CICADA FILMS FINAL SCRIPT THIS WORLD TIGER TRAFFIC VIDEO DESCRIPTION TIMECODE/ MUSIC T/C DIALOGUE TITLE SEQUENCE - TITLE THIS WORLD 10:00:00 MUSIC IN L/A top of disused building 10:00:06 CU broken windows in building CAPTION: bottom pic ‘BBC’ 10:00:09 View looking out of window onto landscape 10:00:12 MWS large disused building CAPTION: bottom white letters ‘BOKOR, Cambodia’ 10:00:15 BCU tiger’s ear 10:00:20 MWS road through landscape 10:00:21 BCU tiger’s eyes 10:00:25 MWS white truck on road in distance 10:00:27 MCU Steve and man backs to cam looking out to trucks in distance 10:00:31 10:00:34 STEVE GALSTER (V/O) I was doing research on things like drugs and guns regarding Afghanistan, Iraq, south-west Asia, sort of black market operations. MWS open trucks carrying rangers drive up to large building 10:00:39 MWS Steve and man standing on steps of building 10:00:45 10:00:49 STEVE GALSTER (V/O) Having a national security background I was aware of the fact that most countries even the poor countries had fairly well trained police and military who might have been focused on fighting a drug war, human trafficking, civil war etc.. MCU Steve and man backs to cam looking out to trucks in distance 10:00:52 CU Steve Galster 10:00:55 MWS rangers jump out of back of truck 10:00:56 MWS rangers jump out of truck 10:00:58 P/R MCU rangers lined up 10:01:02 10:01:03 COMM: But these men aren’t fighting drug runs or rebel armies.. they’re conservationists. But unlike traditional environmental groups, they’re heavily armed. CU picking up guns 10:01:12 MWS rangers with guns stood in a line 10:01:13 CU gun 10:01:15 CU Steve Galster MCU Steve walking 10:01:16 10:01:17 COMM: Led by an expert in surveillance and special operations, they’ve declared war on the poachers who traffic in endangered species.. MWS man opens car door 10:01:19 CU tiger skin 10:01:21 MCU man with tiger skin 10:01:22 MWS rangers in forest 10:01:24 COMM: The desperate struggle to preserve the world’s wildlife has led to controversial methods.. CU ranger with cigarette in mouth 10:01:25 CU ‘device’ 10:01:27 CU fixing device 10:01:28 CU ranger 10:01:29 P/F CU dial on machine 10:01:30 COMM: From undercover operations, to armed raids. CU gun in hands 10:01:32 MCU ranger with gun, ranger standing in b/ground 10:01:34 L/A MCU ranger walking in forest 10:01:35 STEVE (V/O) You wouldn’t send cops out on the borders to fight a drug war without a gun.. MCU group with guns 10:01:38 MCU ranger arm in air P/R to MS ranger running holding gun 10:01:39 STEVE (V/O) Why would you send somebody into the forest after loggers and poachers who are carrying guns and hand grenades, its crazy.. L/A MCU two rangers with gun 10:01:42 MWS ranger in forest 10:01:44 CU gun 10:01:45 CU ranger 10:01:46 10:01:47 MAN (V/O) These guys have been shot at, some of them have been killed.. there’s real danger out there. MCU ranger aiming gun 10:01:48 P/F CU gun 10:01:49 MCU line of rangers aim guns 10:01:50 P/F tip of gun 10:01:51 BCU tiger’s eyes 10:01:52 S/I white letters over pic TITLE ‘TIGER TRAFFIC’ 10:01:54 10:01:59 MUSIC OUT P/R CU ‘arrivals board’ in airport 10:02:01 MWS people in airport lounge CAPTION: bottom pic ‘Vladivostok, Russia’ 10:02:09 CU side profile Sergei 10:02:13 MS Sergei greets Steve in airport lounge 10:02:17 10:02:19 COMM: Steve Galster has been coming to Russia’s far east for ten years.. 10:02:29 COMM: As usual he is met by his friend Sergei Bereznuk the director of a local wildlife fund. MWS Steve and Sergei walk out of airport building 10:02:33 10:02:35 COMM: A decade ago they helped to set up inspection tiger, a network of anti poaching patrols. Steve gets into car left pick, back to cam 10:02:42 10:02:43 It’s a radical new approach to wildlife conservation, and now its spreading all over the world. MS Sergei walks past front of van 10:02:48 Sergei gets into van right pic, back to cam 10:02:49 10:02:50 STEVE (V/O) We’re working to stop the international illegal wildlife trade which means you don’t work in any one particular country because commercial wildlife traffickers are targeting species, be it tigers or bears or whatever they’re making money off, wherever they can find them, and wherever law enforcement is low. MWS van moves off in car park 10:02:57 MCU Steve and Sergei in van, backs to cam, cam looking out through windscreen to road 10:03:10 10:03:11 STEVE (SYNC) So no snow yet.. 10:03:13 SERGEI (SYNC) No snow yet it’s a long, long time still.. 10:03:16 STEVE (V/O) When I first came out here it was the very end of 1993, the iron curtain had been lifted and the law enforcement infrastructure of the Russian far east was full of chaos there was a lot of crime going on.. CU Sergei 10:03:20 CU side profile Steve 10:03:23 MS Steve sat next to round window, face to cam CAPTION: bottom pic ‘Steve Galster WILDAID’ 10:03:27 10:03:29 STEVE (SYNC) It was clear that it was pretty organised that er you had local middle men sometimes sort of mid level mafia people, linked up with Korean, Chinese, and other foreign a nationals, sending the stuff out, not just tiger parts but bear, everything else. WS view over pacific, hills b/ground 10:03:41 MUSIC IN 10:03:45 COMM: This is Khasansky region on Russia’s pacific coast.. WS landscape WS landscape 10:03:50 10:03:53 A vast wilderness bordering China and north Korea, that was once home to hundreds of wild tigers and leopards. Now very few remain. They’ve been hunted almost to extinction. MWS van on road, road sign top right corner 10:03:59 CU boots crunching in snow 10:04:05 MS tiger visible through branches of tree 10:04:07 CU side profile man in hat 10:04:09 MS tiger jumps up 10:04:11 MCU man, back to cam 10:04:13 MS tiger running through snow 10:04:15 MS tiger jumps at fence, walks off 10:04:16 MS tiger walking through snow 10:04:22 MUSIC OUT COMM: This tiger is ferocious, literally, that’s his name. MCU man in hat 10:04:26 MS tiger, behind fence 10:04:29 COMM: Ferocious is an amur tiger, commonly called a Siberian tiger. He lives in his Russian homeland but he isn’t free. In 1996 when he was just a cub, he almost fell pray to a gang of poachers.. MWS tiger behind fence, man standing to right 10:04:44 10:04:45 COMM: ..But was rescued by a former tiger hunter who now cares for him in a refuge. MCU man in cap, face to cam 10:04:54 MAN (SYNC) Some guys tried to catch him but he fought back and scratched.. They cut some sticks to try to control him, they broke his jaw.. MCU tiger, Ferocious. 10:05:05 10:05:07 MAN (SYNC) And then brought him to me, for a bottle of vodka.. MCU man in cap, face to cam 10:05:10 MS tiger walking down side of fence 10:05:14 MAN (V/O) Somewhere he lost his mother, no-one knows what happened to her. MWS Ferocious the tiger left fence, man right fence 10:05:22 10:05:23 COMM: Ferocious is now an orphan, stuck here until he dies. He is too dependent on his keeper to be released into the wild, but at least in his enclosure he’s safe from the deadly trade that’s going on in the world outside. CU Ferocious paws in snow P/B to man crouched left fence, tiger right fence 10:05:32 10:05:38 STEVE GALSTER (V/O) The tiger is very valuable once you break it down into its various body parts.. MS Steve, sat left of round window, face to cam 10:05:43 (SYNC) I mean its valuable live, because you might have it as a pet or in a, in a farm or a zoo to attract attention er, on top of that if you want to kill it.. MCU tiger 10:05:52 (V/O) ..you can sell everything from the head, you can sell the skin the claws the meat, you can sell the blood.. The penis is also highly sought after as a aphrodisiac.. MS Steve, sat left of window, face to cam 10:06:07 (SYNC) Or if you take the whole body, break it down into its body parts grind it up into various medicines, pills etc.. MCU tiger 10:06:13 (V/O) ..you can bring the value of your tiger in total to about 50 thousand US dollars. 10:06:19 MUSIC IN 10:06:20 COMM: Ten years ago when Steve first arrived in Russia, as many as 70 tigers a year were being killed, there were less than a few hundred left. MCU Steve left and Sergei right driving car, backs to cam, road visible through windscreen 10:06:29 10:06:30 STEVE (V/O) The situation warranted an extreme response so we set up a special unit, Inspection Tiger, the professional group of sort of ex soldiers and rangers, people who were going to go out and patrol the area, and disrupt this trade. WS P/R across landscape 10:06:44 10:06:45 COMM: Inspection Tiger now has 6 anti poaching patrols in Russia’s far east. One of the key patrols is based in the coastal town of Slavyanka, just ten miles from the Chinese border. WS view over town, mountains b/ground 10:06:55 MWS view over town, tree left f/ground 10:07:00 COMM: Since Inspection Tiger started tiger numbers were thought to have stabilised.. MS Steve and Sergei walk up to gate next to building 10:07:04 But they’re still under threat and its feared that in this area there may be as few as 18 tigers left. CU side profile Sergei, presses buzzer 10:07:09 MCU person back to cam, next to monitor, picks up phone 10:07:11 MUSIC OUT CU side profile Sergei, hand on buzzer 10:07:15 SERGEI BEREZNUK (SYNC) Its Sergei Bereznuk, I’ve come to see Yurchenko.. MCU person back to cam, next to monitor, puts phone down 10:07:18 10:07:19 COMM: Steve and Sergei want to find out more about what’s going on here. MWS Steve and Sergei walk through gate 10:07:20 MS Andrei Yurchenko walking past truck 10:07:23 10:07:26 COMM: Slavyanka’s anti poaching patrol is led by Andre Yurchenko a former lieutenant colonel in the Russian special forces and a veteran of Chechnya and Afghanistan. MWS two men untie motorbike tied to frame 10:07:33 10:07:34 COMM: For eight years he and his team of rangers have battled tiger poachers with very limited resources. Sergei and Steve walk into room, greet Andrei.. 