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TITLES: DATELINE
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1.01
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EXT. DARTMOOR ZOO – DAY
Tall grass shudders, beneath a thick, green canopy.
Something’s moving through the grass… deliberate… deadly.
TEXT ON SCREEN: ZOO TROUBLES
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SOT:
Birds fleeing. Grass parting.
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1.02
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EXT. DARTMOOR ZOO – CONT’D
A JAGUAR appears from the grass. Muscular. Lethal. Its eyes confident,
calculating. An apex predator who knows it.
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VO: In the brush, a powerful predator stalks its
prey.
VO: The Cheetah, native to Africa, is the world’s
fastest animal.
VO But there are now just 7000 of these graceful
cats left in the wild.
VO: Poaching and habitat destruction could wipe them out in a generation.
VO: But we’re a long way from Africa.
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1.03
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DRONE – DEVON – DAY
The quaint, British countryside. The exact opposite of jungles of South
America.
TEXT ON SCREEN: Dartmoor,
Zoo.
TEXT ON SCREEN:
Devon, England.
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1.04
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EXT. DARTMOOR ZOO - DAY.
VARIOUS SHOTS: TIGERS, OTTERS, MONKEYS, BIRDS and Zookeepers tending to them.
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VO: Dartmoor Zoo is a 30-acre, charity run facility
in England's south-west.
SOT: A Zebra HUFFS!
VO: Here, 152 species of exotic… endangered… even native animals are on
public display.
SOT: A tiger GROWLS!
VO: But this year, at the height of tourist season…
the zoo is empty.
VO: COVID-19 has closed all of Britain’s 338 zoos and is threatening their very
existence.
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1.05
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INT/EXT. CAR – DAY.
EVAN heads towards the zoo.
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EVAN:
PTC: COVID has killed more
than 40,000 people in Britain. It's been the biggest economic shock since the
second world war. And as the country gradually comes out of lockdown,
businesses are struggling to stay afloat because of the restrictions that are
still in place.
VO: As I head to Dartmoor in early
July, zoos have already been shut down for five months…
VO: …and they’ve just been ordered to remain closed indefinitely.
VO: I want to find out if zoos can survive and if the UK actually wants them
to.
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WE
BOUGHT A ZOO
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02.00
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EXT. DARTMOOR ZOO – DAY.
A LION’s roars bellows across the zoo. We find…
BEN & EVAN standing in front of the TIGER enclosure, listening to the animal’s
call.
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SOT: A lion ROOOOAAARRSSS!!!
EVAN:
SOT: That
is something!
BEN:
SOT: That's amazing.
Isn't it? You can hear it for seven miles Apparently. It’s actually a warning
to other lions, to say that this land is occupied by lions already. So you
have to get used to that if you sleep here.
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2.01
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EXT. DARTMOOR ZOO - VARIOUS
BEN & EVAN walk around the zoo – looking at the animals in their enclosures.
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VO:
Former journalist Benjamin Mee is the owner of Dartmoor Zoo.
SOT: Ben, that’s it! Good Girl.
VO: Ben moved here in 2006 with his wife Katherine and two, small children.
SOT BEN: Come on Shana. There she
goes.
VO:
Despite having no zoo keeping experience, Ben managed to turn the failing zoo
into a conservation centre for exotic species…
SOT: BEN: I always wanted
to have zebras.
VO: …and one of the Britain’s favorite animal attractions.
BEN: SOT: We
bought the zoo because it was going to close down, and the animals were gong
to be destroyed. And we thought, well that just can’t happen. It would have
been like a little light going out in this region. And now, it really means
everything I guess. It’s my home and those animals are part of my family.
SOT: Ben. He’s in astonishingly good shape.
VO: Rescuing the zoo, saved hundreds of animals… But Ben’s wife Katherine, didn’t
get to see it.
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2.02
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STILLS: Ben, Katherine and children at the zoo.
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BEN: We got the place in October. And her tumor came back in December
of that year, 2006. And it was inoperable. And it was March 31st that she,
that she died.
BEAT.
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2.03
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EXT. DARTMOOR ZOO – DAY.
BEN walks around the zoo.
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BEN: It was a very tough time. But I never was never
even a second for ever we should stop this project. It would have been a
disaster and made everything worse.
VO: After losing his wife to cancer,
Ben wrote a book about his experiences at Dartmoor… then everything changed.
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2.04
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FILE FOOTAGE: We Bought A Zoo.
