episode description
Rudie and Marlice fly to Hobatere, a concession area on the Western border of the Etosha National Park. Here they meet with Mesag Saal - a farmer, land owner and conservationist. They go on a game drive and stop at a waterhole where they watch a pride of lions. We are then introduced to AfriCat, a non-profit organization whose aim is to conserve and protect Namibia's large carnivores within their natural habitats. Rudie and Marlice go with some of their rangers and lion monitors to the carcass of a kudu that had been killed by lions. They then visit a rural farmer. One of her cows was attacked and injured by lions, fortunately the cow survived the attack. Rudie and Marlice then talk to Mesag Saal on how the concession works, local people become landowners, they conserve the fauna and flora and generate money through tourism. Marlice and Rudie then fly to Harnas, Marlice's mother's wildlife sanctuary to fetch a lion that must go to Naankuse. The lion is a big male that forms part of a group of 3 in an enclosure. Rudie drives into the enclosure with his dart gun while Marlice tries to lure the other 2 lions away with food. The darting goes without a glitch and once the lion is asleep the other 2 are lured into another enclosure and he is loaded onto a vehicle and they drive off to Naankuse. The episode ends with a beautiful sequence of lions roaring at dusk.