10:07:38 10:07:43 ANDRE YURCHENKO (SUBTITLE) Hi guys, hi Steve.. meet my colleagues.. MS Steve and Sergei shakes hands with team, sit down 10:07:47 MS men sat on sofa 10:07:56 10:07:57 STEVE (SYNC) So if you could describe to us what you know about trade routes in this particular region that would be useful.. MS Andrei and Steve, sitting facing map on wall 10:08:01 MCU Andrei and Steve, side profiles, looking at map 10:08:03 10:08:05 ANDREI (SYNC) We are here in Slavyanka.. Smuggling out of Khasansky region either goes to Usserisk, or to the border with China.. MCU Sergei 10:08:14 STEVE (SYNC) This passes over into China, there’s a road here that goes straight into China.. CU pointing to map CU side profile Andrei 10:08:18 10:08:19 ANDREI (SYNC) Yes there’s a railway and a road.. Its possible that tiger or leopard derivatives go to Usserisk, and later from there across this section of the border.. CU side profile Steve 10:08:24 CU side profile Andrei, pointing to map 10:08:25 WS view across landscape, train visible in distance centre pic 10:08:31 MUSIC IN CU ranger with hand held telescope 10:08:35 WS view across landscape 10:08:40 MS ranger with telescope, landscape b/ground 10:08:42 10:08:44 STEVE (V/O) We’re focused on areas that are bio diverse rich and have very little law enforcement sort of soft spots that commercial traders are going to target because profits are high risks are low. CU dog left pic, landscape b/ground 10:08:47 WS view across landscape 10:08:49 MCU man driving jeep shot from outside looking in windscreen 10:08:54 MWS jeep driving along road between fields 10:08:56 10:08:58 COMM: Out here the risks to poachers is very low. MCU ranger and dog in back of jeep 10:09:01 Inspection Tiger has just three men and a dog to patrol an area of 5,000 square kilometres.. MWS jeep and trailer driving along snowy track 10:09:05 CU moving wheel of jeep 10:09:08 CU side profile ranger driving jeep 10:09:09 10:09:10 COMM: With one old Soviet jeep and a newly donated motorbike, the task they face is enormous. MWS ranger riding motorbike 10:09:12 MS two rangers standing talking 10:09:17 10:09:18 COMM: There are 60 thousand registered hunters in the Siberian tiger habitat, where the majority admit to poaching.. MS ranger walking with dog 10:09:22 MWS ranger walking back to cam, dog following 10:09:25 MCU ranger, bends down 10:09:27 10:09:28 COMM: The evidence is everywhere.. CU gun cartridges in hands 10:09:30 COMM: Discarded gun cartridges.. Snares, traps, litter the countryside.. MS ranger pulls up snare from ground 10:09:33 10:09:36 MUSIC OUT COMM: But catching people in the act is a different matter and when they first started, they didn’t even have any powers of arrest. MS ranger sat in jeep, two rangers standing to right 10:09:38 10:09:44 STEVE (V/O) In order to give the kind of power that Inspect Tiger needed to go out and.. MS Steve sat left of window, face to cam 10:09:48 (SYNC) ..investigate and arrest people without having to call up the police or going some round about way, we had to get them state inspector status.. CU badge 10:09:55 (V/O) So they could carry a badge around they could carry their own gun, they were essentially environmental cops. MS Steve left, ranger centre and right pic 10:09:57 CU gun 10:10:00 10:10:01 STEVE (V/O) It did strike a lot of people at the time as being a bit extreme.. MS Steve sat left of window, face to cam 10:10:04 (SYNC) But that’s what we had to do, it was either do that or lose the tiger. MCU ranger, object in hand 10:10:10 MCU Steve, side profile ranger right pic 10:10:11 10:10:13 RANGER (SUBTITLE) ‘did you hear that?’ CU ranger in hat 10:10:15 MCU Steve right pic, two rangers in b/ground, woman left pic 10:10:18 MUSIC IN STEVE (SYNC) They thought they heard a gunshot.. MWS Andrei gets into jeep 10:10:20 Motorcycle rolls of ramp 10:10:26 MWS jeep drives off 10:10:27 CU starting up motorbike 10:10:29 MCU Andre at wheel of jeep 10:10:31 MWS ranger riding motorbike 10:10:32 MCU Andre and Steve in jeep, backs to cam 10:10:34 MWS motorbike rides across train track 10:10:36 CU steering wheel 10:10:39 T/D from corner of jeep.. 10:10:41 MS rangers on road at back of jeep 10:10:43 MCU rangers looking across landscape 10:10:48 10:10:49 RANGER (SUBTITLE) ‘I think I glimpsed a black cap.. in the clearing over there’ CU gun in hands 10:10:54 MCU man P/R man runs through long grass.. 10:10:56 10:10:58 RANGER (SUBTITLE) ‘lets go, lets go..’ MCU Steve, back to cam 10:11:00 SERIES of shots – rangers closing in on poachers in woodland 10:11:02 MS rangers and poachers standing in forest 10:11:10 10:11:13 COMM: In the middle of some woods the patrol catches three poachers red handed. MS group walking in forest, backs to cam 10:11:16 One of then is armed. They’ve clearly been out hunting for several days. 10:11:21 MUSIC OUT CU animal skin in Steve’s hands 10:11:23 STEVE (SYNC) This was just like lying on the ground and it looks like they just put it out recently. MCU Steve P/B to MS man and Steve, woman to right pic 10:11:28 10:11:29 RANGER (SUBTITLE): ‘Its not fresh, its not today’s.. Its about two days old, its starting to smell’ 10:11:37 STEVE (SUBTITLE) Was it this group? 10:11:40 RANGER (SUBTITLE) ‘maybe.. buts its not today’s..’ MS poachers sitting smoking 10:11:45 10:11:46 COMM: The poachers don’t seem bothered about being arrested, like many Russians they don’t think there’s anything wrong with illegal hunting, it’s a way of life out here. MWS poachers and rangers walk to left pic 10:11:53 10:11:57 COMM: And although they may have only been hunting deer.. CU back of man’s head P/R to MCU men getting into jeep 10:12:00 To Inspection Tiger it still matters. Deer is popular prey with tigers, so killing them threatens the tigers’ survival. MWS jeep and motorbike on trailer on road 10:12:07 MS Steve and ranger standing at back of jeep 10:12:14 MCU two rangers sat at desk P/R to two poachers sat on sofa 10:12:16 10:12:19 COMM: The hunters were taken to a local police station, they were fined just $30 each and had their unlicensed rifle confiscated. MS man in black hat emptying bag 10:12:24 10:12:26 COMM: It turned out they were soldiers from a nearby base, one of them an officer.. Rifle on table 10:12:27 MS men with guns 10:12:30 COMM: Even the mighty red army has fallen on hard times. MS Andrei Yurchenko, face to cam, jeep in b/ground 10:12:36 CAPTION: bottom left ‘Andrei Yurchenko, Inspection Tiger’ 10:12:37 ANDREI (SYNC) I would say there are two kinds of poachers. The first are those who for some reason have to hunt for the meat to provide themselves and their families.. MWS Andrei walks towards cam, rangers with motorbike on road b/ground 10:12:43 MS Andrei, face to cam 10:12:53 ANDREI (SYNC) The second category are people who have some degree of power and are hunting just to prove their superiority to themselves and others.. BCU tiger’s eyes 10:13:07 10:13:08 MUSIC IN (V/O) These people in my view are the bigger danger because they don’t discriminate in what they are killing, we fight them as best we can.. MWS men with jeep and motorbike in forest 10:13:21 MUSIC OUT MCU ranger putting on jacket 10:13:23 10:13:24 COMM: Getting convictions against these poachers isn’t easy. Out in the wild without witnesses, its very difficult to provide hard evidence. MCU ranger f/ground right pic, men in b/ground 10:13:27 CU ranger with cigarette in mouth puts on hat 10:13:29 10:13:31 COMM: So now the patrol is kitted out with cameras.. MS two rangers standing either side of motorbike 10:13:33 MCU man with camera 10:13:34 VIDEO FOOTAGE – Andrei questioning Russian suspects (identities hidden) 10:13:36 10:13:38 COMM: This footage was taken when Andrei stopped a couple of well heeled businessmen out in the city of Vladivostok on a vodka fuelled hunting weekend.. 10:13:47 ANDREI (SUBTITLE) ‘Senior State Inspector Yurchenko, very pleased to meet you, can I see the papers for your weapons..’ 10:13:52 CAPTION: bottom pic ‘what weapons?’ 10:13:55 RUSSIAN (SUBTITLE) ‘I’ve shown you my papers’ 10:13:57 RUSSIAN (SUBTITLE) ‘so what, I have the right to..’ 10:13:59 ANDREI (SUBTITLE) ‘no you don’t, I have the right to check your vehicle’ 10:14:01 RUSSIAN (SUBTITLE) ‘No’ 10:14:03 ANDREI (SUBTITLE) ‘I’m warning you’ 10:14:04 ANDREI (SUBTITLE) ‘I have the right to use force’ 10:14:06 RUSSIAN (SUBT) ‘Easy, easy, easy’ 10:14:10 ANDREI (SUBT): ‘What’s this then?’ 10:14:11 RUSSIAN (SUBT) ‘Dunno, it’s a crowbar’ 10:14:14 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘This is part of a weapon.. give me your weapons licence’ 10:14:17 RUSSIAN (SUBT) It’s a crowbar.. 