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SOT: MATT DAMON: What’s so complicated
about this place anyway?
SOT:
A lion ROARS!!!
VO: The book inspired the film, We bought a Zoo
starring Matt Damon – as Ben - and Scarlett Johansson.
SOT: SCAR JO: We need someone who can really take charge
of this place, otherwise we, and these animals are gone
VO: The film turned Dartmoor Zoo into
a star attraction.
SOT: WOMAN: Thanks for saving the animals.
VO: But thanks to COVID, the real-life Ben may not get
a Hollywood Ending.
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2.05
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EXT. DARTMOOR ZOO – DAY.
BEN & EVAN walk and talk.
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SOT: BEN: It’s been shut since March. And we’re just in such an uncertain
period and that’s the killer.
VO:
Without customers, Ben is rapidly going broke
BEN:
SOT: It’s incredible, the cost of running a zoo are just monumental. My next
book is going to be called, never buy a zoo. It’s just not funny, it’s not
what people think at all. At the
moment with the animal feed and essential keeping staff it’s running at about
11 and a half thousand pounds a week at the moment which is pared right down
normally it’s more like forty. The COVID has been really scary because the
bills keep coming, you’ve got massive fixed costs and there’s absolutely no
money at all through the normal channels.
EVAN: SOT: What happens if you can’t open within say a few weeks?
BEN: SOT: The worst-case
scenario if they don’t allow us to open is, we’re back to that. We would have
to euthanize the endangered animals. And all of the animals. Closing down a
zoo suddenly, there are too many animals to rehouse. Every, other zoo is in a
similar situation, even some of the big zoos would have to euthanize all of
the animals and we can’t let that happen.
VO: There’s been talk of a government bail-out for zoos but as of July, it
hasn’t come.
VO: Britain’s furlough scheme helps pay 80 percent of wages – but it does not
cover other costs like veterinary bills or feeding.
SOT: A rodent gobbles capsicum.
VO:
Ben insured the zoo for – of all things – pandemics – but the insurer is
balking.
BEN: SOT: The insurance company has said they’re not
going to pay any claims, even the ones that they can see are valid. And it’s really a holding tactic
so a lot of people will go out of business and won’t claim. We’ve paid our
premium, we’re likely to go under if we don’t get the pay out and they are
saying no.
EVAN: SOT: It doesn’t seem right.
BEN: SOT: It really doesn’t seem right at all.
VO: With no formal support, COVID looked set to destroy Dartmoor
zoo… then something incredible happened.
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2.06
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FILE FOOTAGE: FUND RAISING
FEEL GOODERY.
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SOT:
PRESENTER: Dartmoor zoo needs to find 11 thousand pounds a week to survive the
COVID-19 Crisis.
VO: Ben launched an online fund-raising campaign.
VO: Despite their own financial stress, members of the
local community donated enough money to keep the zoo running a few more
months.
SOT: JOSH: So far I am on day 10 of climbing mount
Everest
VO: Josh White had locals sponsor him to climb the height of Everest on the
family stairs. He raised twenty-thousand pounds.
SOT: JOSH: We are definitely going to Dartmoor zoo as soon as this lock down
is over.
BEN: We were amazed and
impressed with the amount of public support,
BEN: it just makes you think people out
there care about these animals and this place it is a special place we are
trying hard to do the right thing and people appreciate that I’m just so
grateful
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2.07
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EXT. DARTMOOR ZOO – DE
BRIEFING DAY.
BEN & EVAN arrive gather with the other keepers and discuss the results
of the drill.
Long history of the zi.
Many modern zoos have
raised standard and are engaging in active breeding programs.
But some say that’s not enough. And
that has some high profile detractors…
We
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VO: But with zoos closed indefinitely, Ben knows the donations will only last
so long.
VO: The reality is, even in non-COVID times, charity-run facilities like Dartmoor struggle to survive each year.
VO: It begs the question, if zoos operate so close to the brink, should they exist
at all?
SOT: BEN: It’s easy to say that animals don’t belong in cages and I
agree in general, but the wild isn’t safe for these animals. Every part of
the globe, human incursion is causing habitat destruction. Modern zoos act
like a refugee camp for animals. The Siberian tiger, there are 500 in Siberia
and 500 in zoos. That’s it, there’s 1000 of these animals left in the world.
