Poachers in South Africa are killing rhinos for their horns at a faster rate than ever before.
Wildlife filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert say South Africa has reached a "tipping point".
"Rhinos are being poached faster than they can breed," says Dereck. "That's a very, very dangerous milestone."
More than 30 years ago, the Jouberts abandoned city life and took to the African bush to create groundbreaking films for National Geographic – now they say they are witnessing the decimation of a species.
Every seven hours a rhino is killed in Africa, its horn sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars as a powerful aphrodisiac.
"[Poachers] hack off a rhino horn when the poor rhino is still alive, and it's just left there to die," says Beverly.
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