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My name is Patrick Brown.
I\'m a photographer.

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I\'ve been working on a subject
for the last five years

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about the illegal trade of animals in Asia.

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The black market wild life
trade is third behind

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the illicit drug, illicit arms trade.

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They don\'t really know
how big the trade is.

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All they know, it is huge.

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The biggest ingredients
in the cocktail is China.

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The Chinese people now

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have money to burn. They
have gone from a generation

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of horse and cart to driving
around in a Mercedes.

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Things are placed on order almost now.
I would like

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a tiger this week. And they
will get a tiger this week.

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This is mythology that has been embedded

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for centuries and this is what

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this project is up against.
Hundreds and hundreds of years

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of indoctrination.

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The mythology of the animal trade

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if you want to break it
right down, it\'s simple.

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It\'s that you are what you eat.
You consume a tiger,

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or part of the tiger, you will
inherit something of that tiger.

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A rhino takes two hours to mate

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so somebody a few centuries ago said

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if you eat the horn of a rhino
you will mate for two hours.

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What a lot of people are doing now

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is soaking the rhino horn in Viagra,

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and because the horn is porous,

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it\'s made of hair, it will soak up

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the active ingredients,
hence the rhino horn works.

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So they can charge more money
for the natural version

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than the synthetic.

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Rhino horn is five times more
valuable than gold once it gets to

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Hong Kong, Singapore, and
especially in the Middle East.

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It\'s a very lucrative piece of hair.

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This bear farm had 290 bears

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and they rotate them in a three-week cycle.

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Luckily, I have a very large
surgical scar on my stomach

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and I was able to convince
them that I had stomach cancer

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and I was dying.

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I was lying to the people
who owned the bear farm.

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They sedated one of the bears

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and then started to use an ultrasound

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to find its gallbladder.

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Wheeled the bear back into the cage

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and the bear obviously came to

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maybe a few hours later
and it was none the wiser

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of what had actually happened.

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I had to drink it. I mean,
that\'s why I went there

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was to look for a cure. I
couldn\'t suddenly say, Oh no,

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I don\'t want to drink this.

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I just filled the glass
up as far as I could

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with rice whiskey and drank it.

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By me being there I\'m not
going to be able to stop it.

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The events had already taken
place to get to that point.

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But one thing I\'m able to do
is document it, bring it out

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of these areas that are quite remote

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and show to a greater audience.

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When I started to see

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what was really for sale, I
was starting to go, well,

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where are these animals coming from.

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I mean, these are quite diverse creatures.

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They are not just coming from close

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vicinity. These are coming

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from hundreds and hundreds of miles away.

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That\'s when I realized that
there was a network in place.

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The phone rings. Contact.
And all he said to me was,

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\"Mr. Paddy, airport, now.\"

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They laid all the boxes out and
they started to open them.

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There was two adult pangolins
and a baby pangolin

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and in there was dry ice to put
them into a hibernation state.

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They had to then get them all out

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because they were starting to overheat.

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They needed to get in to the
wild as soon as possible because

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they were going to die.

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Within five hours of the raid

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they were trucked away to a national park.

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This bust was worth about
two-and-a-half million US by the time

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it would have got to China.

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They were able to throw money
at this to get them on a

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cargo plane, obviously
paying off customs officials

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along the way. It was a very,
very professional job.

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I was on a patrol with the
Royal Forestry in Cambodia.

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We go in at night, no lights, no talking.

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The reason why they do these
night insurgences is so

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the local villages don\'t
know where you\'ve entered

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to raise the alarm to tell
everybody to get out of there.

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On the second day we came
across some poaching activity

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and it led to a camp. They
captured four poachers

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who the night before had caught

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a Slow Loris and some monkeys.

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First offenders, they\'re
sent off to an educational

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facility where they\'re taught about
what their actions are doing

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to the environment.

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Repeat offenders, they
don\'t get a second chance.

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They go to jail.

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The image that has the most
resonance for me is the image of

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a poor innocent Muslim
woman in Northeast India

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who has been caught with a rhino horn

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that her brother and her husband
had poached the night before.

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So you get the horn.

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You photograph it, you identify
it and you log it into a book.

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The only people that are going
to check on it are the police.

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That\'s where corruption steps in.

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There\'s just too much money
to be made in rhino horn.

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While I was in the back
of the police vehicle,

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he has just divorced his wife
on the way to sentencing.

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The husband and the brother
are basically, they\'re now

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no longer connected
relationship-wise to this girl.

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She\'s on her own.

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Another policeman has stuck
his head in the window

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and said to the girl you\'re
up for the death penalty.

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At that moment is when she
realized that she was totally

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alone in this world.

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She\'s a 26-year-old lady. Her
life is going to take a turn

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that you and I have no comprehension of.

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What is actually happening in
Asia regarding the environment

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has a global effect. There
is no ifs or buts about it.

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We can deny and stick our head
in the sand as long as we want,

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but these are serious consequences.

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At the rate at what we are
depleting the animal stocks

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if you want to call them that,
it\'s not going to be long before

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there is not much left, 10, 20 years.

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The number one thing is
tell your local politicians

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that this is important to you.

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The only way action is going to be
done is if world leaders realize

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realize that it\'s important
to their constituency.

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If I had a choice of one emotion
to be generated or one action

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to take place from the result
of somebody seeing my work,

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it\'s for them to go to
their government and say,

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I am not happy with what is happening.
I am not voting for you.

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You change things and I\'ll vote for you.