Overview

• The fourth episode of the six-part Guardians series premiered on June 12 across BBC Earth’s YouTube, social channels and select UK cinemas.
• Prince William opens the film by commending the courage and dedication of Kruger National Park rangers in one of conservation’s most urgent frontline battles.
• Head ranger Cathy Dreyer leads round-the-clock patrols through park territories to intercept poaching gangs and secure critical habitats.
• Conservation officers Felicia and Lucas feature as caregivers raising orphaned white and black rhino calves abandoned by illegal hunters.
• Experts warn that with roughly 2,000 white and 250 black rhinos remaining, unchecked poaching could drive the species to extinction within decades.