Saving Africa's Elephants: Hugh and the Ivory War

Name: Saving Africa's Elephants: Hugh and the Ivory War
Released: 2016-10-24T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

TV Show · Documentary

Every day over 80 elephants are being killed in Africa for their ivory. At this rate, experts have warned, the African elephant could be extinct in the wild within 25 years. Hugh's on a mission to find out how this illegal trade can be stopped.

2016 · 51m

Starring Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Starting in the poaching hotspot of northern Mozambique, Hugh follows the ivory trail through the port of Mombasa in Kenya, where a whistleblower reveals the corruption that lets smuggled ivory through the port.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Hugh travels to South Africa, home to 70 percent of another iconic African species, the rhino. He learns that an estimated 25,000 rhino are left in Africa, and tragically they too are at the forefront of the poaching war. With six animals killed daily, their numbers are under even greater pressure than elephants.