Inside Noah's Ark

Most of us imagine African wildlife reserves as untouched wildernesses where animals live freely, protected from human interference. Its how reserves present themselves and how tourists want to see them. The reality is very different. These three one-hour documentaries go where tourists never can, behind the scenes of two iconic reserves: South Africas Pilanesberg National Park and Tswalu Kalahari Reserve. Here, human need, greed, and past mistakes mean wildlife can no longer survive without constant intervention. Animals must be managed, monitored, and moved, more like livestock than truly wild creatures. In effect, these reserves function as vast, carefully controlled zoos. Our guide is charismatic field biologist Gus van Dyk, whose work blends modern science with traditional African knowledge. As he moves from Pilanesberg to Tswalu, van Dyk builds twenty-first-century Noahs Arks, making difficult, often controversial decisions to preserve what remains of nature. Inside Noahs Ark is powerful, character-driven storytelling about saving wildlife by radically intervening in it.