Photographer Adrian Steirn and his team document the ethics and challenges of wildlife storytelling. They tracked a darted rhino and captured rare leopard footage, wrestling with the tension between intervention and letting nature unfold. The series airs globally through News Corp to reach audiences on conservation.
The fundamental challenge is how to tell a story but let the story tell itself. And that story will be told long after you're gone, long after I'm gone. Put your feet together as close as you possibly can. You can pull that left shoulder up. You're a handsome man, John Carney.
You're a witch doctor. You have magic.
Uh, we're going to try and locate this rhino. They're saying we can't do it. We're driving out there to see what we can do. Okay, so they've darted the male.
Wonderful entrance. It's gonna look very beautiful.
Sure.
My lighting is always really bum compared to this.
There you go, there's a compliment. We live in country. This is not going to be that easy. 15 leopard in the whole country. It'll be very interesting to see what comes back from that camera trap.
It's just very frustrating.
This is the best. I'd imagine it's— What? It depends whether the leopard likes the beetles.
Oh, we got leopard! We've got leopard!
We just got to find her location.
We just don't want to disturb her.
That little calf is the rhino that should never have been born.
My big thing as a photographer is to get the most intimate access. Oh, they're good. I'm more this way and leading into shot.
I like that.
And I really wanted South Africa now in 2014 to live in the present, appreciate the present.
The series will be distributed with News Corp, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal.
To have a global interest is extraordinary for us. Conservation is It's not easy, but if conservation equals self-preservation, we don't really have a choice.
We need to engage the entire world. We do need to care about our world.
What they've done is literally put an armoured dressing over that wound. She's got a chance now. Back, Luan. No, no, he can see you. I can see you.
