And the Hello everyone welcome back to National Park After Dark. We have another

return guest for you. I know we're on a role with returning guests as recently.

And it's great because it's been so long since we've spoken with them in a formal way, you know, obviously

exchange emails and we're all friends on Instagram and stuff like that. So we see what's going on but

to actually sit down and have a revisit kind of conversation is really cool and today we have on

John Jerko we had him on over a year ago so you may not remember if you're new and you're like who's this you should go back and

listen to the first episode and then come right back and listen to this one yeah

pause go back we'll give you a second okay great welcome back okay you're back back Okay, great. Welcome back.

Okay, you're back.

So yeah, so when we first spoke with John over a year ago,

we got familiar with the movie Rhino Man that he was working on.

And Rhino Man follows the courageous field

Rangers who risked their lives every day to protect South Africa's rhinos from

being poached to extinction. It highlights one ranger in particular Anton M. Simba the head ranger of the Timbawati private nature reserve

as he and his team battle to protect the rhinos. It also follows the legendary trainer Ruben Dacock

and his wife Marianne struggle

to take a group of candidates

through rigorous ranger selection

at the Southern African Wildlife College.

It's a race to inspire the next generation

to care for the rhinos and the natural world,

before poachers and habitat loss wipe out one species after another.

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