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Fatu... Come on, guy.

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Here.

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These are the last two
northern white rhinos on earth.

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Their names are Najin and Fatu.

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Hi, hi. Good Girl.

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She loves to be stroked
behind the ears and, um...

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...under the belly also,
just like here.

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Yeah, I've had her for 15 years,

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so we are
good friends.

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Good girl, Najin.

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But because of human failure,

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human greed, the result is
just only the two we have.

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Najin, she's 31 years old.

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That is like about six
years in human lifetime.

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And her daughter,
she's 20 years.

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So they are mother
and daughter,

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watching each other get
older every day with no new

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babies to teach and care for.

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{\an8}Hi, Fatu. Hi, Fatu.

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She's had some good
mud baths, it looks like.

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In the early 1900s,

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there were thousands
of northern white rhinos

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roaming the plains
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But due to poaching,
that number was down to only

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15 by the 1980s.

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Today, there are only
these last two females left.

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I've been following this
story for over 15 years,

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documenting a team called
BioRescue as they attempt a new

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scientific procedure to save
the northern white rhino here

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on a protected
preserve in Kenya.

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{\an8}- You see the young
21-year-old female and then

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{\an8}the 32-year-old female.

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{\an8}So it's a clear
difference in body shape.

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We have a clock ticking on
us always with this project.

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The last two northern
white rhinos are getting old.

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They will not be here forever.

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The males are already gone.

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There's no natural
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The only chance
would be via IVF.

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IVF is a reproductive
procedure where eggs and sperm

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are combined in a laboratory.

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The embryo is then implanted
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to grow into a baby.

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{\an8}But IVF in a rhino has
never been done before.

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The first step is
collecting oocytes, or eggs,

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from the last living
northern white rhinos.

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That's what the scientists
will attempt to do tomorrow.

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She's beautiful.
Beautiful lady.

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And hopefully you
will have a baby soon.

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We are scientists
doing a procedure which was

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never done before.

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And if we fail, then the
northern white rhino is gone.

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And that is on our shoulders.

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My colleagues and I have poured
our life into this project,

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so tomorrow is a very big day.

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The night before
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always quite challenging.

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You have all these
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If we make a mistake,

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it can have such
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there is an internal bleeding,

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there is an anesthesia
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the animal never wakes up again.

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The first thing
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how they're doing.

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We don't want him to be nervous.

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Fatu, come on, Fatu.

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Zacharia, you
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He knows what the stakes are.

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This is like his baby.

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Fatu.

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I've looked after
them for 11 years,

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and they do recognize my voice.

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This way. One more. OK.

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OK, wait.
Wait, wait, wait.

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OK, let her go.

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Back.

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Yeah, that's fine. That's fine.
Leave her.

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Make sure that she stacks
the horn in the corner.

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That's fine.
Leave her like this.

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Cool, guys.

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The anesthesia is a
really important piece of it.

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This is what Frank does.

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If he doesn't get the
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these animals can die.

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Two milligram deto,
100 milligram ketamine.

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Okay, you can go higher now.

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These procedures
can be incredibly risky.

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I mean, can you imagine
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a horn waking up?

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Oxygen is deep in.

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We had some accidents.

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I lost a disc in my backbone
because working with elephants.

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I broke my collarbone
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So there's some risk,

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but we have to know that
our patient is dangerous.

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It's not a teddy bear.

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But doing this procedure
is for us the only chance.

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This one, small one.

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There's two, actually.

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Have you seen that?
Next to each other. Yeah.

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Remember that
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lower side, yeah?

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Yeah. Okay.

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Is this left or right?

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Left, and
it's on the lower side.

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Okay.

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Good.
Good for the kids.

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Yep. Perfect.

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Okay guys,
crossed one hour border time.

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They're keeping
close track of the time.

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You know, they can't
keep her under anesthesia

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for that long.

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Okay, stop. Yep.

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Okay, okay. Very good.

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Okay, let's go.

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At the end, when we
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the second phase happens,
and we have to find the oocyte.

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Searching for the eggs or
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shipping container,
which gets very hot.

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And also, it is very
attractive for flies,

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and you have to focus very
strongly on the microscope.