That’s a significant proportion of the population - waiting for the wild to
be a fit place for them
SOT: BEN: For me the key thing for zoos is that you are contributing to preserving
endangered animals and protecting them for future generations.
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WE
SHUTDOWN A ZOO / BORN FREE
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3.01
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FILE FOOTAGE:
A promo video for London Zoo from the 80’s.
FILE FOOTAGE: Super 8
footage of British Zoos.
FILE FOOTAGE: A TV
commercial for Woburn Zoo from the 70’s.
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3.02
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FILE FOOTAGE:
BORN FREE THE MOVIE.
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3.03
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FILE FOOTAGE:
Actual Born Free Charity releasing a lion.
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3.04
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SKYPE: CHAT with BORN FREE
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CHRIS: there’s quite a pervasive attitude that's
emerged in, in, uh, recent years, um, this, this belief and this perception
that zoos are a force for good for conservation. The trouble is when you
start to scratch the surface of these claims. They don't really stack up.
EVAN: What does that mean?
CHRIS: The proportion of finances within the zoo
industry that are going towards conservations is remarkably small.
in the UK, on average they were spending somewhere between 4% to 7% of their
turnover on conservation in the wild. I would suggest that that is a pretty
poor return on investment. If these zoos are conservation organizations.
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3.05
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FILE FOOTAGE:
Animals in captive breeding programs and British zoos.
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EVAN: Don’t zoos provide a really important role in helping
these endangered animals survive?
CHRIS: So you're talking about animals that are
part of captive breeding programs, so-called for conservation, but they're on
display to the visiting public thousands and thousands of miles away from
their natural home and their natural habitat, possibly in a completely
different temperature, different humidity to what they always would have
evolved to live in. Captive breeding, where it does have a value is in the country of origin of the
animal as near to the animal's natural habitat as possible, not the other
side of the world in a metropolitan zoo,
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3.06
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FILE FOOTAGE:
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EVAN: But the environment for these wild animals is being so damage that they
save captive breeding is like a lifeboat, like a refugee centre
for these animals because their habitat is under such threat.
CHRIS: the analogy
you give of a lifeboat is, is, is an interesting one. Because lifeboats are
not supposed to float on forevermore. They're supposed to go somewhere else.
They're supposed to save things and save people and get them off.
But if we're not tackling the threat and we're just relying on captive
populations, we're stuck in this awful status quo where we've got captured
populations of animals with nowhere to go. And that is, in my opinion, a
that's a defeat that's, we've lost the battle once we're In that situation.
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3.07
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RETURN TO: EVAN interview with CHRIS. aa
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EVAN: So what do you think should happen to zoos?
CHRIS: We should be
looking at a way of phasing out zoos. Humanely, strategically over time, not
just slamming the door shut. But reassess the value of zoos.
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3.08
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EXT. DARTMOOR ZOO – DAY
BEN responds to Born Frees
Criticism.
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BEN:
SOT: It makes me sad cause I got into this whole thing as an animal rights
activist, for some reason the animal rights people think animals don’t belong
in cages, well think about it, some of them do. There are so many species
going extinct all the time and they’re not going extinct in zoos you know.
Those animals really do belong in those enclosures because that is how we can
breed a safe population to supplement the wild population which is hopelessly
diminished and that is something you can’t do without having captive animals.
VO: As conservationists and
zookeepers question the future of animals in captivity, there’s an equally
urgent threat facing british animals in the wild.
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3.09
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FILE FOOTAGE: WATERSHIP DOWN – Animated Rabbits are gassed and wiped out.
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WILD
AID
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4.01
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DRONE: A deer fawn is stuck in a fence. It screams and writhes in panic. A
distressing image.
TEXT ON SCREEN: Surrey, ENGLAND
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SIMON
SOT: We’ve just had a call from a local park, they’ve rung us to tell us they
have a deer trapped in a fence, it has tried to go through the fence and got
it’s hips stuck, depending on how long it has been there, depends on whether
it will be a rescue release or something more sinister going on
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4.02
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FILE FOOTAGE: A compact car arrives on scene. A man in his 60’s emerges from
it. This is SIMON COWELL… he approaches the deer.
FILE FOOTAGE: Simon retrieves two, large rectangular aluminium sheets from
his car. He returns to the deer and wedges the pieces between the fawn’s hind
legs and the fence
FILE FOOTAGE: The slippery aluminium allows the fawn to wiggle free.
