Green Cops

A new six-part series following the people trying to save the environment. In this episode, we travel to Indonesia where organised international criminals have been fishing illegally in Indonesian waters for years. But the Minister of Marine and fisheries has a novel approach to dealing with them - blowing up and sinking their ships. We join her on patrol.

A new six-part series following the people trying to save the environment. In South Africa, indigenous animals are being hunted by armed poachers. Land owners have come together to curb this cruel practice by assembling a task force to protect the local flora and fauna. They are all are committed to preserving these extraordinary South African national parks.

We investigate the mafia's illegal traffic in toxic waste in Italy, an industry worth billions of euros a year, with many businesses happy to pay the camorra to dump toxic waste in the countryside rather than disposing of it safely. Decades of illegal dumping haven't just poisoned the land and water. Child cancer rates are unusually high and the air is toxic.

Every year, three to five tonnes of gold are illegally extracted from the subsoil in French Guyana, spilling hundreds tons of toxic mercury into the soil and streams Over a thousand soldiers work in the forest searching and destroying clandestine mines. But the illegal migrants who work there have little option but to keep sinking new mines.

In the past 30 years, nearly half the animals of Cameroon have disappeared. Matthieu, a former special forces soldier, now patrols the National Park of Boubandjida, waging war against the traffickers. The most feared are riders from Sudan. In 2012, they massacred 300 elephant and in the past year, they killed six Cameroonian soldiers and two trackers.

Every hour in Colombia, 25 hectares of forest are destroyed. Colombia is home to almost 10% the world's species and is the second most biologically diverse country on Earth. But this extraordinary heritage is now threatened by the disappearance of its primary forests. We accompany the soldiers trying to protect the Colombian Amazon and see how illegally logged timber enters the global market.