10:14:18 COMM: Mix vodka with guns and the team can often find themselves in real danger. MS Steve sat left of window, face to cam 10:14:23 10:14:26 STEVE (SYNC) The majority of poachers they catch are out in the forest with rifles shooting animals so that rifle could easily be turned on a ranger who’s trying to stop them. And yes they’ve caught people with rifles, with the bullets in the rifles and they’ve had a few erm, scuffles.. VIDEO FOOTAGE – Andrei with suspects next to car – scuffle breaks out 10:14:40 ANDREI (SUBT) Look at the state of your wheels mate.. 10:14:46 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘Show me your guns’ 10:14:48 RUSSIAN (SUBT) ‘what guns’ 10:14:49 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘What do you mean what guns’ 10:14:58 RUSSIAN (SUBT) ‘Fuck you, you ass’ 10:15:00 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘Give me the gas’ 10:15:02 RUSSIAN (SUBT) ‘You’re gonna get it!’ 10:15:09 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘handcuff him quick!’ 10:15:12 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘Attention!’ 10:15:13 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘I’m warning you!’ 10:15:15 ? (SUBT) ‘I’ll use my gun!’ 10:15:18 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘Handcuff him quick!’ 10:15:19 STEVE (V/O) Luckily, Inspection Tiger, the whole time its existed has never had to shoot anybody.. MS Steve sat left of window, face to cam 10:15:27 (SYNC) But we need to let the poacher know or the trafficker know that you and your buddies are armed, don’t try it. VIDEO FOOTAGE – Andrei with suspects 10:15:32 (V/O) If somebody had been shot it would certainly make it a problem.. MS Steve, sat left of window, face to cam 10:15:36 (SYNC) ..to continue raising money from certain donors who don’t want to be a part of something which people are getting shot or killed.. VIDEO FOOTAGE – Andrei with suspects 10:15:42 (V/O) Er it would probably put Inspection Tiger in hot water with the Russian government as well there’d be people saying get rid of these guys they’re dangerous.. MS Steve sat left of window, face to cam 10:15:50 (SYNC) Its really unnecessary for them to be getting so rough on people just because they’re hunting.. But that’s not really the case but one could easily make that case. MCU side profile ranger driving jeep 10:15:57 10:15:58 COMM: But Inspection Tiger’s job gets even more difficult when those who are supposed to enforce the law, are breaking it themselves. MS Steve, sat left of window, face to cam 10:16:07 STEVE (SYNC) And that can mean officials looking the other way, not prosecuting certain people because its not a big deal, or because they’re their friends.. Or to the very extreme cases of high level officials being involved in shooting and trading wildlife out here. View of road lit up with headlights shot through windscreen looking out 10:16:22 10:16:25 COMM: Late one night, Andrei Yurchenko’s team stopped a jeep driving in a nature reserve. CU side profile man driving jeep 10:16:27 MCU man gets out of jeep 10:16:31 10:16:32 COMM: This time the occupants didn’t argue, in fact they volunteered to show Andrei their rifles.. Illegal in a nature reserve.. SERIES of shots – men stopped in nature reserve with rifles 10:16:36 10:16:42 COMM: These men weren’t bothered about the law, for one good reason.. they were the law. Officials from the procurators office who knew perfectly well that Andrei could do nothing. MWS ranger carrying branches drops them in pile 10:16:55 10:17:01 COMM: A combination of low pay and the money to be made from poaching, leads politicians, police and even rangers into temptation.. MWS jeeps parked outside building in distance 10:17:05 MCU Andrei, face to cam 10:17:11 ANDREI (SYNC) Every time you catch a poacher, there are always offers to let him go in exchange for money and not everybody is strong enough to resist. MWS ranger knelt by fire 10:17:22 10:17:24 COMM: So that his rangers aren’t tempted, Andrei subsidises his teams wages from his own pocket. MS Andrei 10:17:30 MWS Rangers standing around fire 10:17:33 10:17:35 COMM: Although officially they work for the government, they get less than £50 a week and that’s largely funded by charity. MWS Rangers standing around fire 10:17:37 T/U from legs to MCU Sergei Bereznuk 10:17:43 10:17:46 COMM: Steve Galster’s colleague Sergei Bereznuk, heads the local wildlife organisation Phoenix, and is in charge of fund raising. MS statue of man 10:17:58 MWS Sergei walking over bridge 10:18:00 COMM: He’s going west, 9,000 miles, to the other end of the trans- Siberian railway to where the money is. 10:18:02 MUSIC IN H/A MWS train station 10:18:05 MWS Palatial buildings lit up at night 10:18:09 MWS Moscow lit up at night 10:18:12 VIDEO footage of tigers 10:18:13 10:18:14 COMM: Here in Moscow, Amour tigers are as far from most minds as the Russian far east itself.. MWS video footage on large screen top right corner 10:18:18 MCU woman playing violin 10:18:20 CU side profile man playing cello 10:18:22 MWS group playing instruments 10:18:23 COMM: This annual fund raising gala is organised by a group of international conservation charities. MS group at fund raising gala 10:18:25 MCU Sergei 10:18:28 SERIES of shots - group at fund raising gala 10:18:30 10:18:31 MUSIC OUT COMM: In the upheavals of post communist Russia, the problems of Russia’s wildlife are low on the list of priorities. 10:18:39 SHARON MILLER (V/O) A lot of Russian people think that there are lots and lots of amur tigers and leopards.. MCU Sharon Miller, face to cam CAPTION: bottom left ‘Sharon Miller, Director AMUR Fund’ 10:18:45 (SYNC) They don’t realise just how critically endangered they are, once they know, they want to help. CU T-Shirt T/U to people sitting in line at table.. 10:18:50 10:18:51 (V/O) The second problem is there are no mechanisms really for them to help, charity is a new concept in Russia and so the mechanisms that we are used to in, in perhaps western countries for people to help i.e. give money or.. MS woman standing behind table left, people standing to right 10:18:56 CU tiger print on T-Shirt 10:18:58 CU dollars in hands 10:19:03 MCU Sharon, face to cam 10:19:05 (SYNC) ..or volunteer that sort of thing, are just not in place yet in Russia, people are not used to doing that. CU framed picture, commentator with microphone walks past f/ground 10:19:10 10:19:14 COMM: Most of the money comes from foreign donors and sponsors.. MS audience sat in chairs 10:19:16 10:19:18 COMM: Russia’s richest businessmen known as Oligarchs who make billions from the country’s natural resources, have been slow to put money back into nature. MCU compare holding framed picture 10:19:22 MWS people sitting in audience at auction 10:19:28 10:19:30 SHARON MILLER (V/O) The other problem that we face is corporate donations from Russian companies.. MCU Sharon, face to cam 10:19:34 (SYNC) We don’t have any.. as yet. MS compare on stage, man holding framed picture behind 10:19:36 COMPARE (SYNC) Sold to (indistinct) for $300.. MCU people clapping in audience 10:19:42 MWS people sitting around stage at auction 10:19:43 MCU Sergei 10:19:46 WS view over town, smoke f/ground 10:19:49 10:19:52 COMM: And back in Slavyanka, tiger conservation is very low on the political list of priorities. MWS blocks of flats 10:19:54 MS man hanging clothes over balcony 10:19:56 MWS two children standing to left pic behind skips 10:19:59 CU Sergei, face to cam CAPTION: bottom left ‘Sergei Bereznuk, Director Inspection Tiger’ 10:19:59 10:20:02 SERGEI BEREZNUK (SYNC) Its hard for us to convince people in charge that our nature conservation projects which don’t make money are worthwhile, for a start, they want commission.. MWS man walking to jeep 10:20:10 10:20:11 SERGEI (V/O) But we tell then that they won’t get any money directly from our project, but thanks to this project.. CU Sergei, face to cam 10:20:17 (SYNC) We’ll be able to preserve tigers and leopards for future generations.. MWS sea in b/ground, tall grasses f/ground 10:20:22 (V/O) And people from all over the world will be able to come and see how these places are preserved.. MWS landscape, sun in sky top right 10:20:27 Then in the future its very possible that the local economy will benefit from tourism. MCU two rangers in jeep, backs to cam, view of road through windscreen looking out 10:20:37 10:20:38 COMM: In Slavyanka, local people are more concerned with their survival, not some future tourist industry. MS rangers talking to man standing at edge of forest 10:20:46 COMM: Another day on patrol, and the Inspection Tiger team stop a man they suspect of illegal logging. MCU man and ranger 10:20:54 10:20:55 COMM: This man has a licence. CU licence 10:20:57 But illegal logging is a serious problem, and thousands of hectares of forest that are cut down.. CU log 10:20:59 CU log in ranger’s hands 10:21:00 WS view over town, burning grass f/ground 10:21:03 Burning landscape 10:21:07 10:21:08 COMM: Fires too have ravaged the tiger’s habitat, they’re now so common that often no-one even bothers to put them out. P/L from burning landscape to three men on motorbike and sidecar 10:21:10 Burning landscape 10:21:16 10:21:17 COMM: This destruction to the tiger’s environment is killing it as much as the guns and snares. 