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You play with the light and
then suddenly you see this

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purple light coming out
of a cell and then you know

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that is what you want.

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Is that a good one?

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- Yeah.
- Yeah, it looks good.

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That is what we do.

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The reason why we are here.

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This is the beginning
of new life.

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Robert, 19 oocytes.

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Yay!

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Good.

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Best result ever.

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Yes!

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Yep.

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19 oocytes means 19
potential chances to create

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new baby northern white rhinos.

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Your hard work paid off.
She is healthy.

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We never had such
result before.

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Never.
The best in any rhino.

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We are extremely grateful.

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Okay, now I have to
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Sorry, that is the second part.

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Otherwise we miss our
flight and lose our harvest.

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Okay.

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As soon as they're done,
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They quickly get all
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whizzed to the airport.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It's a race against the
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the lab in Italy
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into viable embryos.

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We have maximum
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when the oocyte
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Otherwise, the
project will fail.

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I have been
documenting the story of

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the northern white rhino
since 2009.

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I have probably made 40
trips which I have largely

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self-funded because this
is one of the most important

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stories of our lifetime.

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My goal is to reach as many
people as possible and inspire

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them to care.

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Hello!

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Hello, SLO!

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Oh, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Good evening. Wow.
I thank you all for coming out.

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I am so excited to be back here.

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Back in 2009, I met a
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for the first time.

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And quite unexpectedly,
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hulking creature changed
the way I see the world.

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I literally felt like I
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I was so moved by him, and
I couldn't believe that we,

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humanity, had
reduced them to this.

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{\an8}The world's last
male northern white rhino

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{\an8}has died.

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{\an8}A wildlife conservancy
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{\an8}45-year-old rhino
named Sudan died from

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{\an8}age-related complications.

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{\an8}Sudan was euthanized
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{\an8}worsened significantly.

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I cared for Sudan
every day for almost 10 years.

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He was so special
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strong and so powerful.

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But I think he also
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I can still remember the
last day we lost him.

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Everything stands still.

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The moment
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the last male
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it was just this realization
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I only took two frames of that
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of my camera to disturb the
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And that picture,

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I never expected
it to be so symbolic.

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I think people saw it and
recognized it's our last chance.

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It was actually Sudan's
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Everybody began to understand
there's no more time.

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After the eggs are extracted,
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within 48 hours.

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{\an8}Cesare's laboratory is amazing.

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There's this high-tech
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but then right outside are
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That's where you get
this feeling like, oh,

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we're playing God here.

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But this technology means
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just might be possible.

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The eggs will be
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comes from two different bulls.

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Both are passed away,
one in 2015, one in 2014.

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It's quite a
challenging operation.

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The sperm which is
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this new cell and then
new life starts to grow.

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The miracle of life is
something that is so fragile.

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It can be destroyed so easily.

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Rhinos survive for millions
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predators, and the
forces of nature.

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But in just a few decades,

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humans nearly
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Now every day that passes
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ground is one day closer
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being gone forever.

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So there's always this
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And our time is almost up.

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This is how we
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open plains of Africa.

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That's not actually what
it's like today for rhinos.

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This is what it's like.

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They have to be guarded
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heavily militarized men
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is worth more than gold.

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They are being
poached to extinction.

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And it's not just the
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It was just announced
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world's wildlife
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I just could not stop
thinking about this.

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And I started researching
and reading everything

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I could about this story.

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I wanted to understand,
what do we do?

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Is there hope?

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How do we stop this?

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And I just started asking
one simple question,

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which I could not find
in any of the stories.

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What do the people who live
right next to the animals think?

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Do they care about them?

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And actually, it has led me
down this amazing path of

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finding the most extraordinary
people that do care.

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We can often forget that the
best protectors are those

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people who are living
alongside the animals.

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They are the ones out
there fighting that fight

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every single day.

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My family lives
in the northern part of Mara.

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It can take me like
ten to twelve hours by bus.

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It's quite distant.
I do spend most of my time here.

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This is Brenda and
this is Yvonne...

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They are my two
beautiful daughters.

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My last time since I've
been with them is almost

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two months now.

