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Head First: July 30

Sabour Bradley embarks on his most daring episode this season, in a war against rhino poachers.

2014-07-29_0017Sabour Bradley embarks on his most daring, and engaging, episode of Head First so far this season when he is deep in Zimbabwe with an Australian using paramilitary techniques in the protection of rhinos from poachers.

It is sometimes dangerous work, not just from poachers carrying weapons, but walking through a jungle with rhinos, lions, buffalos and hyenas.

Head First returns for a second series and Sabour Bradley is back to take you on a wild ride into the outlandish lives of everyday Australians.

There’s a war on animals happening in Africa right now, waged by well-armed poachers and funded by international criminal syndicates. If left unchecked it will mean the extinction of the Black Rhino by 2025.

The war has now even reached our shores with European police naming Australia as a key destination on the rhino horn black market.

Conservationists have decided to fight back using the same military tactics employed by the poachers – and one of the men at the vanguard of this movement is an Australian.

Ex-Commando Damien Mander moved to Zimbabwe in 2009. He found a huge poaching problem and only a handful of rangers, so he started training them using military techniques.

Sabour heads to Zimbabwe to join Damien and his anti-poaching unit. He’s going to live, eat and work with the rangers for a week as they defend the rhino during one of the most dangerous times of the year.

On the day Sabour arrives, fresh poacher footprints are discovered inside the reserve and Damien believes they are planning an imminent attack on his animals.

The next week is a race against time to find the poachers before they take down a rhino. It’s filled with action, danger and suspense and ends in a battle that pits Damien, Sabour and the rangers against an enemy intent on blood.

8:30pm Tuesday ABC.

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