FILE FOOTAGE: Simon watches the deer run into a heavy thicket
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SIMON: SOT: Hi sweet one
VO:
This is Simon Cowell, founder of the Wildlife Aid Foundation, a charity which
rescues English animals in distress.
SIMON: SOT: There’s a good girl, come on then. Alright go on, off you go.
SIMON: We get rescues
all day, every day and often all night as well // It’s a hard slog but. you
know, you just got the satisfaction knowing if you hadn't been there, if you
hadn't of done it, that animal might have died.
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4.03
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EXT/INT. WILDLIFE AID HQ –
DAY.
EVAN arrives at a country house. Its appearance belies what’s inside. SIMON
greets EVAN and shows him around.
VARIOUS ANGLES: Reception. Call centre. Enclosures etc…
SIMON looks in on some
baby ducks.
SIMON CHATS with EV near an enclosure.
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VO: Wildlife Aid HQ, is a repurposed manor nestled
in the Surrey countryside.
SIMON: SOT: Welcome
to the insane world of wildlife rehabilitation.
VO: Part operations centre… Part
veterinary hospital, from here, Simon and 375 volunteers rescue and
rehabilitate injured animals from around the country.
SIMON: SOT: The
whole point is to get it well as quick as we can and get it out. What
we never do is contain an animal. My big thing is, you know, to me the best
cage is an empty cage. Um, and if it's got to be in a cage it's for the
shortest time possible. And then he goes out and has a properly natural life
in its natural habitat.
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INT. WILD LIFE AID – DAY.
Volunteers rush about.. It’s very busy.
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SOT: Phone’s ringing.
VO: During COVID, case numbers are at their highest
in 40 years.
SOT: CALLER: It’s been incredibly busy. Everyone’s
out walking. So the animals are now being found. So we’ve been getting hundreds
more animals than we normally would.
VO: Volunteers answer a distress call every four minutes.
SOT: Is he now trapped in the
garden?
VO: While vets treat over 80 injured animals a day.
EVAN: What sort of animals?
VOLUNTEER: SOT: Today we’ve got,
5 baby hedgehogs, a blue tit, dunnark, a bull finch
and a pigeon.
EVAN: SOT: And It’s only 11 o’clock. So it’s going to be a long day.
VOLUNTEER: 11 o’clock so it’s going to be a long day.
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4.04
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INT. WILD AID ICU – DAY.
A vet nurse tends to 5, small hedgehogs.
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SIMON: SOT: How many were there? Five.
VET 2: SOT:
Five, yeah.
VO:
In the ICU, vets tend to five baby hedgehogs, rescued from dogs this morning,
in a local backyard.
SIMON: SOT: What happened?
SOT; VET: he had a little patch of skin on his back that was getting all
abscessed and horrible so one of the vets took that and cleaned it all up and
put bandage over the top to stop it
getting any worse, as you can see he is quite lively, so he’s doing okay
VO: For the team, every hedgehog saved is a small
victory.
VO: Because of habitat destruction, the hedgehog, could go extinct within the
decade.
SIMON: SOT: The rate we’re building, things that
were a woodland five years ago is now a housing estate and I find that quite
tragic. There’s more roads they are putting more dangerous chemicals down,
taking away green space, everything we do actually has a detrimental affect
on wildlife, apart from those of us doing conservation
SIMON: SOT: As far as wild life aids concerned we’re like a hospital doing a patchup and repair job. And it matters because we don’t
want to lose too many of these species, but we need mankind to realise the importance of them and that everything has a
place in nature.
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4.05
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INT. WILD LIFE AID – MEDIA
ROOM.
EVAN tours and VIDEOS of
animals in distress play on the screen.
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VO:
Part of Wild Life Aid’s mission is to get that message out to the British
people.
VO: So they film many of their call outs and post them online.
SOT: SIMON: We do loads of these rescues. All sorts
of animals get stuck in football nets in the gardens. Tennis nets and other
nets. And it will kill them.
VO:
Simon tells us, viewing numbers have gone up during COVID. For Wild Life Aid
it’s an encouraging sign.
SOT SIMON: I’m hoping that COVID has made us see
that. It’s really important to have habitat and wild animals in the right
places, and to not abuse them. Because if we do start abusing things and
doing it wrong, we will get pandemics. Everything has its place in this planet, sadly man
has overtaken too much.
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4.06
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EXT. WILD LIFE AID – GARDENS – DAY
Simon checks in on his animals. A soft coda.
