The Inquiry Junior - What’s Killing Africa’s Elephants?
The Inquiry
BBC
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This is a special edition that younger listeners aged 10 to 14 can also enjoy. If you’re no longer in that bracket, don’t worry, The Inquiry as you know and love it will be back to normal after the next two episodes. It’s an experiment and we’d love to know what you think of it. Please email us Theinquiry@bbc.com or tweet @bbctheinquiry.
What’s Killing Africa’s Elephants? Poachers, jewellery makers and angry farmers: the story behind the drop in elephant numbers across Africa.
Presenters: Priscilla Ngethe and Kate Lamble.
Image: African elephants (Credit: BBC)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Kate Lamble. |
| 0:01.6 | And I'm Priscillineh, though. |
| 0:02.8 | I know, I know. You were expecting one presenter, weren't you? |
| 0:06.0 | Well, here at the Inquiry HQ, we've been busy experimenting with some episodes which younger people can enjoy as well. |
| 0:13.2 | We're thinking maybe 10 to 14 year olds. |
| 0:16.3 | But don't worry, Helen Amerriment will be back in two weeks |
| 0:19.5 | and the inquiry, as you know and love. We'll be back to normal. |
| 0:23.0 | You're listening to the inquiry on the BBC World Service with me |
| 0:34.9 | Priscilla Niede in Nairobi and me Kate Lamble in London. Each week we bring you |
| 0:40.2 | four expert witnesses answering one pressing question from the news. |
| 0:44.0 | We're trying something a little bit different for the next two episodes. |
| 0:50.0 | An Inquiry Jr. if you like. It's a bit of an experiment and we're still trying to |
| 0:56.2 | figure out how this type of show could work so we'd love to hear what you think. You can email us at the inquiry at BBC.com or tweet at BBC the |
| 1:05.8 | inquiry and if you like it please share it with anyone who might be |
| 1:09.4 | interested. Okay Priscilla, this week our topic is elephants. And to start with, I want to introduce |
| 1:19.0 | you to Craig Miller and his plane. plane. To get to this interview I flew back from our officers in a little yellow plane. |
| 1:31.0 | I only two people can fit in it. |
| 1:33.0 | It goes very slowly, but it can land almost anywhere. |
| 1:37.0 | That sounds much better than the buses we have here in Nairobi. |
| 1:40.0 | I know I'm so jealous, and as well as flying to interviews Craig uses his plane as part of his job |
| 1:46.3 | Flying over national parks to check on the elephants which live there there. It's an amazing feeling. You're high above everything when things are really good |
| 1:59.2 | and you're flying over hundreds of elephant your next craning trying to look left right, middle, backwards or wherever |
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