10:21:21 MUSIC IN MS tiger in forest 10:21:23 MS Sergei Illyich walking through forest 10:21:29 10:21:31 MUSIC OUT 10:21:32 COMM: Sergei Illyich is in charge of protecting nature, he’s been an official state forester for more than 20 years. MS Sergei Illyich with binoculars walking through grassland 10:21:36 CU Sergei looking through binoculars 10:21:42 10:21:43 SERGEI ILLYICJ (SYNC) In almost 21,000 hectares, there are three tigers living permanently.. One big one about 8, 10 years old, and the other two are five years old. Slow P/R WS landscape, sea b/ground 10:21:46 MS Sergei standing looking through binoculars 10:21:59 10:22:00 COMM: But even Sergei admits to doing a little poaching on the side. CU Sergei, face to cam 10:22:04 SERGEI (SYNC) Sure they catch me, Inspection Tiger caught me once, I paid a fine of 3,000 roubles and everything was okay.. Well what can you do.. Flock of birds in sky 10:22:15 We foresters are not given hunting licences.. CU Sergei, face to cam 10:22:17 I’ve never shot a tiger, but I’ve seen tigers a lot, when the snow falls you can see where they walk, when there is snow you can see everything.. MS Sergei walking towards parked jeep, back to cam 10:22:29 COMM: Despite Sergei’s track record, Inspection Tiger often turns a blind eye to the game keeper turned poacher because he more than anyone knows what goes on, on his patch. MWS jeep driving through forest 10:22:39 MUSIC IN MCU side profile Sergei driving jeep 10:22:43 COMM: Sergei is leading the patrol deep into the restricted zone on the Chinese border.. MWS jeep driving through forest 10:22:46 MWS rangers at river’s edge in forest 10:22:48 10:22:49 COMM: He shows them where poachers have been poisoning the river to catch frogs and fish. 10:22:49 MS Sergei standing pointing next to river 10:22:55 MWS dead frogs floating in water 10:22:56 10:22:57 SERGEI (SUBT) ‘There’ MWS Sergei standing next to river 10:22:59 MUSIC OUT SERGEI (SUBT) And there are more over there.. MWS dead frog floating in water 10:23:01 COMM: Sergei thinks he knows who is responsible. CU side profile Sergei 10:23:04 RANGER (SUBT) The Chinese poisoned them? 10:23:09 MUSIC IN H/A MWS rangers walking through forest 10:23:10 10:23:11 COMM: But this is not the only thing that Sergei has brought the patrol to see.. CU rope tied around tree trunk 10:23:15 MS ranger 10:23:16 10:23:17 COMM: Accompanied by border guards he leads them to a far more gruesome discovery.. MS ranger with camera left pic ranger standing b/ground next to dead tiger 10:23:19 T/D body of dead tiger 10:23:23 COMM: An amur tigress caught in a snare.. She’s been dead for about two weeks. The snare that killed her is one of 15 they find along the border. Ranger crouches down next to body of tiger 10:23:29 10:23:34 MUSIC OUT RANGER (SUBT) ‘It looks like someone’s pulled out its incisor tooth’ 10:23:37 COMM: Its not clear why the valuable body and skin has been left to decompose.. MWS rangers in forest, drag body of tiger 10:23:41 But perhaps the poachers were disturbed by border guards CU Andrei, face to cam 10:23:45 10:23:50 ANDREI (SYNC) I must say the Chinese poachers make very sophisticated snares, snares, traps and auto shooting devices.. MWS two rangers carrying tiger’s corpse 10:23:57 (V/O) The border guards are risking their lives when patrolling this area, there have been instances when they have also been caught in these snares. I say again, they’re risking their lives. CU Andrei, face to cam 10:24:08 CU corpse of tiger 10:24:10 MUSIC IN MWS ranger walks up to grave in forest 10:24:14 10:24:15 COMM: Here, the battle to preserve wildlife has had deadly consequences.. CU star on top of shrine 10:24:22 MWS Andrei standing next to shrine in forest 10:24:24 10:24:25 ANDREI (SYNC) There were some Chinese poachers and hunters looking for frogs.. MCU Andrei 10:24:30 There was a fight and Sergei was killed. CU inscription on shrine 10:24:33 10:24:35 I don’t know what happened to the Chinese if they were caught or not.. MCU Andrei 10:24:40 They say that the Chinese were caught later, put to death but I don’t know.. BCU tiger’s eyes 10:24:48 MWS rangers wrap up tiger’s corpse 10:24:54 10:24:55 COMM: Until today, Andrei believed there were 18 tigers in his area.. MCU Andrei 10:25:00 MS rangers carrying tiger’s body 10:25:02 MWS rangers carrying tiger’s body through forest 10:25:04 10:25:06 STEVE (V/O) On its face one tiger poached here or these doesn’t look like a big deal but when you start taking a look at what’s really going on there is a lot of tigers being pulled out of the natural environment, forever. WS view landscape, horizon.. 10:25:18 MUSIC OUT 10:25:21 COMM: But targeting the poachers alone can never solve the problem, they are only the first link in a chain.. View of Inspection Tiger building 10:25:25 MCU two men fixing engine of truck 10:25:29 COMM: Inspection Tiger is starting to investigate the middle men who buy the dead animals from the hunters and sell them into the international market.. MS man working on truck 10:25:33 MWS team in office 10:25:36 COMM: And today they’ve had a breakthrough. CU Steve 10:25:40 10:25:41 ANDREI (SYNC) We have information about someone who wants to buy a tiger skin.. CU side profile Sergei 10:25:45 10:25:46 ANDREI (SYNC) He has relatives in South Korea. MCU Andrei 10:25:51 STEVE (SYNC) What’s this Korean guy doing here? 10:25:53 ANDREI (SYNC) He’s got a farm here and he’s also dealing in illegal marine life and selling them on to China.. MCU Steve 10:26:00 MCU Andrei 10:26:02 ANDREI (SYNC) We plan to tell the Korean about the tiger skin then arrange a meeting to sell it to him. CU side profile two rangers 10:26:06 CU Steve 10:26:14 MS rangers sorting out equipment 10:26:19 MUSIC IN COMM: For Andrei and his team this is a big moment, they’ve decided for the first time to mount an undercover operation to catch the local buyer and his contacts. CU video camera 10:26:26 CU zipping up bag 10:26:28 10:26:30 COMM: The first stage is to send in an undercover investigator with a secret camera posing as a poacher with a skin to sell. CU video camera 10:26:32 WS landscape, sun setting in distance 10:26:37 WS landscape 10:26:41 COMM: It’s a nervous wait for the footage to come back. MS ranger walks through door carrying camera in bag into room with team 10:26:45 MUSIC OUT 10:26:47 ANDREI (SUBT) How did it go? 10:26:49 RANGER (SUBT) Everything’s okay.. CU video camera 10:26:51 10:26:52 COMM: The next day one of the team has collected the tape from the undercover investigator.. MS team sat to left of room 10:26:55 VIDEO FOOTAGE from hidden camera CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:26:57 MS team with backs to cam watching video footage 10:27:00 VIDEO FOOTAGE from hidden camera – undercover ranger with dealer 10:27:02 10:27:03 COMM: The target nicknamed Lova, buys $300 worth of sea cucumbers, an endangered marine species sold for huge prices in China.. CU Andrei and Steve 10:27:13 COMM: Then the moment everyone’s waiting for, he asks about the tiger skin.. VIDEO FOOTAGE – from hidden camera – undercover ranger and dealer CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:27:15 10:27:19 LOVA (SUBT) And what about the other thing we talked about? 10:27:23 RANGER (SUBT) Lova, I have guys who want to sell.. 10:27:28 LOVA (SUBT) Is it good? 10:27:29 RANGER (SYNC) ‘Its got head, paws, everything’ 10:27:34 LOVA (SUBT) ‘I have to see it’ 10:27:36 LOVA (SUBT) ‘Look it over’ 10:27:38 RANGER (SUBT) ‘okay’ 10:27:40 RANGER (SUBT) ‘In a day or two okay?’ 10:27:42 LOVA (SUBT) ‘Great’ BCU Andrei left pic, CU Steve b/ground 10:27:46 CU side profile Sergei 10:27:49 MS Andrei and Steve 10:27:51 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘Ok, good. I’ll go and get the skin and bring it here’ CU Steve 10:27:54 STEVE (SYNC) Good luck. MWS truck pulls off from Inspection Tiger building 10:27:56 10:27:57 COMM: Now that Lova has confirmed he wants to buy the skin, stage two of the operation can begin. Andrei shakes tiger skin out of white sack 10:28:04 10:28:06 ANDREI (SYNC) Here we have a skin that is very convenient for our operation.. It was confiscated from a local parliamentary member.. MCU Andrei 10:28:18 CU tiger skin on floor 10:28:21 ANDREI (SYNC) There’s no doubt about it someone killed this tiger, why, because of the wounds in the skin.. MS Andrei, Steve and ranger with skin 10:28:31 STEVE (SYNC) What happened to this Duma officer, this parliamentary officer? T/U from tiger skin to CU Andrei 10:28:35 ANDREI (SYNC) According to our law he is immune from prosecution. We punished him by making him pay a fine of $50, which is the maximum we could fine him. MS Andrei, Steve and ranger with tiger skin 10:28:48 STEVE (SYNC) Is he still in office? 