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SOT SIMON: we came onto a planet which has been very
successfully running for around 5 billion years and in the last 200 years we
have really done it immense damage. And you know, we need the planet, the
planet does not need us, it really doesn’t it could function really well
without us. So we need it to be in place and working and I think we should be
far more sensitive to all the creatures that we share this planet with, as a
species, we should know better.
VO: If the UK is to save its native species it must re-think
its relationship with nature and repair the damage done by humans.
VO: Thankfully a way to quickly and sustainably do just that has been found
in an unlikely place.
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KNEPP
ESTATE
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5.01
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DRONE – KNEPP CASTLE – DAY.
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5.02
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EXT. KNEPP CASTLE – DAY.
At an acceptable, social distance EVAN meets with ISABELLA.
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VO: I’ve come to the grounds of a 12th
century castle to meet Isabella Tree.
ISABELLEA: SOT: Hello there.
EVAN: SOT:
Hi I won’t come close. How are you?
This is very magnificent.
VO: A former travel writer, Issy helps
her husband Charlie run the estate.
VO: Traditionally, a wheat and dairy
farm, the land has been in Charlie’s family for generations.
VO: But when the couple took over, centuries of
overuse, had left the land infertile, and they were unable to continue
farming.
SOT:
ISSY: We were ploughing this land. We were drenching it in chemicals and it just
couldn’t rebound. By the late 1990’s we were 1.5 million in debt and thinking
of other things we could do with the land rather than battling against it all
the time.
VO: Desperate, Issy and Charlie
embarked on a radical experiment.
VO: They stopped farming, reseeded their land with wild grasses and reintroduced
native cow, deer and pony species – and then let everything run wild.
ISABELLA: the idea was to, to just see if we could kickstart biodiversity,
get systems working, again, get processes functioning. And it was a complete revelation.
VO: What happened next may change the future of British conservation and
zoos, forever.
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AD BREAK
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KNEEP ESTATE – PART II
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6.01
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EXT. KNEEP ESTATE – DAY.
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VO: Centuries of farming at Knepp estate, in
Horsham England had left its fields infertile and the farm on the brink of
collapse.
SOT: An engine starts and stalls.
CHARLIE: SOT: Ohh. God that didn't sound so good. Did it? Okay
VO: But a radical experiment by owners Charlie and Isabella has done
something incredible.
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6.03
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INT. EXT. KNEEP SAFARI – VEHICLE
Charlie & Izzy talk to
Evan they drive through the Knepp estate.
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VO: Kneep Estate, is a land transformed…Or more accurately
transforming
SUBTITLED EV SOT: I’m half expecting to see a rhino
VO: In just two decades 3.5 thousand acres of once infertile farmland
is now teaming with plants and wildlife.
CHARLIE: SOT: DRIVE: So the excitement here is that each field
we go through you will see this really complex assemblage of plants coming
back into this landscape. And that’s, as Issy always calls it, rocket fuel for nature.
VO: Allowing native
flora and fauna to grow wild, has created entirely new habitats, which has
essentially healed the land.
VO: Native, long-horn cattle are now farmed sustainably, and are key drivers
in a conservation project unlike anything else in Britain.
EVAN Because they're here and the way they eat,
they're helping to create the environment.
CHARLIE Well without, without these big animals
roaming around this landscape, it would, just turn into close as can be
Woodland, and which is very specious poor. It's the battle between
vegetation, succession, and animals, and this fight is going on. And that's
what you're seeing. And that's what you're seeing the dynamics of out here.
And that's why you're getting all this life back in.
VO: The process called re-wilding has transformed Knepp
Estate into an incredible incubator for life.
VO:
species long extinct on the British Isles have returned and are thriving
here.
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6.04
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EXT. INT. SAFARI VEHICLE –
STORKS NEST -DAY
The bus pulls to an abrupt stop as Charlie points out a nest in some nearby
trees.
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CHARLIE: SOT: so I’ve stopped just here because up in that oak
tree there we have white storks, one of them came from France, one of them
came from our pen, built a nest here and they’ve got one chick this is the first-time storks have nested
and bred in Britain for 604 years… we are bringing back storks to Britain.
We’ll get out and have a look…
EVAN: SOT: Why were they wiped out 600 years ago?
