The End of the Wild / Saving Africa's Giants with Yao Ming

Yao Ming is a world-renowned NBA basketball star and a hero in his home country of China. Now Ming tackles the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade in Africa, which is being driven by an unprecedented demand in South East Asia and China. As Ming travels across the African savannah to see elephants and rhinos in the wild, he learns about the tragedies of poaching. He visits some of the last of the northern white rhinos; a species that has been poached to the edge of extinction. Yao meets anti-poaching teams who regularly risk their lives to protect these species. The butchered carcasses of the daily poaching victims drives home the uncertain future for the orphaned babies left behind. Yao Ming’s journey to Africa is life changing for him. But can one man convince one billion countrymen to stop the slaughter?