10:28:50 ANDREI (SYNC) Of course.. CU tiger’s head in Andrei’s hands 10:28:54 ANDREI (SYNC) Its very convenient for us because of its head, we’ve confiscated lots of tiger skins but only two had heads. CU drilling tiger’s head 10:29:02 L/A MS Andrei with drill 10:29:05 Small transmitter in CU hands 10:29:07 COMM: The tiger’s head is very convenient because its very easy to conceal this tiny radio transmitter.. Small transmitter in CU hand 10:29:11 CU hiding transmitter in tiger’s head 10:29:13 COMM: In this way Andrei hopes to track the skin and see where it goes, and how it gets out of the country. MS Andrei and ranger with skin 10:29:17 CU stitching tiger skin 10:29:19 10:29:20 STEVE (V/O) This is the thing, we’ve never followed the tiger all the way to the buyer and seen exactly what they’re doing with it.. MS ranger sat next to skin, transmitter on chair 10:29:23 10:29:26 STEVE (SYNC) Most people are just assuming that this is all going into China, this is really important for us to figure out. MCU ranger with transmitter 10:29:28 CU transmitter 10:29:31 MWS view of town 10:29:34 MUSIC IN MWS car driving along track 10:29:37 10:29:39 COMM: The undercover investigator arranges to meet Lova at his farm on the outskirts of Slavyanka.. MWS view over houses in town 10:29:41 VIDEO FOOTAGE from hidden camera – Lova and ranger walk into building, inspects tiger skin.. hands over cash.. CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:29:44 10:29:46 COMM: Naturally Lova wants to have a good look at the skin before he buys. 10:29:53 COMM: But will he notice the tiger’s head had been tampered with.. 10:30:02 COMM: Lova looks out of the window to check that no-one is watching, oblivious to the secret camera. 10:30:06 MUSIC OUT 10:30:17 RANGER (SUBT) ‘Look at the paws. 10:30:19 (SUBT) ‘Look at the fur’ 10:30:22 (SUBT) ‘Look its got claws and everything’ 10:30:26 COMM: There’s an anxious moment while Lova looks at the head. 10:30:33 LOVA (SUBT) ‘Great’ 10:30:36 RANGER (SUBT) ‘Lova the guys want to know about the future..’ 10:30:41 LOVA (SUBT) ‘What about?’ 10:30:42 RANGER (SUBT) ‘About skins’ 10:30:44 LOVA (SUBT) ‘Well lets see, who knows, I’m not sure yet’ 10:30:48 LOVA (SUBT) ‘How much did you say, one and a half?’ 10:30:51 RANGER (SUBT) ‘Yes’ 10:30:53 LOVA (SUBT) ‘Well I’ll give it a go first time and see what happens..’ 10:31:06 COMM: $1,500 is a lot to pay, a third of the average annual salary in Slavyanka, but if Lova finds the right buyer it will be worth the risk. 10:31:18 STEVE (V/O) In the Middle East for example you can get, you get can ten thousand to fifteen thousand US dollars for one tiger skin.. MS Steve sat left of window, face to cam 10:31:25 (SYNC) You roll it up put it in your suitcase take it out of the country, its easy to smuggle it out, what kind of a profit margin is that I don’t even know I can’t calculate but its, its pretty good. MWS car parked at side of road, building in b/ground 10:31:35 MUSIC IN 10:31:41 COMM: Time is now critical, the batteries in the tracking device will only last for seven days.. MCU ranger sat in car window with gun 10:31:45 MWS view over town 10:31:48 COMM: And it has a range of just ten miles.. MWS cars parked outside building slow Z/I to window 10:31:51 10:31:52 COMM: So Andrei is hoping that Lova plans to take the skin to a nearby ferry port. If he does, they want to find out if anyone is colluding with Lova and his smuggling activities. MCU Andrei left, Steve right, looking at map 10:32:04 10:32:09 MUSIC OUT ANDREI (SYNC) We want to try to use the tracker to follow the tiger skin from Slavyanka to the port.. If the skin goes here then our aim in a joint operation with the federal security agents.. CU map 10:32:16 MCU Andrei left, Steve right, looking at map 10:32:20 10:32:21 ANDREI (SYNC) ..will be to find out who the accomplice in the administration at the port or on the boat crew.. CU side profile Steve 10:32:26 CU map MCU Andrei left, Steve right, looking at map 10:32:28 10:32:31 ANDREI (SYNC) If the skin goes up here to Usserisk, we are at risk of losing the tiger skin because we can’t track it for a long distance. 10:32:39 MUSIC IN MWS ship at sea, shore b/ground 10:32:40 MWS crane at port 10:32:45 MWS crane in port, sea b/ground 10:32:47 WS port CAPTION: bottom pic ‘Zarubino Port’ 10:32:50 MWS cars on road 10:32:53 COMM: It’s the day of the ferry’s departure.. MWS white car parked 10:32:56 Andrei and his team wait to hear whether Lova is on the move with the skin. CU dials in car 10:32:58 CU hand on steering wheel 10:32:59 MWS white car facing cam 10:33:02 ANDREI (SUBT) Everything ok? L/A MCU Andrei on walkie talkie in car 10:33:04 10:33:05 RANGER (SUBT) We’re standing by. 10:33:06 COMM: Andrei is staking a lot on this operation, he can’t afford to lose the skin, its too valuable.. if he does, he may be obliged to resign. MWS landscape, parked white car 10:33:09 MCU side profile Andrei in car 10:33:12 H/A WS view over cars parked at port 10:33:15 10:33:17 COMM: Waiting at the port entrance, Andrei’s partners in the operation signal they’re also in position. MWS cars parked, small building to right 10:33:19 10:33:23 COMM: They’re agents from the FSB, successors to the KGB.. MCU Andrei in car 10:33:28 Andrei cannot run such an operation without their involvement. White car parked in distance, concrete blocks f/ground 10:33:31 10:33:33 COMM: Then, Andrei gets the call.. Lova had left his farm and the tracker indicates he’s got the skin with him. H/A WS cars on road in distance, tree f/ground 10:33:37 Window of white car b/ground, ‘object’ f/ground 10:33:41 L/A MCU side profile man in car 10:33:44 RANGER (SUBT) ‘Ok Andrei, you can relax now, he’s on the move’ 10:33:47 ANDREI (SUBT) This is it.. MWS white car parked on waste ground 10:33:48 L/A MCU side profile man in car 10:33:51 MWS van driving along road CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:33:54 CAPTION: ‘That’s not him, its an old model’ 10:33:56 RANGER (SUBT) That’s not him, its an old model.. L/A MCU side profile man in car 10:33:58 Fast P/L, van driving along road CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:34:01 10:34:04 RANGER (SUBT) That’s Lova.. L/A MCU side profile man starts up car 10:34:09 MWS van driving along road CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:34:11 10:34:14 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘Hello Yur, he’s taken the Zarubino turn-off’ L/A MCU side profile Andrei on walkie talkie driving car 10:34:17 ANDREI (SUBT) He’ll be with you in 3 or 4 minutes.. View of road shot from inside windscreen looking out CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:34:19 10:34:22 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘Hello can you hear me?’ 10:34:24 RANGER (SUBT) ‘Yes’ 10:34:27 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘We’ve got him in our sights’ 10:34:30 ANDREI (SUBT) ‘He’s above the port’ MWS cars parked, small building to right 10:34:35 RANGER (SUBT) Understood, thank you’ MWS cars parked in car park T/U Z/I to van driving along road 10:34:39 RANGER (SUBT) Check it now you should be able to hear it.. 10:34:44 RANGER (SUBT) There he is! L/A MCU Andrei in car walkie talkie in hand 10:34:46 10:34:47 ANDREI (SUBT) Okay lets go.. MWS van drives past parked cars CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:34:49 10:34:50 RANGER (SUBT) There he is! MWS man walking up hill to car 10:34:52 MS man walking to car shot from inside windscreen looking out 10:34:55 Z/I to van CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:34:56 CU man’s shoulder 10:34:59 10:35:00 RANGER (SUBT) He turned off over there.. MWS van drives into shot from left CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:35:02 10:35:03 RANGER (SUBT) ‘Take it easy, let him get a bit further ahead’ 10:35:07 RANGER (SUBT) ‘Then follow him slowly’ H/A van CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:35:10 CU walkie talkie in man’s hand left of CU man 10:35:14 RANGER (SUBT) Zhenya, be careful you don’t get too close’ Z/I to Lova walking past van CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:35:18 10:35:25 RANGER (SUBT) Is he alone? 10:35:26 RANGER (SUBT) So far.. MCU side profile man with walkie talkie 10:35:27 MWS Lova next to van CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:35:30 10:35:31 10:35:33 MUSIC OUT COMM: Lova seems suspicious and looks towards the FSB car where one of three secret cameras is concealed. MWS Lova walking away from van CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:35:38 10:35:40 RANGER (SUBT) Terminal, terminal, he’s got out and he’s going into the terminal..’ BCU side profile Andrei 10:35:44 ANDREI (SUBT) Are you sending anyone in there yet? CAPTION: ‘Not yet’ 10:35:47 RANGER (SUBT) Not yet.. MS Lova walking into terminal CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:35:48 10:35:49 RANGER (SUBT) We’re going to wait for him at the exit.. 10:35:51 RANGER (SUBT) He’s got nothing he’s empty handed.. BCU side profile Andrei 10:35:54 ANDREI (SUBT) Understood. MWS Z/I to people outside port entrance, cars, coaches parked CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:35:56 MUSIC IN COMM: Its not going to plan, Lova has entered the terminal without the skin. CU side profile man 10:35:59 FOOTAGE from hidden camera CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:36:02 10:36:05 COMM: The FSB men decide to move in on the van.. 10:36:12 RANGER (SUBT) Whose bag is this? 10:36:13 ACCOMPLICE (SUBT) Its mine. 10:36:14 COMM: Lova’s accomplice is another Korean. 10:36:16 ACCOMPLICE (SUBT) What are you touching it for, leave it alone.. 