Silent Forests
Climate & Environment
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1h 49m
Over half of Central Africa's forest elephants have been killed by poachers in a decade. This intimate portrait follows a female eco-guard, a grassroots enforcement group, a biologist, a reformed poacher, and an activist into the Congo Basin. They reveal the brutal reality of the global poaching crisis in this under-reported region.
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