Inside Africa's Militarized Rhino Poaching Rings (Julian Rademeyer)

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.9 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On today's Change Agents, Andy discusses the illegal wildlife trade and its connection to global organized crime with Julian Rademeyer. Julian is the Director of the Organized Crime Observatory for East and Southern Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. He is also a former project leader at TRAFFIC, and the author of "Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade." If you want to learn more about Julian’s work, follow him on X @julianrademeyer and to see more about the efforts to protect rhinos from poaching, you can check out: https://www.savetherhino.org/ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original. SPONSORS: Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife Company. Use CODE "CHANGEAGENTS10" for 10% off your first order at ⁠https://www.montanaknifecompany.com/⁠ HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA This 4th of July, make Horizon part of your celebration. Don’t miss HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA, with Chapter One in theaters June 28th and Chapter Two in theaters August 16th. Join the Frontier Pass at Fandango.com for exclusive content and tickets. MTNTOUGH Go to ⁠https://mtntough.com⁠ and enter code CHANGEAGENTS to receive 40% OFF - a savings of about $100 your MTNTOUGH+ annual subscription. OnX Offroad Start your adventure with a 7-day free trial and experience the difference. Download onX Offroad today and elevate your offroading experience at https://www.onxmaps.com/offroad/app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	They would get reports of poachers coming in. They would fly out in helicopters, then drop out
0:06.4	with dogs. The tracker dogs would do the tracking, and you'd have guys on the ground, you know,
0:11.8	in small sort of interception groups spread out, and they would try to intercept the gang.
0:17.0	I mean, interesting, there's been a lot of dabbling with drones in national parks, which
0:20.3	don't work very well, mainly because of the terrain, maybe because the kinds of drones that are available at that sort of level or not the high-tech military-type drones that you'd see in military operations globally.
0:34.5	The best thing is a good tracker who knows what he's doing, who's been
0:39.3	on the ground, and the dogs, and they do the kind of best tracking.
0:46.3	How can I help? How can I be useful in ending needless suffering? Do not be afraid of work that has no end.
0:59.0	We have to organize a social movement.
1:06.0	We have an opportunity to lead, by example, versus just talking, hot air.
1:11.7	I think the more people in this fight, the more we grow, eventually it could change.
1:13.7	You know, the people are the ones that can make the change.
1:23.4	Good morning and welcome back to change agents, an ironclad original.
1:29.6	Today we're going to be diving into rhino horn poaching and its ties to organized crime in Africa.
1:32.7	Today's guest is Julian Radamayer.
1:39.2	He is an author and the director of the Organized Crime Observatory for East and Southern Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
1:43.0	He is the author of the book, Killing for
1:44.6	profit, exposing the illegal rhino horn trade. And today we're going to be discussing illegal
1:49.4	wildlife trade and its connection to global organized crime, along with Rademeyer's work,
1:55.0	which recently has focused on crime in South Africa. Today's episode of Change Agents is brought to you by Onyx Off Road.
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