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It's an animal you can't help but look up to.
But what did we really know about giraffes?
Somehow these gentle chants have been overlooked not by one man having dedicated the last 20 years of his life to them.
Dr Julian Fennessy knows giraffes betterthan anyone.
So I get sick of Vera on what Julian has recently discovered is truly alarming.
I'm absolutely amazed that no one has a clue.
This silent extinction, some populations, less than 400 individuals in the wind that is more in danger than any gorilla, almost any large mammal in the world.
In an urgent effort to help, Julian will travel across Africa, from Namibia to the unsettled border of Ethiopia in south Sudan and on into Uganda.
To launch a daring rescue mission with a determined team is very beautiful.
That's to be protected forever.
There is hope, but Julian and his wife, Steph, know they must act now.
It's a very critical time and way have to do something now if we don't and a few years, it might be tonight.
Together they're standing tall for a remarkable beast, A true icon of African wildlife have gone extinct in atleast seven countries in Africa.
It's not gonna happen again.
There is no jury gonna go extinct on my watch, weighing up to two tons.
The giraffe is a colossal animal on dhe unlike any other.
You have to love something so big and we sort of, you know, out there it's so funky looking.
They don't make sense.
They've got amazing eyelashes.
And, you know, a lot of women love giraffe in their eyelashes.
Everybody loves giraffes.
I mean, they're a symbol for so many things around the world.
In a remote valley, Dr Julian Fennessy has found the intact skeleton of an old bull giraffe.
They can see this old ball.
He's huge, huge, also kind.
The massive bumps on the giraffe's head aren't horns or antlers.
They're different.
They're called Aussie cones.
They actually I, like, can't lead, like in your ear on when they're born, they're flat and then they fold out and they become bone and fused to the skull.
Males Aussie cones are much larger on grow increasingly massive over their lives.
Thing is a couple of vertebrae here giraffe, but there's only seven vertebrae in the neck, just like all humans and all other mammals.
This is the lower leg bone.
They kick out at lions and other predators.
They just knocked him for six.
They did.
It's about the same size as my daughter.
Julian's kids, Molly and Luca, are seven and 10 on, Just like their Dad.
They love giraffes.
A giraffe is very tall, has have darts, long legs on dhe, muscle calls and the neck and a tongue as long as her, um, Julian, his wife, Steph, run the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, or G C F from their home here in Finn took the capital of Namibia.
It's the first giraffe charity in the world that we spend so much time thinking, talking, looking at giraffe.
From here, they work with men and women, of course, the continent to save the giraffe.
There is a fine line between brave and stupid, and there's been a bit of a risk put a lot of money on the line.
A lot of our life savings really has gone into this moment.
It's no coincidence that Julian and his family live in the middle off Namibia.
It's giraffe central.
The draw found here are called Angolan giraffes.
They're one off nine different subspecies of giraffe spread across Africa.
It's just two day's drive from Julian's home to a very special place called the Swan Eb River.
Julian has been studying the draft live here for almost 20 years.
I mean, I remember coming out here for the first time.
I had no clue as a young lad had come out from Australia and I ended up sort of in one of the most harshest deserts in the world.
Giraffe thrive here to make this place is home.
This is where I love to count.
This is my own personal space.
I feel like I'm growing up with these guys.
You know, they might year after year, Julian and Steph have been coming here recording every detail of these animals lives.
This pioneering work is crucial to our understanding of Iraq today.
At some stage, we decided, let's give it a go.
There is just no one else who's looking after Drop that.
It's no one really doing the job, and they're pretty amazing animal.
I mean, if you see them out in the wild, I don't think this any animal like them that's so unique and iconic.
Steph and Julian have gathered tens of thousands of photographs on meticulous notes in a system they've invented to tell each draft apart.
Every single giraffe has a unique pattern, just like a fingerprint of a human.
I see a butterfly or see a sailing boat in one of the sport's Julian Bond.
See that something's being Australian, you know, sort of a little focused, but there's lots of markets how to identify them so we don't only look at the patterns.
We look at the shape off the Aussie corns, and if they have here on them or not, sense that all boys like the old because they know every giraffe was an individual.
They could do what no one else can on follow them over their entire lives.
On today, they found a very old friend.