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Sometimes it's very hard...

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but sometimes we
have to accept it.

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00:19:46,435 --> 00:19:48,688
It's more like
having two families.

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I have my immediate
family at home...

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00:19:51,982 --> 00:19:54,068
and my second
family is the rhino.

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00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:56,779
And I have to care
for all of them.

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The weight is on our shoulders.

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And the whole world
is watching us.

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There are only two
animals on earth capable of

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providing the eggs
needed to make

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northern white rhino embryos.

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00:20:27,977 --> 00:20:30,104
But even that is
in jeopardy now.

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We know that she has
issues in her reproductive tract

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for a long time.

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Everything's done.

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All is done?

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Everything's done.

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She has benign tumors and
potentially malignant tumors

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that are in the uterus.

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One of these tumors
may even become malignant,

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so that's the risk we
don't want to take.

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The results of
Nadine's recent health check

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shows that sadly she is too
sick to provide any more eggs

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to the program.

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So the number of new
embryos we can make now rests

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solely on Fatu.

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The extinction of this
species is on a razor's edge.

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Every day that passes is
one day closer to losing the

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last northern white
rhinos on Earth.

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I remember the
first time I saw a rhino,

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it was so exciting.

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00:22:04,281 --> 00:22:06,951
My father used to
work in Ol Pejeta as a fencer...

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00:22:07,034 --> 00:22:09,620
and I got to visit when
I was very young...

295
00:22:09,703 --> 00:22:11,080
and that's how I started
building up

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00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:12,331
being a conservationist.

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I want these rhinos
to be here for my daughters.

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And for the next generation.

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00:22:23,384 --> 00:22:25,719
Only five rhino
species remain on Earth.

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Three are in Asia,
and two are in Africa.

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Losing any of these rhino
species brings us one step

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00:22:35,229 --> 00:22:38,482
closer to losing
all rhinos forever.

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00:22:40,234 --> 00:22:43,195
Unfortunately, neither
of the last two surviving

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northern white rhinos

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are healthy enough
to carry their own pregnancy.

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00:22:49,201 --> 00:22:51,537
Saving the northern white rhino
depends on scientists

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00:22:52,413 --> 00:22:55,374
{\an8}using closely related southern
white rhino females as

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{\an8}surrogate mothers to carry the
embryos created in the lab to a

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{\an8}full-term pregnancy.

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{\an8}But none of this has
ever been done before.

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{\an8}It's a scientific first.

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The best time
to implant a rhino embryo...

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is at the peak of the surrogate
female's fertility cycle.

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Mating behavior tells us
when this is happening.

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Right there are the two
surrogates and the teaser bull.

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The one by himself on
the left is the male.

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When the teaser
bull starts mating...

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we know it's the right
time to do the implantation

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of the embryos.

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00:23:35,539 --> 00:23:37,333
The teaser bull is
a sterilized male...

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00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:40,377
So he still mates,
but it can't make the

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surrogate mothers pregnant.

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00:23:44,924 --> 00:23:47,343
I think one of the
surrogates is ready...

324
00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:49,511
I can see the male is
just following them behind...

325
00:23:50,763 --> 00:23:52,306
And this is a really good sign.

326
00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:55,059
This tells us that it
is the perfect time to

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00:23:55,142 --> 00:23:56,769
implant the embryo.

328
00:23:57,561 --> 00:24:00,189
Now my job is to call the
team and tell them to get here

329
00:24:00,272 --> 00:24:02,775
as fast as they can.

330
00:24:05,736 --> 00:24:08,280
We're in Amsterdam.
I'm about to board the plane.

331
00:24:08,948 --> 00:24:11,075
This has been the
most stressful and also

332
00:24:11,158 --> 00:24:13,327
exciting 24 hours.

333
00:24:14,161 --> 00:24:15,162
I got a call.

334
00:24:15,245 --> 00:24:18,415
I was in the middle of
a talk in California,

335
00:24:18,499 --> 00:24:21,418
scrambled to get here,
and it is just so exciting.

336
00:24:28,050 --> 00:24:29,468
We're at the enclosure now.

337
00:24:29,551 --> 00:24:31,762
We're driving up to the
northern white rhinos.

