Julian Rademeyer: Killing for Profit

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Today’s guest on Danger Close is Julian Rademeyer.

Julian is an award-winning author, investigative journalist, and one of the world’s leading authorities on illicit wildlife trafficking. Julian served as a project leader at TRAFFIC, the international wildlife trade monitoring network, and as the Southern Africa editor of AfricaCheck.org. As an investigative journalist he worked for leading South African newspapers including City Press, Beeld, The Sunday Times, Pretoria News and The Herald and as the chief reporter for Media24 Investigations along with global news organizations to include the Associated Press and Reuters reporting from Somalia, Equatorial Guinea, Belarus, and Lebanon.

His bestselling 2012 book, Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade, has achieved widespread international acclaim for its unflinching look at the demand for rhino horn from Asian markets fueling its illegal trade and the organized criminal syndicates bringing rhinos to the brink of extinction.

Julian currently serves as Director of the Organized Crime Observatory for East and Southern Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. You can follow him on Twitter @julianrademeyer.

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0:00.0	This is the Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books with me, Jack Carr.
0:16.9	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an Ironclad original presented by Sixth Sour.
0:21.4	My guest today is Julian Radmire.
0:23.8	Julian is the author of Killing for Profit about the illicit trade of Rhinohorn and is an
0:28.8	investigative journalist and currently is the director of the organized crime observatory
0:34.4	for East and Southern Africa at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime.
0:40.0	Fascinating guy, amazing book, love talking to him, hope we can meet up in person one of these days
0:45.1	and now, without further ado, Julian Radmire.
0:50.9	I'm so excited that we're getting to do this, so thank you for taking the time.
0:54.7	No, thank you. It's been great since that Instagram post a couple of years back.
0:58.8	That's right. And you were over here back then, I think.
1:02.2	Yeah, that's right. I think I was just getting back from one of my trips,
1:06.3	but one of them was specific to help train up an anti-poaching unit,
1:09.4	it was much like it anyway. It was fascinating because I learned so much more from them than
1:14.4	they learned from me. They were just transitioning from the weapons they'd been using to some new
1:19.4	ones that I had a background with, so just kind of helping them there. But they're
1:24.4	backgrounds and their stories and their lives were the most fascinating part of that trip for me.
1:30.7	I mean, they've stayed with me and they're all older. That's what really got me as those,
1:34.3	some of those guys that were so much old, I mean, a lot of them were really old.
1:39.0	They caught like the Bush Wars tail end of the Bush Wars and they'd worked for whatever the
1:44.5	what National Police Force called what in America we call like a CSI crime scene investigation.
1:49.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so they'd done that and then they got scooped up by some of these
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