Oh, I see the black spot that's way saw this giraffe many, many years before you guys were even born.
How cool is this?
This old bull giraffe was first seen at the very beginning of their studies.
Back then, he was already an adult, which means that he's over 20 years old on Dhe.
As of this moment, the world's oldest recorded while giraffe.
We don't know any giraffe.
It is his old disease in the world.
You know, there's just hasn't been the studies available to died until Julian on the T.
C s work, many of the really basic facts about giraffes were missing.
How long can they live?
How many other and even how far do they roam?
We're seeing giraffe movin distances that we never thought some of them in in the maybe are going more than 11,000 square kilometers.
It's absolutely amazing.
June has also discovered many of the secrets of their survival that they get enough water just from browsing the trees to defend themselves, have developed giant spikes, poisonous leaves and have recruited ants to fight the drop off.
In response, the giraffe skin has become tough.
They also have a John Black Sun proof tongue, and Julian has recorded that they can sniff out the poisonous leaves and pluck the moisture ones.
Most importantly, he has discovered that giraffes are vital pollinators and seed spreaders.
Without the giraffes landscape gardening Africa would change for the worst.
Each year brings new discoveries securely in technology, is now helping him see the giraffe as he's never seen it before.
Wow, It's so dark.
He can't even see his own hand in front of his face.
But his camera comm peel back the night his like Christmas all at once.
It's absolutely brilliant.
Julian can now see that giraffe are surprising, the active at night.
Then he sees something he's never seen before, just on the limit of what the camera can distinguish.
There's one sitting down right in front here.
I didn't even see that.
I thought it was a tree.
Well, this guy's just put his neck.
He's just turned it around, and he's resting it on his bump in the middle of the desert, where lawns prowl.
The giraffe has called upon the ground on Gone to sleep.
In zoos.
They study it.
Basically, when there nick is down R E M.
Sleep.
So maybe these giraffe a dream.
I've never seen that in a while.
If they are dreaming, who knows what while giraffe dream about?
All this is new to Julian, so this female has just turned that one's just stuck its nick up straightaway.
It's sat down.
It went down straight away, stuck its nick back, started to sleep.
I think they're talking to each other.
There's gotta be some communication.
It's like they're taking turns to sleep that we don't know for certain.
If these massive animals can communicate or how they sleep in the wild shows how neglected they've bean.
So much is new.
Giraffe were thought to be mute until this year, when thes noises were recorded from giraffes in the zoo.
At night, animals, which communicate often rely on being in social groups for their survival.
For the giraffe, discoveries like these about how they live together give Julian vital information that may help him save.
Um, I don't know anyone who's observed giraffe at night, and this is the first time it's ever been done.
You know, I know a little bit of back to rock, but I've never seen this.
But Julian's most jaw dropping giraffe discovery is alarmingly the simplest.
He's found that in just 20 years, the numbers of all giraffe across Africa have dropped by almost 40%.
Don't know how else to explain it, but everyone thinks they're everywhere and they're lovely and they're beautiful.
Course.
They can't be dwindling.
The numbers can't be going.
Numbers of plummeting.
We have lost many animals before and I just think it would be a really sad world without drop.
To put this into perspective, it's well known that African elephants are in trouble, their numbers are falling rapidly and there are just almost half a 1,000,000 left.
But what no one realized is that there are far fewer giraffes.
There are just 90,000 giraffe have already become extinct in at least seven countries.
Easy targets for poachers.
They're killed for their meat and their habitats are being destroyed.
That's frightening, and I think if we lost them, I don't know where I would be at.
I really think I've lost me, and so many people around us have just not done the job that we set out to do.
Time is running out, and Julian knows we urgently need to take our understanding of giraffes to a new level.
He has a revolutionary theory.
There's not just one species of giraffe divided into slightly different subspecies, but there are instead many unique species.
If Julian knows how many species that are, he can see which are the most in trouble and take immediate action to save them, but only by analyzing the genes inside the giraffe.
Can Julian prove how different they are to do this?
He's been taking samples of their skin and testing their DNA.
The information inside tiny plugs of skin like this could give Julian the power to save whole species we didn't even know existed.
Julian has got the DNA from almost every wild giraffe population in Africa.
Before he can run a species analysis, he needs a final sample from a population called Nubian giraffes.
