The Game Changer

July 14, 2014
30 min
Season 19 - Episode 24: The Game Changer

Season 19 - Episode 24: The Game Changer

Australian Story - Backdrop

Overview

This week's program tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a former wildlife ranger and the renowned British conservationist Dame Jane Goodall. Their special connection has become a 'game changer' for the men and women on the front line of the increasingly bloody global war against poachers. Ten years ago Sean Willmore set up an organisation called the Thin Green Line to 'protect the protectors' – wildlife rangers who were being killed and maimed. But it was only when Willmore crawled from his his sick bed on the off chance of meeting Dame Jane in Melbourne that the real breakthroughs came. Now he has the ear of world leaders, rock stars and British Royal Princes...

Episode Information

TV Show

Australian Story

Season

Season 19

Episode Number

24

Air Date

July 14, 2014

Runtime

30 minutes