For more than 40 years, Beverly and Derek Joubert have lived with, photographed, and filmed African wildlife.

The images they captured are beautiful, savage, haunting, and mesmerizing.

They bear witness not just to the majesty of life on the African continent, but also to the host of threats, many of the man-made, that confront both the animals

and the wilderness. They have a new book entitled Wild Eye, A Life in Photographs. It winnows down

four decades of work to about 250 of the most powerful photos. Earlier, I spoke with

the Joubert's, photographer and conservationist Beverly and filmmaker Derek.

I asked them why they published a retrospective now.

It's really important to be able to look back and see what life was for us then and for, you know, all the animals and where we are today.

And of course we are losing at an alarming rate,

everything from the cats to elephants and landscape.

So we thought if we could bring a piece together

that truly is celebrating these animals

and hope that everybody will want to try and protect them.

I think that's true, you know. I think that it's a time now for us to all reflect on what was and then determine what's going to be.

What are the threats that you see?

Well, we've seen quite a lot of poaching threat.

We've seen over hunting in a lot of places.

It seems like Africa more and more is becoming this forgotten place.

People are so involved in their lives in the rest of the world that the future of wildlife

is off the agenda.

How did you decide, how did you pick which images went into the book?

That was a challenge, I can tell you. Going through 40 years of photography, the image

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