ISABELLA: SOT: Isabella:
we’re pretty sure they eaten, they appear as fare on medieval banquet menus
but whit storks became a symbol of insurgence and so after the restoration of
king Charles the second in Britain, the royalists wanted to get rid of those
white storks because they were worried it would forment
descent against the king again
EVAN: SOT: Amazing. And here it is in an Oak tree
ISABELLA SOT: in a good old English oak tree
EVAN: SOT: And
it's good old English. Leading the, the nature insurrection
ISABELLA SOT: that’s exactly right
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6.05
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EXT. KNEPP ESTATE – DAY.
DAY WALKERS, hike through the grounds, stopping to admire different species.
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VO: With storks leading the charge, other lost and endangered species, are
now flourishing here.
VO: The numbers of Peregrine Falcon, bees, beetles, the purple emperor
butterfly and the endangered turtle dove have increased dramatically.
VO: So too, the number of tourists.
VO: Due to overwhelming interest, Knepp now hosts
day tours and farm stays - Eco tourism transforming it into a type of living,
self-sustaining zoo.
SOT: CHARLIE; I had
no idea that there’d be so much interest in nature. We’ve had a terrible year
with COVID-19. But in general terms we have 4000-5000 people coming to see
this wildlife.
EVAN SOT: 4-5000 a year?
SORT CHARLIE: And
we’re 100% booked out a year in advance. Now with tourism and meat production
we’ve now got a really quite profitable and stable enterprise.
VO: Kneep
Estate is proof that farming, conservation and tourism can co-exist and be
financially viable.
VO: With several, British, land owners
deciding to re-wild parts of their farms too, could the Knepp
experiment be a future, alternative to zoos and the answer to the
conservation crisis?
SOT: If you want to get truly functioning nature again. You’ve gotta let go. We’re not talking about re-wilding the
whole planet. But if we want to conserve the systems on which life on this
planet depends, re-wilding is a way that we can show how to do that. And we
can do it very rapidly. Within 20 years we’ve had these incredible successes.
Nature has the answers we just have to a big mind shift and move into that
process.
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BACK
TO DARTMOOR
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7.01
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EXT. DARTMOOR – FRONT GATE – DAY.
A small crowd has gathered at the gate. It’s opening time. Punters walk in
collecting tickets the streaming into the park.
Hundreds of men, women and
children – families – couples – individuals walk the park, excitedly ogling
the animals.
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EVAN:
Hi Ben how are you?
BEN:
Hi there Evan how’ve you been? Good to see you, and you?
EVAN:
how have things been?
BEN:
yeah, not so bad thanks.
VO: A month after our first trip to Dartmoor,
there’s been a huge mindshift here too.
VO: British
zoos, have been allowed to reopen with a cap on visitors and strict, social
distancing rules.
BEN
SOT: So there was a point we were told there was no chance of zoos reopening for the foreseeable future and then
four days later they said you can
open tomorrow and things have come with a vengeance, it’s been really
heartwarming
VO: Ben still hasn’t seen the insurance payout but he did get a small grant
from the government as part of a 100 million pound bailout for zoos.
SOT: BEN: Most
days at the moment are sold out, we only have 300 places a day but at the
moment projections are that we will survive this year, which is great, which
is all you can ask for.
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CONCLUSION
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VARIOUS SHOTS: Hero
profile shots of animals, and then the characters we’ve met during the film.
CODA:
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SOT: KID: We’re
going to see the animals!
VO: COVID-19 may have shown the precarious nature of
zoos, but for now, Dartmoor seems safe.
VO: For visitors still carrying the scars of the
pandemic, the zoo is proving a way to help them heal
SOT: EVIE: Oh my god. I just feel so blessed right now.
VO: Zoo regular Evie has schizophrenia and hears voices –
SOT: EVIE: Oh my god you are filling me with such joy now.
VO: For her, the chance to return to Dartmoor is a
lifeline.
EVIE: During
lockdown, I was frightened, the voices were saying really nasty things. But when
I’m around these guys, it slowly just slips away and that’s why I count this
a privilege.
EVIE: Hey, how are
you?
BEN: really well
VO: For Ben, its yet another reason why Britain and the world still needs
zoos.
BEN: it’s a magical
place, it’s not just about here is a lion and please buy an ice cream, we are
trying to protect animals and their environment and help people, that to me
is the primary function of modern zoos.
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NEXT TIME.
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VO:
Next week on Dateline, we go to the Greek island of Lesbos to meet the
locals caught in a battle between welcoming tourists and welcoming asylum
seekers.
VO: And up next, The Feed.
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