[Applause] and my soul mates they always help me clean my dishes so clean sometimes you don't have to wash them how about that Emily Ted Raleigh is a man who loves animals yeah they fat in his lifetime he has single-handedly created a huge wildlife sanctury in the tiny Kingdom of swasiland his determination has placed him at the center of a struggle between human life and animal life you can get out you can get out slowly and but don't turn your back on him when you see him with wild animals he certainly has a familiarity and lack of fear that is quite extraordinary we're getting scarcer because the range is diminishing being invaded by cattle and humans SP and as long as you stand your ground they won't close with you but if you turn your back that's another story don't ever turn your back on these things what would happen if you can't do that well I could grab you by the neck Ted was born in swanand as he grew up he saw that the big game was rapidly disappearing Agricultural and Industrial Development was swallowing up the velt by the 1960s when he inherited the family farm he decided he had to try and reverse the decline unless something was done swand was about to lose the entire Wildlife Heritage I suppose those are part of the reasons that U made me commit the Family Farm which I inherited to um nature conservation one thing that makes Riley's task so urgent is the serious increase in poaching in swasiland he set off to neighboring countries to catch the game that swasiland had lost efforts that were captured by Anglia television in the late 60s they documented his single-minded and often single-handed pursuit of his [Music] Quarry t managed to bring back 22 species of game that had become extinct in swasiland more than 30 years later not much has changed this road a better fun in the W what is that there's no traction slip and slide all over the place Ted Riley's success has been rewarded by the king of Swaziland and he's been given two much larger reserves helani andaya to look after as well in fact he's now the chief of all Wildlife for swasiland but there's one animal whose return has given him particular pride and made him a controversial figure the black rhino animal was as pleased as he is is quite capable of coming at us um unexpectedly just because he's a black rhino that's what black rhino do black rhino are one of the few animals that will attack a vehicle penetrating the floor with its horn they are powerful enough to flip it on its [Music] side these black rhino are extremely rare in most parts of of Africa they're extinct rhyo have been the main target of poaching for decades their horns are worth up to [Music] $15,000 in the80s Ted's reserves were turned into battlefields heavily armed networks of Mafia poachers came after his Rhino back then tid fin in his remaining Rhino at night his Rangers defended them from fors model on those used during the B War these are gun TOS so that you can shoot from inside people are after you and you're not safe at all but and it's just a matter of outwitting him like this when at that stage we had these R fivs um which are automatic weapons and it's a much smaller land than the AK-47 but it's equally as devastating you you don't survive one of those shots if it hits you properly come Nightfall it was often a pitch battle we did have a couple of cases where we came under siege and and the r were able to repel that from the top here by 1990 only two black rhino remained in the whole country the King was forced to act he gave Ted a royal warrant that allowed him to arrest and if necessary shoot to kill the poachers it's the biggest honor that you can possibly imagine since those Powers came into force not a single Rhino has been killed [Music] Administration the Royal warrant still enforced today protects Rangers from prosecution for murder as long as the poacher draws his weapon first the law is controversial in swasiland it vests a lot of power in Ted Riley all these bit and pieces of lws game act and everything it is Solly controlled by one man in a country which is a sovereign state this is very wrong the former Minister for natural resources Mahala masamba says Ted's men act with impunity even the rangers they break the law when they come out of the reserve and kill people for killing the animals that have come out to Destro so the their fault Ted admits his Rangers have killed but only in self-defense and you know even if we weren't game Rangers even if we were civilians in everyday life if a god pulls a gun on you I think you're entitled to shoot him so I don't know what he was on about but he was trying to make a case against us and he's still trying to make a Cas he's still trying you know they him keep trying Ted is Unapologetic about cracking down on the poaches our guys aren't to be messed with if they come in after rer they'll get hurt and then if he gets killed or maned you know who's to blame for that he knows he's breaking the law he knows what the consequences are and that's why we've got a lot of R here today today more modern surveillance Towers have replaced the forts but anti-poaching patrols are still serious business the fors are more of a defensive thing whereas this is more of a productive thing from here we go out we launch attacks they know each and every footprint of all the staff in the park and they can individualize these so the security here is probably the best I'd say in Africa on Rhino conservation and I think that's generally acknowledged by all the Rhino experts psycho on the way home we are treated to the swasi sense of humor Ted pulls over he's spotted a rare species of frog or so he tells us can you see the Frog yep yeah frog there I can't I can't see PR small a long way away oh it's a long way away there's another one yeah just behind you see walking oh playing at elepant the elephant comes towards the car forcing us back she has another elephant to watch out for good Ted is clearly proud of his achievement in bringing back the game but he feels he's only been able to do it because of his hard line on poaches he just can't forgive their cruelty to the animals and you can see the incredible struggle this animal put up all this High tense off steel wire how long do you think the animal struggled for who knows um it went right through the flesh to the Bone so it was a long time and then um perhaps it was eaten by Jackal alive have you found an animal in that state before it's happening now as I talk it's all over Africa people just don't know it because they don't see it this will give you a better idea that's the B of A a young rner who got caught struggled struggled and this um snare bit through the flesh into the bone that must have taken maybe even years to to C us to that growth the pain and Agony was unbelievable and out there there's no morphine and no vet or doctor to help you and no painkiller you just take a very long time to die in absolute agony does it surprise you that humans are capable of doing things like this no why not this is what people do people are are the meanest the meanest animal on earth it's not that he's protecting nature as such he's protecting his own interest because these animals have become a source of living for him it's business [Music] [Music] Ted Riley has fought off every challenge to his Animal Kingdom his animals are thriving because Ted met the poachers with equal Firepower but outside the gates of the reserve a new challenge is threatening swand survival [Music] this time it's one Ted can't keep out the country has the highest rate of AIDS in the world with four in 10 adults infected many of Ted's staff have fallen ill to the virus Ted supplied his staff with anti-retroviral drugs but unfortunately it's come late you know we we're in there already and and it's going to have a massive impact on us and on your organization on every organization while New Life stirs daily within the animal kingdom the nation around it is in [Music] crisis the scale of the epidemic outside his Gates May yet persuade this chief of wildlife that protecting the meanest animal of all is also worthwhile show show bab show [Music]