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00:24:31,845 --> 00:24:34,431
And right next door to them
are the southern white rhinos.

339
00:24:35,891 --> 00:24:37,768
And the sun is coming up.

340
00:24:37,851 --> 00:24:40,771
And there's just so
much anticipation.

341
00:24:43,357 --> 00:24:45,025
Here we are.

342
00:24:52,074 --> 00:24:53,450
Good morning, everyone.

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00:24:53,534 --> 00:24:56,620
We are extremely proud
to be here today because

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00:24:56,704 --> 00:24:59,665
it will be the first
time that an embryo from

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00:24:59,748 --> 00:25:02,751
a rhino source will be
implanted into a wild rhino.

346
00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:04,920
That is a very big step.

347
00:25:05,879 --> 00:25:07,798
50 milligram
butorphanol,

348
00:25:07,881 --> 00:25:10,050
which is five milliliter
from this stuff.

349
00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:15,305
We agreed in a quite
intensive discussion that it

350
00:25:15,389 --> 00:25:17,641
would be more wise to use a

351
00:25:17,725 --> 00:25:19,351
southern white
rhino embryo first.

352
00:25:22,521 --> 00:25:25,107
If the embryo transfer of
our southern white rhino

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00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:26,942
embryos is successful,

354
00:25:27,026 --> 00:25:29,820
then we would continue with the
northern white rhino embryos.

355
00:25:31,071 --> 00:25:34,116
Everything of these
steps are new ground,

356
00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:39,246
and therefore it is so
important to, to practice.

357
00:25:50,632 --> 00:25:54,094
It's a little bit like
sending a man to the moon,

358
00:25:54,178 --> 00:25:55,929
because as everyone knows,

359
00:25:56,013 --> 00:25:58,599
not all of these missions
were successful.

360
00:25:59,016 --> 00:26:00,184
Okay, let's go.

361
00:26:01,143 --> 00:26:03,187
Okay, good luck.
Good luck.

362
00:26:03,270 --> 00:26:05,731
And don't
miss your shot!

363
00:26:07,983 --> 00:26:09,443
Little prayer?

364
00:26:09,526 --> 00:26:12,446
Yeah, prayer?
Now it's your turn.

365
00:26:13,530 --> 00:26:15,324
I do it inside.

366
00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:17,785
Yeah, I do it inside.

367
00:26:20,287 --> 00:26:21,580
It has to work.

368
00:26:34,718 --> 00:26:36,178
Ready to go?

369
00:26:51,151 --> 00:26:52,694
Can you see
where they are?

370
00:26:54,238 --> 00:26:56,031
Get ready.
She is the one at the back.

371
00:27:08,794 --> 00:27:11,213
You darted?
Yes.

372
00:27:22,766 --> 00:27:24,226
Go away, go away.

373
00:27:31,275 --> 00:27:34,069
Tell people to move away so
the tranquilizer doesn't fail.

374
00:27:45,455 --> 00:27:46,707
Okay.

375
00:27:53,088 --> 00:27:55,007
Can we bring the tent?

376
00:27:59,761 --> 00:28:01,138
And more here, here.

377
00:28:03,891 --> 00:28:06,351
Frank,
what's the time right now?

378
00:28:07,144 --> 00:28:08,729
It's 36.

379
00:28:09,438 --> 00:28:11,648
The clock is running.

380
00:28:21,199 --> 00:28:22,951
Now
it's very sensitive phase.

381
00:28:23,035 --> 00:28:24,119
Give the ketamine, please.

382
00:28:31,293 --> 00:28:32,294
I'm in.

383
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:33,378
OK.

384
00:28:34,963 --> 00:28:37,215
We are in
with the needle.

385
00:28:37,299 --> 00:28:40,218
And now we have to concentrate.
One hundred milligram ketamine.

386
00:28:40,302 --> 00:28:43,347
And now let's
implant the embryo.

387
00:28:53,565 --> 00:28:55,275
Yes, yes, yes...

388
00:28:57,611 --> 00:28:58,904
It's working now...

389
00:28:58,987 --> 00:29:00,072
It's working now...

