Racing Extinction Page #4

of... They have a camera

sitting around their neck,

and most people think you

have to put it up to your eye

to look through it and to shoot.

And it's actually a video camera,

and it's rolling the whole time.

So many.

And this is the Jaws,

movie Jaws?

Don't push it too much, Shawn.

Okay, cool. Very cool.

I don't know about you. That's the

most fins I've ever, ever seen.

How did you find out

about this?

Facebook, basically.

I mean, colleagues, mates...

We just walked straight in, basically.

Wow.

How long were you there?

Ten, 1 5 minutes.

You did all this

in ten, 1 5 minutes?

Oh, yeah, mate.

Yeah.

Are we almost there, Paul?

Yeah, so, it's the next block.

I didn't think that

the illegal-wildlife trade

would be so overt.

You can go down streets,

and every other shop will be

full of endangered creatures.

Look at this one right here.

It's not just shark fins.

It's just about

everything endangered

in the world is for sale there.

With the explosion

of demand in China

for shark-fin soup,

it was estimated

that 250,000 sharks

are caught for the fin trade

every single day.

Probably no other species

illustrates what's going on in

the oceans right now

better than sharks.

Sharks predate dinosaurs.

They survived four

mass-extinction events.

And just this one generation

that I've been alive,

we've cut down their ranks

about 90%.

I was following

a group of shark finners

in Indonesia, and they were

moving around camp to camp.

And, then, one morning,

I saw something reflecting

off in the coral reef

in the shallow water.

And what I discovered

was just horrific.

There's this beautiful

tawny nurse shark,

but it had all its fins cut off.

And it was trying to swim,

but it couldn't swim.

And it was heartbreaking,

'cause it's like... This is

what the reality is.

This is the thing that nobody gets.

Now, are we gonna get... Any

luck with us getting in there?

Okay.

Shawn has an interpreter.

I don't want to say her name,

but she's been doing

undercover work in China

for several decades.

The first place she took us

was a place

that they couldn't ever

get into before.

Basically, the Walmart

of the endangered-species trade

in Hong Kong.

Over the years,

I've actually worked really hard

to get into this facility.

So has Paul

and so has his friends.

And we've managed to maybe

step in the door for 30 seconds.

Hey!

What's wrong?

His staff would come out

and push us away,

threaten to call the police.

Hands, machete,

kicked out the door,

"don't ever come back."

Here's what we'll do.

We have a car waiting

with all the stuff in it.

I brought along a couple of

colleagues from the Hump bust.

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