There are perhaps just 650 left in the wild.
This group live far from Namibia, in Ethiopia, right on the water on border with South Sudan.
Julian has never been here before.
Being away from the family all the time.
It's not easy.
They are my life.
But so is dropping draft conservation.
And it's tough work.
From the capital, Addis Ababa, it's two days.
Travel West 21 of Africa's most remote national parks, Gambella.
Years ago, frying cost Gambella spotters recorded a wealth of wildlife somehow flourishing on the edge of a war zone.
But since then, the situation has changed.
All Julian has seen so far is Fars and cows.
This place is bad when the population in Ethiopia is going up by two million a year.
There's refugees pouring across the border.
To get his sample, Julian must find the last surviving giraffes in the park.
I'm hoping to find hundreds of jurors.
Let's feel there's no hope of that.
Sadly, you know, if we can find 10 20 draft form and that would be a great start would be a sample count of sample number of what's out there.
But the signs aren't good.
When he sees his first wild animals on the backs of eight heavily armed poachers reconnect and connected it not Mmm, they're all sitting here with a K 47 on.
It looks like there's been a least six cop that have been poached, little bit heated discussion.
So let's hope they can move on.
Take his name's Onda.
We go from there with one gun against eight.
There's little Julien Scout can do but send them on their way.
If this is what happened to the cop, no wonder there's literally a handful of giraffe probably left in this place.
The last surviving giraffe are thought to have moved deeper into the park area, engulfed in conflict and even harder to control.
It's another two days before Julian reaches the international team he'll be working with.
They've assembled to find and satellite tag many different animals in the park.
Julian's brought with him four giraffe GPS collars.
These will allow him to follow the giraffe, tracking their movements from space way.
Want to be out of monitor them, get some DNA Is we really have no clue what giraffe?
Almost nothing about this vast park is known with no roads or fences.
It only exists on paper.
To even find the giraffe is going to be a huge challenge.
The only solution is to use a helicopter.
Now they have a rare opportunity to shed light on the animals that live in this remote land and begin to try to protect them.
With Julian is vet Andre.
Ace, this is, uh this is a once in a lifetime job.
Really?
We know very little about these animals.
It's quite exciting.
Valuable data that'll come out.
They all know the stakes are high.
Okay, we've got it in front of us.
Team set to work.
Satellite coloring.
A range of animals generally don't give you much warning before they wake up.
She's starting to come out of the anesthetic.
Guys, get back to the helicopter.
The days tick by and in a ll their flights.
They have seen no giraffe.
Now Julian has just two more days to go home.
Not even having found a single giraffe would be devastating.
Team focuses on wooded areas because you're often spend 3/4 of their time browsing.
Then, in a patch of trees right on the Sudanese border, Julian sees what he's come for.
A herd of 30 giraffe Andre takes the way.
You have to give them the massively high doses to get them down.
So it's critical for me to get to the giraffe as soon as possible.
After it's gone down to administer an anti dot on get its respiration back to normal.
The giraffe is internal, totally awake.
Just the team holds it down.
They keep her calm with a blanket over her eyes.
Time is critical for Julian to take his theater in a sample from the least intrusive place foreign.
If I take a people sit here, just hold her a bit.
Okay?
That's just it's going next.
The team gently secure the GPS collar.
Now they'll be able to track where this giraffe Rome's and see if she crosses the border into South Sudan.
Time to let her go public.
Get off, Get off!
Get off!
You got me in missions with the one that please as I've beaten with a £10 melatonin ocean.
Fantastic.
Soon now, Julian.
Or know if his theory is correct?
We've always known giraffes look different in different places across the continent.
But are they as different as Julian thinks This'd is really exciting stuff.
This is the first d n.
A sample.
It's a little piece of tissue.
That's all it is.
But it's got a big mystery inside of it way.
Want to send it off?
Thio Germany get analyzed.
And who knows?
This is the key to understanding Gerard.
Now they can all be compared to each other.
Julian has just one last flight.
He desperately wants to get more giraffe.
Little bit of a mad rush.
This morning we were already too g o.
And we've just had another passenger from the while authority.
That steak with literally This is my last day.
I'm out this evening, so we're gonna get out there and see if we can find God without warning.