390
00:29:00,822 --> 00:29:02,950
It's there. Good!

391
00:29:13,168 --> 00:29:14,920
Thomas, success?

392
00:29:15,337 --> 00:29:16,421
We will see.

393
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:29,309
An international
team of scientists has

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00:29:29,393 --> 00:29:34,064
successfully implanted an embryo
into a southern white rhino

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00:29:34,147 --> 00:29:35,399
for the first time.

396
00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:38,318
It's a historic
international effort from teams

397
00:29:38,402 --> 00:29:39,820
all across the world,

398
00:29:40,195 --> 00:29:43,699
working quickly to save a
species before it's too late.

399
00:29:44,282 --> 00:29:45,659
The procedure
was carried out with

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00:29:45,742 --> 00:29:46,910
southern white rhinos,

401
00:29:46,994 --> 00:29:49,329
which are closely
related to northern whites.

402
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,791
The surrogate in Kenya
is healthy and 70 days

403
00:29:52,874 --> 00:29:54,042
into its pregnancy.

404
00:30:01,842 --> 00:30:05,303
Now it is a waiting
game to see if it's actually

405
00:30:05,387 --> 00:30:08,849
possible to grow a healthy
baby rhino via IVF.

406
00:30:12,769 --> 00:30:16,732
But on a personal level,
putting so much time and energy

407
00:30:16,815 --> 00:30:20,277
into this project has been
especially difficult recently.

408
00:30:22,029 --> 00:30:25,157
My wife is a cancer patient,

409
00:30:26,533 --> 00:30:28,452
and she had finished
her first chemotherapy

410
00:30:28,535 --> 00:30:30,620
in May last year.

411
00:30:31,705 --> 00:30:34,750
But unfortunately and
very tragically it turned out

412
00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:36,918
she had a relapse of
her cancer and it is

413
00:30:37,002 --> 00:30:39,421
not treatable anymore.

414
00:30:40,964 --> 00:30:42,591
So she will die soon.

415
00:30:46,970 --> 00:30:51,975
But we both agreed that this
is important for both of us.

416
00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:55,937
It's a mission we want
to achieve together.

417
00:30:56,021 --> 00:30:59,232
So that is our agreement
and that is my dream.

418
00:31:00,984 --> 00:31:04,738
I think all these wonderful
people working with us,

419
00:31:04,821 --> 00:31:06,948
they have the same mission.

420
00:31:07,032 --> 00:31:09,910
We have to provide
the final proof.

421
00:31:10,452 --> 00:31:12,871
When the first northern
white rhino calf is born,

422
00:31:12,954 --> 00:31:16,583
I think I can relax a
little bit more and give the...

423
00:31:16,666 --> 00:31:18,502
...the flag to someone else.

424
00:31:19,086 --> 00:31:21,046
But first we have
to achieve that.

425
00:31:24,132 --> 00:31:27,219
Last time I was here,
I had to race to the airport,

426
00:31:27,803 --> 00:31:32,057
fly to Kenya, and they
implanted that embryo into the

427
00:31:32,140 --> 00:31:33,475
southern white rhino surrogate.

428
00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:37,896
But then something
terrible happened.

429
00:31:40,982 --> 00:31:42,651
Six weeks after the procedure,

430
00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:45,904
we got word that something
was wrong at the preserve.

431
00:31:48,156 --> 00:31:52,953
Tragically, both rhinos died
before anyone could help.

432
00:32:02,963 --> 00:32:05,924
It took weeks before
we really even understood

433
00:32:06,007 --> 00:32:07,384
what had happened.

434
00:32:11,263 --> 00:32:13,849
El Nino,
which is a climate phenomenon...

435
00:32:13,932 --> 00:32:15,559
made by global warming...

436
00:32:16,101 --> 00:32:18,603
produced so much
rain here in Kenya...

437
00:32:18,687 --> 00:32:21,064
that the surface of the
soil was flushed away...

438
00:32:21,523 --> 00:32:23,608
and hundred year old
carcasses...

439
00:32:23,692 --> 00:32:26,528
mummies, buried by
the Maasais here...

440
00:32:26,862 --> 00:32:28,989
were released and
in these mummies...

