Poacher is a new Amazon Prime show. What’s it about?
Via Wikipedia:
Poacher is an Indian Malayalam-language crime drama television miniseries created by Richie Mehta. The series stars Nimisha Sajayan, Roshan Mathew, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Kani Kusruti, Ranjitha Menon,and Maala Parvathi. It is about forest officials who uncover an ivory poaching ring. The first three episodes premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
The trailer looks lush and intriguing and atmospheric. A voiceover tells us, “There hasn’t been elephant poaching in Kerala since early ‘90s,” and so it seems that based on a true story, we’ve got some poacher-hunting hunting.
So it just might be the hunters are gonna become the hunted, know what I’m saying?
In any event, this looks like a high end Indian production, and it’s really cool that in this streaming age, we in the U.S. can get our eyes in front of these kinds of shows via services like Amazon Prime.
Poacher: when and where is it on?
The first season of Poacher will be released on Amazon Prime on Friday, February 23rd, 20024.
How would you go about catching illegal poachers?
I imagined that I was a park ranger at a wildlife park, and I challenged myself with this question. Here’s some ideas that I came up with.
- Release the drones: Deploy a fleet of drones equipped with high-res cameras and thermal imaging technology to patrol the park from above. The drones monitor and detect suspicious activity, which allows us to catch those poachers red-handed.
- Let’s go undercover… but not like you think: We get disguised as wildlife to infiltrate poaching operations, because that’s really gonna fool ‘em, right. We then can gather intelligence, track poachers, and even disrupt illegal activities from the inside… though hopefully not like inside inside a wild animal’s belly. Because that would defeat the purpose and stuff.
- National Holographic: We install lifelike holographic displays of endangered animals in strategic locations throughout the park. These holograms mimic the movements and behaviors of real animals, thus luring the baddie poachers into thinking they’ve found their target. Once the poachers approach, we poach them, know what I’m saying? Oh yeah… I used that same joke up top in this piece, sorry.
- DNA gotchas: We set up DNA traps disguised as bait to catch poachers in the act. These traps release a harmless dye or scent marker upon activation (we use good science for all of this stuff, don’t worry), tagging the poachers with a unique DNA signature that can be used as evidence in court. The element of surprise and the fear of being caught red-handed will totally deter would-be poachers from attempting illegal activities. But if not, we got ‘em.