The government insists on an official accompanying the team on their last day, so there's no room for cameras, helicopter returns, what earlier than expected.
And it's soon clear why they've been shot at way.
Basically flew over some guys with some cattle in the past with two rifles.
Point up, and then we heard a bang.
The team is still in shock.
We all thought that basically, the chopper had been hit somewhere, so we thought we were going to get out of here really quickly.
Luckily, no one was hit.
Ah, and, uh, at the end of the coloring, that's the end of the draft coloring.
That's just that's just to incite the bloody war zone.
Have a writing team.
Can't find where the bullet hit, but it's ended Julian's mission.
Just trying to help you out.
We're trying to help conservation.
We don't even know what flavour draft it is out there.
Let's hope the sample with God.
We can take that and figure out who's who.
Julian must leave.
He carries a single precious cargo.
Nothing shakes you up more than having to make a 47 fired at you in a helicopter.
Scary.
I'll tell you what.
I'm happy to leave when we get home, the family and all my life.
Within a year, a helicopter was shot down on the pilot killed by poachers in Tanzania in the last decade.
It's estimated over 1000 Rangers have been killed while protecting wild animals in a war with poachers increasingly funded by organized crime.
The early results from the DNA analysis is just coming in and they are very significant, Julian suspected.
It looks like there isn't just one, but perhaps four or five separate species of giraffe on the Nubians.
Giraffes in Ethiopia should be reclassified as one of the rarest species on earth.
Their only other large population is in Uganda.
Here.
The giraffes were thought to be different and called Rothschild's giraffes, but they're the same.
In total, there's just 2150 survivors off this potentially new species left in the wild.
This is motor Sun Falls National Park, Uganda's largest and oldest conservation area.
It's the last great stronghold off the Rothschild giraffe.
Over 1000 live here.
They're very distinctive, with lighter coats.
White stocking legs are not three but five Aussie cones in the ground beneath their feet lie.
3/4 of Uganda's oil deposits and pans to drill are underway.
Keeping this front our population safe will now be Julian on the team's biggest priority.
An entire species of giraffe could rely on it.
Something goes wrong.
He and Murchison falls.
Rothschild's giraffes could be extinct in no time.
Time is now.
If we don't come together to say giraffe, it could be two, like losing this new species would be a disaster.
Julian and the Uganda Wildlife Authority have a daring plan to protect these giraffe for generations.
Currently, the giraffes all live on one side of the Nile.
They can't cause it.
The plan is more ambitious than anything they've done before.
They're going to catch giraffes from the north side and start a new giraffe population across the river, away from the oil drilling.
This is Tom Okello, Murchison Falls Park manager.
You know you should keep all your eggs in one basket.
We must keep some stock out off the oil area so that in the event that some impacts may come out of oil and what we have, a population somewhere to carry out this mission, the men and women in charge of caring for Uganda's wildlife have gathered from across the entire country.
Gorilla doctors from the mountains, the chief vets of the other great parks of Uganda.
Rangers from Murchison falls itself on Julian has brought along a secret weapon.
Vet Dr Pete Morkel.
I loved your office.
It's quite remarkable.
It's such a strange We put together beast function so well, catching and moving a while.
Giraffe is difficult and dangerous.
Pete has done it hundreds of times.
It is an unusual type of capture.
That animal is totally awake.
This is a stressful situation, but it does work very well.
It's the accepted way of catching drafty in Africa.
Before the team learns on the giraffe, Pete is training them on himself.
That animal falls more than two or three times.
It says.
That's it.
I'm finished.
It's not good for the drop.
Team is going to have to guide any giraffe.
They catch into a trailer using ropes.
We need someone giving good control way.
Need the people responsible?
They must be strong.
There must be intelligent.
There's no chance for sleeping.
I would show you.
You ready?
You must allow me to move forward.
Otherwise we will never love.
You must let me.
Oh, move.
You must let me move.
I don't want tea.
Oh, do What you want to do is stand a little to one side.
You want to have these draft delivered safe and sound.
That's the primary objective.
That's what's most important to May.
It's 5 a.m. on the team is preparing for their first day.
Did you sleep well?
I was ready to go.
All right.
Free of the vets are also Christian pastors.
Mind really does in prayer Almighty Father, We thank you for your love for us with their end, every one of us into your care with.
