Steven Rinella

But it's like the government has said that this 2 million acres doesn't get developed, and they make money off it.

They're able to make money off it by allowing hunting to occur on the place.

and so we're out in this like two million acre thing we're the only people around we would we would some days do 100 miles you know 100 miles of pickups on just on just trails these guys hack out through the woods you know and you see just crazy stuff but yeah there's guys out on the landscape you know you'd run into the honey season was just finishing up so there's guys out doing honey but we were with trackers

In this part of Tanzania, in eastern Tanzania, I spent some time in Maasai land, which is the Maasai tribe, where we were was like Bantu peoples.

But we were with trackers.

And the trackers they use are, by and large, poachers that they caught.

So they'll catch poachers.

And if they're young and ambitious and good, they'll be like, listen, you know, you should come see us.

So the two trackers that I was hanging out with were both people that were brought up as poachers.

They were in the bushmeat trade, snaring and hunting with homemade guns and poison arrows.

Wow.

In order to sell bushmeat.

And these dudes are now trackers and, um,

Yeah, it's, it's unbelievable.

I said to our guy, one time, the professional hunter, who in some ways, in some ways acts as a liaison between you and the trackers, you know, like they.

The trackers carry a lot of weight.

Their opinion matters immensely.

And you're there.

You don't know shit.

And the professional hunter, he's meant to be like, he understands you, the white dude, and what you're hoping to accomplish.