441
00:32:29,072 --> 00:32:32,742
there are the bacteria which can
live up to five hundred ears.

442
00:32:32,826 --> 00:32:35,745
And they release
extremely powerful toxin...

443
00:32:35,829 --> 00:32:38,748
and this toxin killed
our rhinos in one hour.

444
00:32:43,461 --> 00:32:46,631
In this tragic
moment came a ray of hope.

445
00:32:47,674 --> 00:32:49,301
During the autopsy,

446
00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:53,722
they found this viable
70-day-old male embryo

447
00:32:53,805 --> 00:32:55,140
in her womb.

448
00:32:56,892 --> 00:32:59,144
It was this
heartbreaking moment,

449
00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:03,231
but at the same time,
this huge breakthrough.

450
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:07,277
Three and a half
years working very hard,

451
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:08,945
and that's really a milestone.

452
00:33:10,530 --> 00:33:13,825
It's the first ever pregnancy
caused by an embryo transfer

453
00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:15,327
in a rhino source.

454
00:33:16,369 --> 00:33:17,871
{\an8}In another
world first,

455
00:33:17,954 --> 00:33:21,124
{\an8}a southern white rhino
became pregnant by IVF,

456
00:33:21,208 --> 00:33:23,793
{\an8}but the mother and the
baby died from an infection.

457
00:33:24,794 --> 00:33:27,422
Unfortunately, we
lost it when it was 70 days.

458
00:33:28,173 --> 00:33:32,844
But this little baby provided
us with a complete success

459
00:33:32,928 --> 00:33:34,679
story that everything
was working,

460
00:33:35,096 --> 00:33:37,015
and we could start
immediately with the

461
00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:38,391
northern white rhino embryos.

462
00:33:39,809 --> 00:33:42,437
Now, next time we come
with very precious cargo.

463
00:33:47,567 --> 00:33:49,778
The pregnancy
proved the process works.

464
00:33:50,570 --> 00:33:53,823
But the loss of the surrogate
and teaser bull was a big hit

465
00:33:53,907 --> 00:33:55,158
to the project.

466
00:33:56,826 --> 00:34:00,372
It took months of work
on the ground in Kenya to get

467
00:34:00,455 --> 00:34:02,123
the project back on track.

468
00:34:06,211 --> 00:34:09,297
Introducing a new southern
white rhino surrogate.

469
00:34:11,424 --> 00:34:14,636
And then capturing and
sterilizing a new teaser bull.

470
00:34:23,645 --> 00:34:27,983
Now we are finally ready to
bring a new northern white rhino

471
00:34:28,066 --> 00:34:30,151
baby into the world.

472
00:34:34,364 --> 00:34:37,409
We begin by preparing the
frozen embryos for the long

473
00:34:37,492 --> 00:34:38,702
trip to Kenya.

474
00:34:43,248 --> 00:34:44,833
I have a number 2.

475
00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:45,917
Can you write that?

476
00:34:46,001 --> 00:34:48,086
- Yeah.
- 2 minus 3, 1.

477
00:34:49,129 --> 00:34:50,630
Everything is very fragile.

478
00:34:50,714 --> 00:34:52,632
If they heat up, they are dead.

479
00:34:53,883 --> 00:34:55,927
Okay, perfect.

480
00:34:57,721 --> 00:34:59,598
A lot of pressure.

481
00:34:59,681 --> 00:35:01,224
A lot of pressure
on our shoulders.

482
00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:34,799
Now the stakes are much
higher using the precious

483
00:35:34,883 --> 00:35:38,553
northern white rhino embryos
for the first time ever.

484
00:35:44,392 --> 00:35:47,937
It's easy for people who may
not be close to these animals

485
00:35:48,021 --> 00:35:51,566
to think that these are
habituated creatures.

486
00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:52,984
They're not.

487
00:35:53,068 --> 00:35:55,570
These were wild rhinos
that we are working with.

488
00:35:56,780 --> 00:36:00,867
You realize so many
things have to be perfectly

489
00:36:00,950 --> 00:36:02,535
in place for it to go right,

490
00:36:02,619 --> 00:36:05,038
and it doesn't take a lot
for things to go wrong.