They have two weeks to catch on transport 20 giraffe protectors while we're in the wilderness.
Amen Group is inexperienced, but as Julian and Pete, no, the only way to learn is to get your hands on a giraffe.
We're going into action now.
Catching team moves ahead carefully.
They're looking to create a breeding herd.
So are after young, healthy females on just three or four males.
They hope the new population will quickly swell.
The rest of the car's hang back, ready to run in once they've caught a giraffe.
Even a small giraffe is so strong that no team could catch it just with ropes, and the dart in its rump carries such strong sedative that the animal must be given an antidote within 20 minutes.
But it's also a waiting game because if they try to catch it too soon, it could startle and run away.
Two minutes, the team watch for signs.
The drugs they're taking effect four minutes.
Everyone knows their job in theory, but giraffe is extremely unpredictable on the capture becomes chaotic.
The team is wearing a giraffe kick could decapitate amount.
Finally, they bring it down safely.
But it's not a textile.
Capture Julian and that Pete, step in Pete is in charge of the antidote.
Give the antidote, gentlemen, is the way Paul X them with chemicals, Really?
So if you don't give the antidote immediately, it's going to die.
The antidote is in in time.
Now the giraffe is wide awake.
Julian keeps it from struggling by sitting on its neck, putting on the blind party.
It's a date or a lot.
Hopefully, she's being a bit more election, just measuring time doing that, we can figure out hardly any research being done.
Nine.
Hopefully, we can just filled out more information out of time.
Okay?
I don't know, comma.
They keep the giraffe, the easier the next stage will be.
It's on the ground for over 10 minutes.
While the team take measurements and samples and position their trailer way, it's time to loop ropes around.
It would sell.
Use a speed demonstrated to guide the blind folded giraffe into its trailer.
Wayne is the last one to sit on the way, helping it that way.
You don't normally see them, so 1000 gets flowers.
It's best for everyone.
Learning for a job to stand up is a huge team is wearing of exhausting this one.
I think that this one girl and a pilot to be safe, vet Dr Margaret Reach edu makes a call 1 to 1 side.
I think it's not a good idea to keep trying welfare, so that's there.
Is unregulated.
Okay, back up their base.
The team have built a boma on enclosure for the 20 giraffe to go into, but for now it remains empty.
It's not a great start.
Undeterred, they're still aiming for two giraffes by sundown.
Rachel Francis at the Yocum lives here on.
He loves these animals.
The giraffe is very beautiful.
It is a design with good at credit on the world.
So I feel like they have to stay in the world forever because it got need that if they do, then he would have put the expiring date remain.
That has to be protected forever.
So I'm gonna help you to take it up.
Yeah.
At the end of the day, when you're capturing a drop, you just focused.
It's all about having that draft come down safely and get up safely.
I'm just totally focused.
Although many of the team of wild animal vets few have actually touched a giraffe before.
Like Dr Eddie, come Bali are more really very excited.
Toe work with giraffe.
For my first time since I was born, I just used to read books, but now I'm feeling the reality of what it means being a working with Angela.
We have a few of them, so it'll keep some.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good to push blood up their huge next to their brains.
Giraffes have the largest heart of all the land mammals take away over 10 kilograms on beats.
Crisis fasters our own.
When it was running the hot, it was much higher.
But right now it's settling down.
So the freighter's reduced those the breathing.
Liz, what?
Breathing is fine and it's very regular, very relaxed.
Europe.
It wasn't for me.
I feel that.
Yeah, Yeah.
Okay, everyone, I think Let's let the animal properly stand up.
Let it get up strongly onto its feet before we start to pull it.
Catching the giraffe.
You know, it's something that I learned from Pete.
No, If he says, things gonna be done, you do it and you're out there and you live in the draft.
Giraffes use a powerful next to batter off the garage, but Julian has to stay coast to stop the giraffe from hurting itself.
When it's down, you know, you're sort of quick rush.
Let's get all the things down.
Let's make it safe.
Let's make it sound.
And you're just waiting for that moment to get up safely.
Way slowly.
Team is learning that to move a giraffe, you cannot pull it.
Instead, you must gently kind it absolutely for letting pretty it there she goes.
Hopefully, we'll see you soon.
Bye.