10:36:18 COMM: He has a ferry ticket to Korea, a visa, and the tiger skin in a sports bag. 10:36:23 RANGER (SUBT) That’s it, lets go.. MCU man with walkie talkie 10:36:27 10:36:28 RANGER (SUBT) Got them, they’re ours. 10:36:29 ANDREI (SUBT) Great, well done. H/A WS over town 10:36:31 MUSIC OUT MWS Andrei walking along corridor holding tiger skin 10:36:35 COMM: It’s a mixed result for Andrei, with two arrests and the skin safely back, the won’t have to resign. He also knows that Korea was the skin’s destination. Lova’s accomplice had his visa revoked and the ferry ticket confiscated.. VIDEO FOOTAGE - MCU Lova – slo-mo 10:36:50 But the FSB released Lova himself after three hours and he still hasn’t been prosecuted. 10:36:57 COMM: There are rumours that they plan to use Lova in a bid to catch even bigger tiger traders.. but as yet Andrei hasn’t been informed. MS Andrei walks past pictures of tigers on wall 10:36:59 MS Andrei walks into dark store room 10:37:05 10:37:06 ANDREI (V/O) I never get disappointed because every time we catch a poacher we’re flexing our muscles.. Two tiger skins hanging on wall 10:37:10 MCU Andrei hangs up tiger skin on wall 10:37:16 ANDREI (V/O) We’re waiting for the day when the Russian government understands they have to toughen up the measures and punishments against the slaughter of tigers and leopards. Light turns off 10:37:31 MUSIC IN BCU tiger’s eyes 10:37:33 BCU woman’s eyes 10:37:38 MCU woman dancing 10:37:39 MWS group dancing 10:37:41 Stall on pavement below road ? CAPTION: bottom pic ‘Bangkok, Thailand’ 10:37:43 Statue MCU ‘tiger beer’ t-shirt 10:37:47 10:37:48 COMM: While Inspection Tiger carries on the fight, Steve Galster and Wildaid have learnt from Russia, and taken their hard line conservation techniques to south- east Asia, another soft spot for illegal wildlife traders. ? 10:37:49 View of road shot from inside windscreen moving car looking out 10:37:50 MCU Steve Galster 10:37:53 View of buildings shot from window of moving car looking out 10:37:55 BCU Steve’s eyes 10:37:58 MCU Steve ‘Tiger Balm’ sign shot from inside window of moving car looking out 10:38:01 10:38:04 STEVE (V/O) I first came to Thailand because traffickers what they’ll do internationally is target so called protected areas.. MWS van driving along road towards cam 10:38:09 (V/O) Which are mostly protected only on paper because people are just going to walk in. Group of rangers walking through forest 10:38:14 MUSIC OUT 10:38:15 STEVE (SYNC) These don’t have fences or walls around it, that’s where most of the wildlife is, that’s where your tigers are. 10:38:23 COMM: These rangers are patrolling Khao Yai national park a protected area just two hours from Bangkok.. CU tying camera to tree trunk 10:38:28 10:38:30 COMM: Until recently the Thais had thought their tigers were thriving. MS ranger fixing camera to tree 10:38:32 MCU ranger 10:38:33 CU camera on tree trunk 10:38:35 10:38:36 COMM: But detailed surveys yielded some disturbing results. MWS rangers in forest 10:38:39 MUSIC IN BCU camera lens – flashes 10:38:44 STILL – tiger at night 10:38:45 BCU camera lens – flashes 10:38:47 STILL – MCU tiger at night 10:38:48 BCU camera lens – flashes 10:38:49 STILL - MS tiger at night 10:38:50 COMM: Only a handful of tigers remained, and the reason was clear.. BCU camera lens – flashes 10:38:54 STILL – forest 10:38:55 BCU camera lens - flashes 10:38:56 STILL – man with bag on back in forest 10:38:57 COMM: Poachers. BCU camera lens – flashes 10:38:57 STILL - poacher? 10:38:58 CU L/A backs of legs, walking through forest 10:39:00 MUSIC OUT COMM: In one year alone up to 500 poachers at a time in the park.. L/A MWS rangers walking through forest 10:39:07 COMM: But it took a human tragedy to finally spur the Thai government into action. MS rangers walking through forest 10:39:11 10:39:13 STEVE (V/O) Just before we started the project in Kowhai.. MS Steve, face to cam 10:39:16 (SYNC) ..we had an incident in which a group of villagers about ten of them, came into the forest to collect some aloha, they were hunting as well.. CU leaves 10:39:21 MUSIC IN MS rangers, backs to cam, walking through forest 10:39:23 (V/O) There was a group of Khao Yai rangers out patrolling and it was fairly late in the day.. CU ranger 10:39:26 MS rangers in forest 10:39:28 (V/O) The rangers tried sneaking up on them, unfortunately one of the rangers who had not undergone out safety training.. T/D gun 10:39:31 MS Steve, face to cam 10:39:35 STEVE (SYNC) ..very bravely er tried approaching the group and catching them.. Z/I P/F P/L in forest 10:39:38 10:39:40 COMM: On the patrol that day was (indistinct name) L/A MCU ranger with gun walking through forest 10:39:42 10:39:44 THAI RANGER (V/O) During the ambush we didn’t know that the poachers were armed.. MCU Ranger, face to cam 10:39:52 (SYNC) We charged in and surrounded them, one poacher escaped and my friend went after him.. Cam pans around forest 10:39:58 MCU ranger, face to cam 10:40:01 10:40:04 MUSIC OUT RANGER (SYNC) The man had an AK47. He shot at my friend and my friend died.. But before he died he fought back and the poacher was killed too. VIDEO FOOTAGE - MS rangers attending injured ranger in forest – poachers – helicopter.. 10:40:17 10:40:18 STEVE (V/O) I think that accelerated the Thai government and Wildaid to get the project, one of the things we were stressing to them was there was a lot of poaching going on in Khao Yai and erm a big part of our training course was making sure that the rangers were safe.. MS Steve, face to cam 10:40:34 (SYNC) I mean knowing how to carry their guns erm even wearing bullet proof vests in some cases, but taking the situation more seriously, that there’s real danger out there. MS two rangers in forest looking at tree trunk 10:40:45 COMM: Since Wildaid’s intervention the amount of poaching in Khao Yai has gone down dramatically. MWS rangers checking map in forest 10:40:48 CU ranger holding object 10:40:49 MWS group walking towards farm 10:40:51 10:40:54 COMM: Scores of poachers were caught, and Kuman was among them. MS Steve and Kuman walking in field 10:40:58 STEVE (V/O) Well we’ve got to be careful in that the people we catch, some of them are truly local poor villagers.. MS Steve, face to cam 10:41:04 (SYNC) Those people are not going to go to jail, alright.. We’re going to stop them and we’re going to try to get them into an alternative livelihood which is not an easy thing but we’re starting to do that. MS woman shovelling T/U to MS Kuman and Steve P/R to woman with shovel 10:41:13 COMM: In Khao Yai Wildaid fund a commune where villagers like Kuman who gave up poaching are offered an alternative. Locals learn how to farm and process organic vegetables. CU banging full plastic bag 10:41:23 10:41:24 COMM: They earn just £100 a month each, its regular income and they live without fear of arrest. CU side profile women 10:41:25 MS three women working 10:41:27 MS woman working cross legged 10:41:29 10:41:30 COMM: But despite the benefits its still proving hard to beat the tempting offers from wildlife dealers. CU man 10:41:32 CU hand written columns 10:41:34 MWS group sat on ground working 10:41:35 KUMAN (V/O) In this community there are 70 households and we have convinced 17 of those families to give up poaching for a new way of life.. MWS Kuman, knelt on ground, face to cam 10:41:46 10:41:47 KUMAN (SYNC) ..its not even half. The problem is even if I managed to persuade everybody I’m sure there wouldn’t be enough funds to support them all. MS Kuman and Steve walking past huts 10:41:58 COMM: Money never seems to be a problem for the traffickers who buy the skins to order from the villagers, but just like in Russia the dealers seem to enjoy political protection. MWS Kuman, knelt on ground, face to cam 10:42:10 10:42:13 KUMAN (SYNC) We never know who the actual buyer is. I suspect it is someone with a lot of power and influence. Anyone who can take tigers or other big animals out of the park must be someone in authority. It must be a government official, and that’s how it all works. 10:42:35 MUSIC IN T/U to BCU tiger 10:42:37 10:42:39 COMM: But the identities of the traffickers are sometimes well known. VIDEO FOOTAGE - P/L dead tiger 10:42:44 Just last year this tiger was found in the boot of a car near the Lao border.. It had been cut in half to make it fit. VIDEO FOOTAGE – dead tiger – police 10:42:50 10:42:56 COMM: The car belonged to a notorious dealer called Leuthai who’d been arrested several times before but had escaped serious punishment. CU identification paper 10:43:06 STEVE (V/O) He was a major dealer who was you know trading tigers across borders still out there operating.. VIDEO FOOTAGE – Police with dead tiger 10:43:10 10:43:13 STEVE (V/O) All he’s done is paid £80 fine and a suspended sentence.. MS Steve, face to cam 10:43:19 (SYNC) And this tells you what we’re up against.. H/A WS view over town 10:43:22 CAPTION: ‘Thai-Myanmar Border’ 10:43:24 10:43:26 STEVE (V/O) People have to understand that this isn’t just about you know just national parks and picnics.. MS Steve walking across road into border office 10:43:31 10:43:32 (V/O) This is a multi billion dollar global industry and the people who are involved are organised behind the scenes and they’re making a lot of money. 