491
00:36:16,466 --> 00:36:19,052
There is Jomo,
the sterilized male.

492
00:36:20,053 --> 00:36:21,888
It's really huge male.

493
00:36:24,724 --> 00:36:26,434
Our new
teaser bull, Jomo.

494
00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:30,730
He's not approachable
like the other one.

495
00:36:32,982 --> 00:36:34,734
And he is known for
ramming vehicles.

496
00:36:37,487 --> 00:36:40,156
So we have to do the darting
this time by helicopter.

497
00:36:43,243 --> 00:36:45,745
Julia is with you and has
prepared the ketamine dart.

498
00:37:02,303 --> 00:37:05,056
The plan is to dart
the female so we can perform

499
00:37:05,140 --> 00:37:07,183
the embryo
implantation procedure.

500
00:37:09,686 --> 00:37:11,604
And hopefully we can
keep Jomo away without having

501
00:37:11,688 --> 00:37:12,897
to dart him.

502
00:37:13,398 --> 00:37:15,316
He wants to be near the female,

503
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,736
but it's too dangerous
during the procedure.

504
00:37:19,738 --> 00:37:21,573
So we are a little bit
under time pressure.

505
00:37:21,656 --> 00:37:23,116
Our team is already in the air.

506
00:37:23,825 --> 00:37:25,535
As soon as they
dart the female,

507
00:37:25,618 --> 00:37:28,955
we have 30 minutes to
thaw the frozen embryo and

508
00:37:29,038 --> 00:37:30,081
get it implanted.

509
00:37:32,459 --> 00:37:34,210
That's Jomo there...

510
00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:42,844
Okay, just get as
close as you can to the female.

511
00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:52,520
Got it?

512
00:37:52,604 --> 00:37:53,605
Yeah!

513
00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:58,777
You have
a second dart yeah?

514
00:38:00,361 --> 00:38:02,155
The first dart
only slows her down.

515
00:38:02,739 --> 00:38:05,241
It takes two darts to
put her on the ground.

516
00:38:08,328 --> 00:38:09,412
The first dart is in...

517
00:38:09,496 --> 00:38:12,457
so we're just going for
the second dart now.

518
00:38:14,375 --> 00:38:17,212
Okay, got it.
So first dart is in,

519
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:20,465
and we start thawing an embryo.
Thanks.

520
00:38:29,766 --> 00:38:31,851
Second dart is in.

521
00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:49,786
Jomo is running
away now as well.

522
00:38:49,869 --> 00:38:51,788
We're clear.
He has left the area.

523
00:38:57,752 --> 00:39:02,048
The surrogate is down,
the bull is away,

524
00:39:02,757 --> 00:39:04,801
and now Frank is
preparing the anesthesia.

525
00:39:13,893 --> 00:39:15,436
Yeah.

526
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,939
Can we have some water here
for, to clean the ear?

527
00:39:22,443 --> 00:39:23,862
Yeah, yeah.

528
00:39:26,489 --> 00:39:27,782
You okay?
You need help?

529
00:39:27,866 --> 00:39:28,908
Yeah.

530
00:39:28,992 --> 00:39:30,827
Wait. Push it a
little bit over there.

531
00:39:31,870 --> 00:39:33,037
Get the leg out.

532
00:39:33,121 --> 00:39:34,122
Okay guys.

533
00:39:34,205 --> 00:39:35,748
One, two, three.

534
00:39:35,832 --> 00:39:37,000
One, two, three.

535
00:39:37,333 --> 00:39:38,668
One, two, three.

536
00:39:38,751 --> 00:39:39,752
One, two, three.

537
00:39:39,836 --> 00:39:43,006
One, two, three.
Get the leg out.

538
00:39:44,465 --> 00:39:45,925
Yeah, good.

539
00:39:47,135 --> 00:39:48,678
Yeah, have a look, wait.

540
00:39:52,432 --> 00:39:54,183
So we get a
call and then we start our

541
00:39:54,267 --> 00:39:56,728
procedure here and
joining them very soon

542
00:39:57,103 --> 00:39:58,104
for the transfer.