Bloody really Hope this is.
Actually, it's my first translocation I'm actually involved in.
I heard lots of stories, but I've never been there.
The reality off it.
It's actually quite tough because it's very intrusive for the animals.
I think we just have to keep in mind while we're doing it.
The blindfold.
Calm.
Sit.
You're off on the slow 10 miles back to the Bomer.
Take the blood before she could be released.
Pete needs to climb up and brave the jar neck to free the giraffe from her blindfold.
He knows it's vital to keep calm.
Okay, what?
Finally, the first giraffe is in the Bomer.
Because giraffe for social animals left alone overnight, this one might panic and hurt itself.
Team are under pressure.
They must now catch her a companion.
The next giraffe is much bigger and stronger.
Team hold.
Their nerve has won ton of giraffe kicks out at home.
It's been a long day, but two healthy females are now safely in the Bomer.
Just 18 more giraffes to go, please to you drafted an hour out there in the Beaumont.
We don't know if they have feelings If they have family bonds, Are they sad?
I don't know.
The team will now pull back to leave the giraffe alone overnight at the lovely ladies.
Good night.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's, um, buses and repressed.
We pray that, Lord, you predict any more, you're going to come to protect us.
We're going way.
Pray that the animals.
So there will be seven.
I'm afraid that load my goal, that you give us great success.
And we pray that at the end of this exercise, we shall accomplish that, get in Jesus name.
And then over the next few days, with guidance from Julian and Pete, team grows in confidence.
Personally, I'm try to keep things under control.
If you get stressed, people around you get stressed.
They want to know that you're in control and you're working with them.
It is very important.
It's the first time that a Ugandan killer has done this.
This is very good for the country.
Well, he had a safety around.
All you want to know is that it's safe and sound, and once it's often gone and you can start to relax soon, the two giraffes in the Boma are joined by others.
This is the beginning of the small population that will form a genetic arc to take across the Nile, Determined to fill the Bomer and the little time they've got.
The team starts at dawn every day and finishes after sunset.
Their passion for this animal sustains their work.
They're very aggressive animals, Onda.
For that reason, I really loved him a lot.
Giraffes, majestic Anwar's?
No.
They oversee the forest.
My heart more because this car and I love its colors.
One of the most beautiful creatures in the world.
No, thank you.
Cool to see my dad.
Sad day.
I want to be just my dad.
I don't want you.
Did you?
If you're young, you're a couple tart.
Team knows the end is in sight.
You're right.
Pioneer Giraffe colony is complete.
Five of the giraffes are special.
They've been fitted with satellite tracking colors.
But one young male is special for a different reason.
There's wonder off that a lot of this and it just has the funny lift.
Just stay.
And his name is Melvin.
Look hilarious on his head.
Looks like a sea horse head.
And every time he eats, he looks very grumpy.
Stage one is complete.
The team could now rest before their final challenge.
As the night falls soon, these drafts will go where no giraffes have gone before.
Mission.
The rangers have also been carrying out their other duties, patrolling the park to protect the animals.
Here, Murchison Falls is next to Lake Albert.
On the other side is the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Human populations all around are growing on.
Some people cost into the park to trap and poach the wild animals using metal snares.
They feel like us when we are denying their right to move their right to get that right toe, be alive in the world way.
Don't want to lose them.
We don't want them also to suffer.
They have to be free the same way Good created them so way are not up to those porters by Tom's office.
Two large huts are stuff full off the purchase equipment that his rangers have found here in the last year alone.
Even elephant or giraffe becomes trapped.
This is the result.
If they could be reached in time, the stairs can be removed of the animals saved, but sometimes they're too late Dr Eric and Nell, the park vet, has been tracking a snared elephant for days.
He's just caught up with it, but it died on our ago.
The white accorded in a very wrong place.
It was unable to feed way have not lost them to adjust for a long time.
Now, coming to a year plan.
It's not a good happening.
It's really better side for us on this is a very big nose.
This has gone.
With all his genetic material gone, the elephant is taken to be buried and its tusks removed so that no poacher can profit from them.
It's a stark reminder of how vulnerable the Rothschild's giraffes are, with over half of their entire population in just one place.
Now it's time the team are preparing for the final stage of the mission.
Giraffes will be split into three groups.