10:43:41 COMM: Steve believes that many of the tiger skins are shipped across the border to (indistinct) formerly called Burma. L/A busy street 10:43:47 MCU Steve walking past market stalls 10:43:49 10:43:50 COMM: Wearing a secret camera and posing as a major buyer he goes on the hunt for the men who trade in endangered species. Footage in market CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera 10:43:55 MCU Steve back to cam walking through market 10:43:58 COMM: Pretending to be tourists, the camera can follow him. Footage in market – on road CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera’ 10:44:03 MUSIC OUT 10:44:04 STEVE (V/O) It’s a fairly lawless land, these are criminal syndicates that will deal in anything. They’re selling sex CD’s, drugs, they’re selling people they’re selling wildlife, its all there. Cam T/U to tiger teeth 10:44:16 10:44:17 COMM: Within a few minutes Steve and even the crew are offered dozens tiger teeth and bones. CU tiger teeth in hand 10:44:20 MS P/L from couple to woman on stall 10:44:23 10:44:24 COMM: This trader claims she pulled the teeth out of a dead tiger herself. VIDEO FOOTAGE in market CAPTION: top left corner ‘hidden camera 10:44:29 COMM: But to get to the big dealers Steve had to find a guide. 10:44:35 STEVE (SYNC) What’s your name again? 10:44:36 SLIM (SUBT) Soe Tun 10:44:37 SLIM (SUBT) You can call me ‘Slim’ 10:44:40 SLIM (SUBT) That’s a nick name, like ‘Slim Shady’ 10:44:43 STEVE (SUBT) Alright Slim Shady, what can we buy here.. 10:44:47 STEVE (SUBT) What I’m interested really to tell you the truth.. 10:44:49 STEVE (SUBT) I want to buy a nice skin.. 10:44:51 SLIM (SUBT) Let me show you a good place where you can find a skin.. 10:44:56 STEVE (SUBT) What have we got here.. 10:45:01 SLIM (SUBT) What skull is this? 10:45:05 MARKET TRADER (SUBT) Bear skull. 10:45:09 SLIM (SUBT) What’s this? 10:45:12 TRADER (SUBT) Tiger organs. 10:45:17 STEVE (SUBT) It’s a tiger penis huh.. 10:45:20 STEVE (SYNC) You’ve got tiger penis, you’ve got the teeth you got the bear skull.. 10:45:24 COMM: Everything Steve is offered is banned under the (indistinct) convention which regulates the trade in endangered species. 10:45:32 STEVE (SYNC) Hi guys.. that’s a nice one but its not a tiger, anyway lets take a look.. Can you hold it up that’s better, I want to see how big it is.. 10:45:41 COMM: This is a clouded leopard skin.. yet another species on the critical list. 10:45:47 STEVE (SYNC) How tall is it? 10:45:48 SLIK (SUBT) ‘He’s got some more if you want to see it’ 10:45:51 SLIM (SUBT) ‘different shapes, lines, different patterns’ 10:45:54 STEVE (SUBT) ‘Alright slim shady, can they just take me and show me now..’ 10:45:57 STEVE (SUBT) ‘And I’ll bring the deposit’ 10:46:04 SLIM (SUBT) You can go with them. 10:46:09 COMM: Steve risks getting on the motorbike with no idea where he’s headed.. VIDEO FOOTAGE – with hidden camera – looking at skins in lock up with dealers 10:46:15 COMM: After a ten minute ride he’s taken to a lock up on the edge of town. 10:46:36 STEVE (SUBT) How many have we got here? 10:46:39 DEALER (SUBT) There’s 30 here. 10:46:42 STEVE (SUBT) You’ve got 30 here, wow, you’ve got more.. 10:46:46 DEALER (SUBT) There are about 80 altogether.. 10:46:49 DEALER (SUBT) There are some more outside.. 10:46:52 STEVE (SUBT) Are these fresh, are they new, old or what? 10:46:57 DEALER (SUBT) New ones.. 10:47:00 STEVE (SUBT) Wow, how many is that? 10:47:06 DEALER (SUBT) Ten pieces. 10:47:11 STEVE (SUBT) What is this, tiger? 10:47:13 DEALER (SUBT) This black tiger. 10:47:15 STEVE (SUBT) Oh the black panther yeah.. 10:47:18 COMM: The trader doesn’t differentiate between big cats, for him they’re all just tigers with different markings. 10:47:24 DEALER (SUBT) There’s a variety, you can choose whatever you want’ 10:47:28 DEALER (SUBT) Very few tourists.. 10:47:30 STEVE SUBT Want to buy these? 10:47:32 STEVE (SUBT): If they have so many who are they selling them to? 10:47:34 DEALER (SUBT): They just stock it.. 10:47:36 Like you someone who’s dealing, big dealer.. 10:47:39 Like a wholesaler who comes and picks it up.. 10:47:43 STEVE (SUBT) Are those usually Chinese? 10:47:46 DEALER (SUBT) Who are your regular buyers? 10:47:49 DEALER (SUBT) People from across the border. 10:47:52 DEALER (SUBT) Thai people.. 10:47:53 Thai business people. 10:47:56 STEVE (SYNC): Have you got any tiger skins in there? No I mean like you know a tiger has the stripe.. you got any? 10:48:04 DEALER (SUBT) Do you have any skins with stripes? 10:48:09 DEALER (SUBT) ‘Very expensive’ 10:48:13 STEVE (SUBT) Oh this is the big boss? 10:48:16 STEVE (SUBT) Bring the big boss here’ 10:48:20 STEVE (SUBT)) do you speak English, you do speak English yeah.. alright.. 10:48:24 STEVE (SUBT) So you understand I don’t want the hard one.. 10:48:28 STEVE (SUBT) I don’t want the one with the hole in it.. 10:48:31 And you’re telling me one in solution is about 8,000 baht? 10:48:38 STEVE (SUBT) And you can take it down the river and cross? 10:48:42 DEALER (SUBT) How many pieces? 10:48:44 STEVE (SUBT) Let me call you okay? 10:48:46 And then you are going to have to work with Slim Shady here alright.. 10:48:50 He’s going to be my partner on this, okay? 10:48:55 STEVE (SUBT) Just let me be clear, you got 80 pieces here right? 10:49:01 STEVE SUBTITLE: You have striped tiger? No more, finished.. 10:49:05 DEALER (SUBT) Very expensive. 10:49:08 DEALER (SUBT) About one hundred thousand baht.. 10:49:12 SLIM SHADY (SYNC) A hundred thousand baht.. yeah.. 10:49:14 STEVE (SYNC) For a tiger skin, wow.. but he doesn’t have any.. 10:49:18 SLIM ? (SUBT) Nobody has any.. 10:49:20 DEALER (SUBT) Four days ago I had one bit I’ve already sold it.. 10:49:26 We might get some more in but it will take time.. 10:49:29 Maybe we’ll get some in a month or so.. 10:49:34 COMM: After promising to get in touch, Steve crossed the border back into Thailand, stunned by what he’d discovered. MS Steve crossing border P/B to ‘Union of Myanmar’ sign above road 10:49:37 10:49:42 STEVE (V/O) I found guys who had 80 leopard skins for sale.. MCU Steve, face to cam 10:49:46 (SYNC) They didn’t have any tiger skins though, and I asked and they said nobody’s got tiger skins right now, its hard to find, its hard to find because there’s not very many tigers left in the forest. They’re so dear and so difficult to find they’re charging 30 times the price for a tiger skin as they are for a leopard skin. H/A MWS view over town 10:50:02 (V/O) That’s at the Thai/Burmese border so you can imagine the middle man.. MCU Steve, face to cam 10:50:05 (SYNC) ..this is like in Russia, the middle man comes across takes it to another place and will sell it for, you know upwards of a hundred, two hundred percent up, so they could sell it in Bangkok to a Chinese tourist for $5,000, 2.500 here it’s a good profit. H/A WS view over landscape – horizon 10:50:20 MUSIC IN 10:50:23 COMM: No-one knows exactly how many tigers are left in the wild.. WS view over landscape 10:50:26 Here in Cambodia there may be just a few hundred. This is the latest battlefield in Steve’s war on the tiger traffickers.. MCU tiger jumps from water 10:50:32 MWS tiger playing with tyre 10:50:35 10:50:38 MUSIC OUT COMM: This tiger has survived the poachers, but like his distant cousin in Russia, he’s not free. MWS Suwannah and Steve walk to tiger pen 10:50:43 10:50:45 COMM: Suwannah Gauntlett was a major private donor to wildlife conservation groups, but decided to be more directly involved, and now heads Wildaid in Cambodia. 10:50:56 SUWANNAH (V/O) I had a pretty global view of what’s going on in the field.. MCU Suwannah, face to cam CAPTION: bottom pic ‘Suwannah Gauntlett’ 10:51:00 10:51:02 (SYNC) Which NGO’s which organisations were doing research which were implementing what, and I was very disappointed because I saw, most everybody doing research.. MWS Steve jumps over bar runs down side of fence, tiger runs on other side 10:51:09 10:51:11 SUWANNAH (V/O) ..and issuing reports.. But almost nobody doing something to stop the poaching and to stop the wildlife trade. That’s when I met Steve Galster.. MCU Suwannah, face to cam 10:51:22 (SYNC) ..who was actually doing something on the ground to protect the tigers from extinction. MWS Steve standing at fence with tiger 10:51:26 10:51:27 COMM: Taking a leaf out of Steve’s conservation book Suwannah undertook the very first undercover operation against wildlife dealers in Cambodia. CU tiger licking hand 10:51:32 MWS P/L across busy street to wagon 10:51:36 10:51:37 COMM: Posing as a buyer she went to this wholesaler’s house in Phnom pen where she was offered three tiger cubs. MS tiger cub in cage 10:51:43 10:51:45 SUWANNAH (V/O) They were in fairly good condition except for one, who was eight months old and had been beaten with a metal bar and his skull was fractured.. MS tiger lying down in cage 10:51:50 MCU tiger lying in cage Z/I to CU tiger 10:51:54 SUWANNAH (V/O) ..his tongue was sticking out from the concussion and his back was broken and that tiger unfortunately had to be euphonised. VIDEO FOOTAGE - MS police arrest dealer on street 10:52:04 COMM: Claiming that the tiger cubs were his pets, the dealer was arrested.. MS tiger cubs on Suwannah’s lap 10:52:09 But neither the police not the prosecutor had dealt with a case like this before, and a few hours later, the dealer was released, no charge. MS dealer on back of motorbike with policeman 10:52:13 MS policeman and dealer drive off 10:52:16 T/D from Wildaid sign to tiger behind fence 10:52:21 10:52:24 COMM: Since the undercover operation Suwannah has cared for the surviving