You may believe that rhino poaching is a one-sided, cut-and-dried affair, but there's nuance, and you can get it in this excellent podcast: The Invisible Hand.
Georgina Savage returns to South Africa to document her family’s fight in a poaching war, but as she gets more immersed in the lives of those involved, she must confront the colonial past of her country and its implications on a conflict close to home.
The 2012 documentary, The Imposter, is up on Youtube in its entirety. It is a truly unbelievable story.
Videos ain't your thing? Here's The Chameleon, the original David Grann New Yorker article from 2008, which is the first time I'd heard of imposter Frédéric Bourdin. If you're unfamiliar with David Grann, he's the author of the Killers of the Flower Moon, which Scorsese filmed in 2023.
Absolutely mind-boggling.
The Telegraph did an interview with Bourdin upon the film's release.
Alligator snapping turtle populations in Texas were dwindling. One family of smugglers had been poaching them from the state for years. True Crime by Sonia Smith in Texas Monthly.
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