There'll be driven for many hours.
Onda cost the Nile to distract them On the journey, the Rangers cover the truck with delicious leaves.
This'll specially vehicle has been paid for by the donations of hundreds of people from across the world.
But you're off in the Bomer.
You don't relax until they're released.
I still get worried until that last you're out runs out of a truck on his office.
Safe and sound.
Murchison Falls has never seen anything like it.
Giraffes are seeing the world from an angle even higher than they used to because of its precious cargo.
The convoy heads out slowly.
The team have put bars between the giraffes to help him stay upright.
It's such a delicate situation that eight men must ride up with, um to keep constant watch at the risk of being licked with John Tongue way.
Melvin is in the middle, so has to be handed his traveling next.
After four slow hours of driving, they reach an obstacle.
No truck or giraffe can cross without help.
Water here will flow over 4000 miles across the Sudan and into Egypt before it finally meets the sea just a few miles upstream, that horned is so strong they can cut from mountains, But here the river becomes comma.
Banks and the water are havens for wildlife on the current, gentle enough for a ferry to drive across it, A.
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The years of hard work from Julian and Steph are paying off in a truly extraordinary sight.
How often do you see a giraffe on a boat?
If anything goes wrong here, it would be a catastrophe.
You can count 12345 He's looking ways going.
He's checking out.
Knows you're off.
Has ever seen anything like this before, Safely pulls in and the passengers enter a land Untrue.
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We're on the way.
We just crossed over the Nal River with 60 this'll.
Side of the river is wilder.
Nothing was callers.
A giraffe has eaten the trees here, so the Rangers and Julian clear the way for the world's tallest living load.
None of this would have happened if Julian's life hadn't suddenly changed course over two decades ago.
I grew up.
I really wanted to be a stock broker.
Unfortunately, my dad dogwood on six things.
So it was tough.
I realized that I didn't want to spend my life 100 days.
I wanted to do something more than make a few bucks.
I'm really happy that I changed my game, and now I got my amazing lock in the world.
If Julian and Steph can show this translocation works, it could be the beginning of even bigger missions to save giraffe.
But they cannot do it alone.
What we need and what we'll always need us.
This money I've been doing to her off 15 years without being the same thing's gonna be done.
You do it and you're out there and you have to drop Everyone apart from giraffes knows that their long journey is finally at an end way.
Have to open it up.
Open the door first.
Alan, there's no time for hesitation.
The longer they're inside, the more chances of an accident.
You come out of this booth team creep back, so the nervous drops concede it's clear.
Head will be the man Melvin of the others make their move.
Well done, guys.
When it happens, it's amazing a ll the guys we've worked with.
That's been amazing effort, you know, and super proud, super proud that we've been able to do an amazing job together.
We're feeling pretty.
This is our taxes are released all our lives.
No problem.
Juror after juror runs off into a new life, the team can finally celebrate.
In this historic moment.
Dr Andrew Segovia, the head of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, has come along to join them.
I'm very, very proud of them.
Look at them.
These guys have worked for the last three weeks.
They're putting every fool they have left their families.
Commune have slipped in the bush.
Most important, they have shown their love for the giraffe.
They have hundreds of them little care, with lot of love, with a lot of professionalism.
I'm very, very proud of them, but also it's really one of those exciting bits for conservation.
This is just the beginning.
Theo Ugandan team will now continue their mission to save giraffes and other endangered animals across the entire country.
For Julian and Steph, it's a very personal moment.
After 15 years of hard and dangerous work, they can finally see the tide starting to turn.
If you have that moment every day, I don't reckon you'd be able to sustain yourself.
My heart wouldn't be able to survive.
Let's be honest.
Melvin was the funny one with the funny lips and miss him now but least is not in a zoo.
We did that.
We actually might a difference here, and I think that is something really amazing and not too many people can say that in their lives that they actually have made a difference.
Yeah, Over the coming months, the giraffes range far and wide.
Readings from their GPS collars show them traveling hundreds of miles as they explore, the new home team are planning more trans locations to further swell colony, and soon they hope that new giraffe carves will be born on both sides of the Nile across the continent.
Julian, on the team, are working closely with African governments on the people who live alongside these gentle giants to secure a better future for a LL giraffe, home to grizzly bears.