Commissions

Greenlit: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on Poaching, BBC1

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on Poaching (1 x 60′) – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall takes on the dark world of poaching and the illegal wildlife trade. He will lift the lid on a global and growing industry that is threatening the survival of our rarest and best-loved species.

In the wake of the Cecil the Lion scandal, the conflict between man and wildlife, poaching and conservation, trophy-hunting and the preservation of endangered animals, has never been more intense. For $20,000, tourist hunters can kill a lion for ‘sport’. Any poacher who can bag a rhino can sell its horn for more than the price of gold. And with an estimated 35,000 elephants killed illegally every year, without intervention, we could be looking at a world with no elephants in the wild by 2030. The stakes have never been higher.

Hugh will follow the surprising trail of trafficked animal goods – from the savannahs of Africa to the suburbs of the United States (and perhaps even closer to home). In a bid to understand this murky trade, and the fight against it, he’ll be putting himself on the front line of the action.

In this ambitious and timely project, Hugh will be bringing his journalistic nous to bear on this epic call-to-action journey– empowering and inspiring viewers to play their part in combating this crisis of the natural world.

Channel: BBC1

Producer: Keo Films

TX: TBC

Source: BBC press release