543
00:39:58,855 --> 00:40:03,151
Bottom left.
So diagonally down. Left.

544
00:40:04,861 --> 00:40:06,654
Do you see anything?

545
00:40:08,197 --> 00:40:10,658
Keep pushing.
No, in the other direction.

546
00:40:10,742 --> 00:40:13,328
In the other direction.
Am I in?

547
00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:14,495
This perfect
little embryo,

548
00:40:14,579 --> 00:40:17,373
which is barely
visible with the eye,

549
00:40:17,457 --> 00:40:21,628
to thaw it in a safe way,
it is very stressful, yes.

550
00:40:22,670 --> 00:40:24,589
There it is.

551
00:40:25,924 --> 00:40:28,801
Yes, perfect. OK.

552
00:40:29,552 --> 00:40:32,180
Embryo
delivery is coming!

553
00:40:43,149 --> 00:40:45,151
High up. High up.

554
00:40:50,198 --> 00:40:51,824
We have
in our catheter,

555
00:40:51,908 --> 00:40:55,870
this little tiny 100
micrometer big object which

556
00:40:55,954 --> 00:40:58,873
we transfer into this
gigantic uterus.

557
00:40:59,332 --> 00:41:00,917
It's a very
complicated procedure.

558
00:41:02,251 --> 00:41:05,296
So we are aware that every
step of that is so sensitive,

559
00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:06,965
it can easily fail.

560
00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:10,301
It's a very tense procedure
for everyone involved.

561
00:41:11,928 --> 00:41:12,929
Left, right?

562
00:41:13,262 --> 00:41:14,555
Right.

563
00:41:14,931 --> 00:41:15,932
Do you think so?

564
00:41:16,015 --> 00:41:17,016
Yeah.

565
00:41:18,434 --> 00:41:20,019
It's
up there on the right.

566
00:41:20,103 --> 00:41:22,397
There it is.
There it is. Okay.

567
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,649
Okay, I'm at the limit.

568
00:41:24,732 --> 00:41:27,235
Hold it there,
keep it steady.

569
00:41:28,277 --> 00:41:29,404
Pregnant!

570
00:41:30,405 --> 00:41:32,615
Pregnant for sure.

571
00:41:33,408 --> 00:41:35,994
The embryo is in.
She's pregnant!

572
00:41:37,370 --> 00:41:39,205
It's in, yeah.

573
00:41:45,628 --> 00:41:48,423
The embryo was
released and this incredible

574
00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:52,260
moment we have all been
dreaming of for so long has

575
00:41:52,343 --> 00:41:53,678
finally been achieved.

576
00:41:54,804 --> 00:41:56,806
We placed it in an
optimal position,

577
00:41:56,889 --> 00:42:01,144
so we are quite hopeful that
this first attempt in the world

578
00:42:01,227 --> 00:42:03,438
ever has success.

579
00:42:03,855 --> 00:42:06,774
Now it's on nature and
praying and we will see

580
00:42:06,858 --> 00:42:08,317
what, what happens.

581
00:42:10,236 --> 00:42:13,406
This moment, I haven't
actually fully processed it yet.

582
00:42:14,157 --> 00:42:19,579
{\an8}Today, I am reminded that it
takes these kinds of people

583
00:42:19,662 --> 00:42:22,498
{\an8}reimagining a world
where we can save species

584
00:42:22,582 --> 00:42:24,834
{\an8}literally from the
brink of extinction.

585
00:42:26,085 --> 00:42:27,587
{\an8}Historical moment.

586
00:42:29,005 --> 00:42:31,549
{\an8}Good. Now...

587
00:42:32,592 --> 00:42:34,010
{\an8}

588
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,444
Always rain is good.

589
00:42:52,987 --> 00:42:56,032
I hope it's a good
sign for the embryo.

590
00:42:57,784 --> 00:42:59,535
It's sort of a blessing.

591
00:43:02,288 --> 00:43:03,748
I'm dreaming that
we will see many,

592
00:43:03,831 --> 00:43:05,166
many more of these beautiful...

593
00:43:05,249 --> 00:43:09,587
northern white rhinos alive
on the Earth once again.