his fame also caught the eye of the hunters.
There is a railway track...
that's the boundary between the park and the hunting area.
They used an elephant as bait, dragged it...
and made a blood trail so that the lion could smell the meat.
The hunters were solely after Cecil from the start.
Hunting at the national park is strictly forbidden,
so they lured Cecil into the hunting area...
on the other side of the railway.
He comes out of the park,
and he is now legally...
in a hunting area.
But the paperwork wasn't in place.
They destroyed the collar.
So if it was legal, why did they destroy our collar?
So it was completely illegal.
The hunters shot a crossbow into the lion in the dark of the night.
Their claim...
that they were preserving wildlife in a legal and ethical way was...
nothing more than a facade.
The man who had shot, beheaded and skinned Cecil the lion was...
an American dentist...
by the name of Walter Palmer.
(Walter Palmer, dentist, United States)
Why did you... Mr. Palmer!
But when news of Cecil's death spread across the globe,
the international community was enraged...
and responded strongly to the incident.
We'll never forget what you did, Palmer!
A bill was passed...
which prohibited the import of hunted lion carcasses...
into the United States.
But the problem is...
that the hunting community continues to oppose the movement.
Cecil...
was a very old lion.
Lions usually don't live past the age of 9,
rarely.
This lion was 13 years old.
That's like a 110-year-old man.
And this dentist, who had all the permits in place,
took this lion.
This was a legal hunt. Everything about it was legal.
But they threw this Walter Palmer under the bust,
destroyed his life,
and brought awareness...
to the safari-hunting world...
that was painted in such a picture.
They claim they were only making financial use of a lion...
that was old and nearing the end of its life.
And the profits from the hunt all went back to the community.
It was done legally and abided by the principles of trophy hunting.
These are the claims of the hunters.
They assert...
that they're only contributing to the African community...
and that environmentalists are responsible for slandering them.
Locals are trained and told that hunting is good for conservation.
People justify it, saying that they can come and hunt a lion...
because they pay...
and that the money goes into conservation and the communities.
The reality is that it doesn't.
Look at the story of Cecil.
Not one dollar from the slaying of that lion...
came to the people that lived with those lions.
In a report by an international wildlife support organization,
only three percent of the revenue from trophy hunting...
in South Africa is...
contributed to the local communities.
An awful lot of money goes to the outfitters...
who take their clients on safari,
and a lot of that money ends up...
with corrupt government officials.
So although some will...
benefit the local community,
not that much.
An increasing number of countries are permitting trophy hunting,
and lions are the most important products in the industry.
Currently, only around 20,000 lions remain...
in the African continent.
It's been four years since they've been...
declared an endangered species,
but lion hunting continues to prevail today.
(40 percent of lions in Africa have disappeared in the past 10 years.)
(5,600 lions are killed each year, due to trophy hunting practices.)
What I cannot understand is...
how it could be pleasurable...
for anybody...
to go and shoot...
a beautiful elephant with big tusks. Most of them have already gone.
Of course, the hunters want the ones with the biggest tusks,
and that's removing their genes from the population.
So elephants are born with smaller tusks today.
And how could out and want to shoot...
a magnificent lion with a beautiful black mane?
How could anybody want to shoot a giraffe?
Those beautiful, graceful animals,
and they, too, are moving towards...
lower and lower numbers that could lead to extinction.
After hearing Brent's explanation,
I felt as if I'd met Cecil myself.
As if he might suddenly appear...
right in front of my eyes.
The most famous lion in the world...
that brought about...
the greatest enlightenment through its death.
But what about us?
How have we changed through the great lion's death?
I have yet to find...
the answer to the question.
(Save the wild bear from danger!)
(The people who put in their all for a peaceful coexistence)
(How big is the role of humanity?)
(A journey to find a way for us to coexist with animals)
(Taiji, the dolphin-hunting Japanese village)
(The reality behind their dolphin prison...)
(and the merciless scene of slaughter.)
(From where do humans get their cruelty?)
(Humanimal Episode 3 A Dangerous Tradition)
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