cubs at her wildlife centre, but that brings more problems.. MCU group looking at tiger 10:52:28 MS tiger 10:52:31 10:52:33 SUWANNAH (V/O) One thing is to do a sting operation.. MWS people leaning on fence left pic, tiger behind fencing right pic 10:52:35 But its another thing to then care for the proceeds of the wildlife trade.. MS Suwannah, face to cam 10:52:39 (SYNC) This is an issue when you stop, you know thousands of animals special shipments to Vietnam to China, what do you do with the live animals.. MS Steve and Suwannah leaning on fence, tiger behind fencing right pic 10:52:48 10:52:50 COMM: Like Ferocious in Russia, these tigers can never be released back into the wild.. CU tiger 10:52:52 CU Steve in sunglasses 10:52:56 COMM: Steve is determined that the only solution is to stop the tiger trade before it gets to this stage.. CU tiger 10:52:59 Silhouetted horizon 10:53:03 MUSIC IN L/A WS field, mountains b/ground 10:53:07 Roof of truck f/ground landscape b/ground 10:53:10 COMM: Cambodia is Steve’s most ambitious project yet.. MS rangers sitting in back of truck 10:53:13 10:53:16 COMM: In Bokor, Wildaid has set up a national training camp for anti poaching squads.. MCU rangers on back of truck, car following in b/ground 10:53:19 10:53:21 COMM: Its familiar territory for some of the rangers, who fought vicious battles in this region during the fighting with the Khmer-rouge. MWS large unused building 10:53:23 H/A MWS ruined buildings 10:53:26 MWS metal frame on grassland 10:53:28 MCU rangers sitting back of truck 10:53:30 10:53:31 STEVE (V/O) Most of the guys down here were either fighting on the side of Vietnamese and the Cambodian government against the Khmer-rouge.. MS Steve, face to cam 10:53:37 (SYNC) There are some guys who are con, conscripted into the Khmer-rouge. MWS trucks with rangers sitting in back pull up on track 10:53:41 10:53:43 COMM: Although defeated in 1989 the Khmer-rouge fighters didn’t just disappear.. 10:53:49 STEVE (V/O) People don’t realise, the Khmer-rouge are still in Cambodia, they’ve just changed uniform.. MS rangers with guns, backs to cam, walking through grassland 10:53:54 And the mafia that they’ve turned into is dealing in gems, timber, wildlife and they’ve got guns. 10:54:00 MUSIC OUT MS ranger standing in front of white board 10:54:02 MS ranger f/ground puts hand in air 10:54:06 MS Steve and Mark Bowman 10:54:07 10:54:08 COMM: Steve has recruited former Australian army officers to train rangers in weapons use, survival and communication skills.. MS ranger, fingers up, CU back ranger’s head f/ground 10:54:11 MWS rangers training, white board in b/ground 10:54:13 10:54:15 COMM: Skills they need to work in some of the most hostile terrains in the world. A few years ago seven rangers were injured in a grenade attack launched by loggers.. MS rangers training 10:54:24 COMM: And the war has left the country wriggled with landmines. 10:54:29 MARK BOWMAN (V/O) Pailin which is one of the heaviest mined areas in Cambodia we have serious problems er.. MS ranger training 10:54:31 MS Mark Bowman, face to cam CAPTION: Mark Bowman Director, Enforcement Programme 10:54:35 10:54:37 MARK (SYNC) ..a lot of our personnel we don’t want them to patrol off a lot of the tracks erm because there is no real mark, er there is no real mark er there is no markers for the minefields.. MS rangers training 10:54:42 (V/O) So we’re very unsure what areas we can go in and what areas we can’t. CU Mark 10:54:47 MS group of rangers 10:54:48 MARK (V/O) In that area they’re? using mines as well as unexploded ordnance for tracking animals. MS rangers in forest 10:54:54 Poachers were killing elephants using the meat to trap tigers and the trap would consist of a, a noose... MS Mark, face to cam 10:55:00 (SYNC) hooked up to a, erm a, a mortar round, and when the tiger grabbed the, the meat, the mortar round would drop exploding and killing the tiger. H/A WS over landscape 10:55:09 MUSIC IN 11:55:11 COMM: Out here the stakes are higher than almost anywhere in the world, for both tiger and ranger.. MWS landscape 10:55:13 WS landscape 10:55:15 WS landscape 10:55:18 10:55:19 STEVE (V/O) Globally, wildlife law enforcement officers are nine to ten times more likely to be assaulted with deadly force than their urban counterparts, in other words regular police.. MS Ranger tracking through forest 10:55:22 MUSIC OUT MWS ranger tracking in forest 10:55:25 MCU two men in forest ? 10:55:29 10:55:30 STEVE (V/O) Now I think its largely because they’re out here in the forest nobody is watching, people think they can get away with things.. MS ranger tracking in forest 10:55:33 MUSIC IN Z/I MCU ranger gun above head 10:55:35 MWS ranger crouched with gun in forest 10:55:38 MWS ranger crouched with gun in forest 10:55:39 10:55:41 MARK (V/O) The greatest concern we have is we want everyone to come back from patrol safely because you don’t know what you’re going into.. BCU side profile ranger 10:55:43 MCU Mark in forest 10:55:45 MS ranger crouched with gun 10:55:47 MARK (V/O) And since we’ve trained these people in the area we’ve never had a ranger killed we’ve never had a poacher killed.. MCU ranger with gun, waves arm to side 10:55:48 MS rangers crouched in forest 10:55:51 MCU two people in distance in forest 10:55:53 MS Mark, face to cam 10:55:55 MARK (V/O) If it was really aggressive, you know there’d be a high body count. MWS rangers close in on poachers in forest 10:55:57 SERIES of shots – catching poachers in forest 10:55:59 CU side profile ranger MS poacher lying face down, ranger securing his hands behind back 10:56:10 10:56:11 MUSIC OUT STEVE (V/O) We’ve had people tell us that we’re overly militaristic or too aggressive.. MCU Steve, face to cam 10:56:15 STEVE (SYNC) And when I hear that it makes my blood boil for two reasons erm, one, at least half of our money and time is spent on poverty alleviation and education work, but secondly yeah half of our work is law enforcement and the thing is that’s what’s needed. WS landscape 10:56:30 MUSIC IN P/F CU fence wire to MS tiger lying on snowy ground 10:56:34 10:56:37 COMM: Back in Russia, this approach is desperately needed. Siberian tigers were once widespread here, there are now more in captivity than wild, and at the wildlife refuse, Ferocious has company.. MS keeper standing over tiger in cage Z/I to tiger in cage 10:56:49 MUSIC OUT 10:56:54 COMM: This six month old amur tiger cub was brought here by an Inspection Tiger patrol. Like Ferocious the cub has a broken jaw, but unlike Ferocious, its been shot. MS keeper crouched next to cage, face to cam 10:57:07 KEEPER (SYNC) The bullet went through the nose and smashed its right hand jaw. P/F wire on cage to BCU tiger cub 10:57:14 COMM: The cub’s nose is still bleeding but after an emergency operation its eating again, and might survive. MS keeper crouched next to cage, face to cam 10:57:22 MAN (SYNC) We had a dilemma, whether to destroy her but we’ll try to save her.. We decided to let her live and be a friend for Ferocious. BCU tiger cub 10:57:29 10:57:36 MUSIC IN COMM: The cub may live, but it will never be free. One less amur tiger in the wild. MS tiger lying in snow behind fence 10:57:43 10:57:45 COMM: But the fact that no-one knows exactly how rare the tigers are is unimportant to Steve.. MCU tiger behind fencing 10:57:50 The cub is yet more proof that the situation is critical. MS group of people standing in snow 10:57:55 STEVE (V/O) We don’t know exactly how many animals are left and that’s just the point, there’s lots of money going into research to figure out you know what’s here.. BCU tiger’s eyes 10:58:00 10:58:03 STEVE (V/O) ..but, if you only do that you’re basically studying the world to death. MS people walking backs to cam past tiger enclosure 10:58:09 10:58:11 STEVE (V/O) But we know its bad and we know there’s no time to waste to do anti poaching efforts and to try to get people to stop buying the stuff. MWS tiger walking through snow 10:58:13 MCU Steve, face to cam 10:58:19 STEVE (SYNC) We’re trying to bridge the gap between the situation now which is this apathy, lack of support, to what we hope will be the situation where governments will finally take over and push us out of the picture and say we don’t need you anymore.. And I’d be the first person to say great.. START OF END CREDITS – split screen - scroll up screen to half way 10:58:36 Narrator PAUL McGANN 10:58:39 COMM Have your say on tonight’s show and explore a world of extra information new stories and features by visiting our website at bbc.co.uk/this world.. Music ROBERT HARTSHORNE Camera YURY BURAK MARC LABAN Sound ANDREY BATLUTSKY SOMYOT PISAPAK Online Editor BILL OGDEN Colourist JONATHAN LIEB Dubbing Mixer MATT SKILTON Consultant MICHIEL HOTTE, TIGRIS FOUNDATION, NETHERLANDS With thanks to PHOENIX FUND, VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA UTYOS WILDLIFE CENTRE KUTUZOVKA, RUSSIA BOKOR NATIONAL PARK, CAMBODIA HAO YAI NATIONAL PARK, THAILAND Production Coordinator ED SOANS Head of Production CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Editor RUSSELL CROCKETT Executive Producer ANN HAWKER Produced and Directed by AMANDA FELDON A CICADA FILM for BBC 10:59:01 Editor KAREN O’CONNOR 10:59:04 10:59:09 MUSIC OUT SCREEN BLACK 10:59:19 END. TIGER TRAFFIC P. 1