1 00:00:05,839 --> 00:00:13,179 PRESENTS," TAKE ME AWAY. THE SAYING GOES, "YOU'LL KNOW THE NEWFOUNDLANDERS IN HEAVEN; THEY'LL BE THE ONES WHO WANT TO 2 00:00:13,246 --> 00:00:20,620 GO HOME." AND THE ADAGE COMES TO LIFE ON FOGO ISLAND, A 90-SQUARE-MILE PATCHWORK OF TEN MINISCULE 3 00:00:20,687 --> 00:00:28,061 FISHING VILLAGES WHERE CLAPBOARD HOUSES THE COLOR OF JELLY BEANS CLING TO ROCK 400 MILLION YEARS OLD. 4 00:00:28,128 --> 00:00:36,736 AMONG ITS QUIRKS, NEWFOUNDLAND HAS ITS OWN TIME ZONE, HALF AN HOUR AHEAD OF THE MAINLAND. BUT WANDER THROUGH FOGO ISLAND'S 5 00:00:36,803 --> 00:00:44,744 VILLAGES, AND YOU MIGHT AS WELL SET YOUR WATCH BACK TO THE 18th CENTURY. >>> THAT'S THE TEMPLE OF CASTOR 6 00:00:44,811 --> 00:00:53,520 AND POLLUX? THE ROMAN EMPIRE CENTERED AROUND CONQUESTS AND THE OUTSIZED PERSONALITIES OF ITS EMPERORS. 7 00:00:53,586 --> 00:00:59,392 RESEARCH AND ARCHAEOLOGY CONTINUE TO SEARCH FOR RELIABLE EVIDENCE FROM THAT TIME, AND TONIGHT WE'LL INTRODUCE YOU TO 8 00:00:59,459 --> 00:01:05,198 SOME NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST WRITTEN ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST WRITTEN ABOUT, IF NOT MISUNDERSTOOD, EMPERORS OF ALL 9 00:01:05,265 --> 00:01:10,537 TIME -- CALIGULA. >> I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WE ARE SITTING ON THE STEPS THAT CALIGULA MAY HAVE WALKED ON. 10 00:01:10,603 --> 00:01:24,784 IT'S AMAZING. >>> JUST COME AND SIT AT A SUNSET BY THE LAKE, IN THE CENTER OF THIS NATIONAL PARK. 11 00:01:24,851 --> 00:01:35,128 I MEAN, TIME STOPS, AND YOU GET 100 COLORS OF YELLOW AND 100 COLORS OF ORANGE. AND THEN THE DUSK SETS IN. 12 00:01:35,195 --> 00:01:40,667 OH, THERE'S AN ELEPHANT RIGHT THERE. >> IS THERE? >> OH, THERE CERTAINLY IS. 13 00:01:40,733 --> 00:01:47,974 >> I JUST HAVE TO STOP AND SAY HELLO TO THE ELEPHANT. 14 00:01:50,944 --> 00:01:54,881 >>> GOOD EVENING. I'M JON WERTHEIM. WELCOME TO "60 MINUTES PRESENTS." 15 00:01:54,948 --> 00:02:01,254 ON A DISMAL, RAW AND RAINY DAY, WHO HASN'T THOUGHT, EVEN BEGGED, TAKE ME AWAY? TONIGHT, WE'LL DO JUST THAT. 16 00:02:01,321 --> 00:02:09,295 WE'LL TRANSPORT YOU TO ANCIENT ROME, WHERE, THROUGH THE EYES OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS, ANDERSON COOPER VISITS THE UNEARTHED PLEASURE 17 00:02:09,362 --> 00:02:15,668 GARDENS OF THE EMPEROR CALIGULA. THEN, IT'S OFF TO AFRICA WHERE SCOTT PELLEY CHECKS INTO A VERY DIFFERENT PLEASURE GARDEN. 18 00:02:15,735 --> 00:02:22,242 MOZAMBIQUE'S GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK, TRANSFORMED FROM WASTELAND TO WILDLIFE PARADISE THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF AN AMERICAN 19 00:02:22,308 --> 00:02:27,881 ENTREPRENEUR. BUT WE BEGIN TONIGHT AT THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD, AN ISLAND OFF AN ISLAND IN THE 20 00:02:27,947 --> 00:02:34,754 ATLANTIC. A REMOTE JEWEL OF LAND OFF THE COAST OF CANADA, FOGO ISLAND FLOATS IN THE NORTHEAST CORNER 21 00:02:34,821 --> 00:02:40,527 OF THE NORTHEAST PROVINCE OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, THE OUTSTRETCHED RIGHT FINGERTIP OF THIS CONTINENT. 22 00:02:40,593 --> 00:02:47,033 THE PLACE MIGHT BE DROP-DEAD GORGEOUS, BUT IT WASN'T IMMUNE TO THE FATE BEFALLING SO MANY SMALL AND ISOLATED COMMUNITIES 23 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:54,874 IN NORTH AMERICA. ITS ONE AND ONLY INDUSTRY WENT INTO STEEP DECLINE, AND SO, IN TURN, DID ITS POPULATION. 24 00:02:54,941 --> 00:03:00,980 THEN, IN THE EARLY 2000s, A LOCAL RETURNED HOME, FRESH OFF MAKING A FORTUNE IN THE TECH SECTOR. 25 00:03:01,047 --> 00:03:07,086 HER POCKETS WERE DEEP. SO WAS HER DESIRE TO LIFT UP THE PLACE AND BRING PEOPLE BACK. SO, SHE UNLEASHED A SORT OF 26 00:03:07,153 --> 00:03:15,128 ECONOMIC EXPERIMENT. AS WE FIRST TOLD YOU IN 2021, WE TOOK TWO PLANES, A LONG DRIVE AND A FERRY TO REACH FOGO ISLAND 27 00:03:15,194 --> 00:03:26,139 AND CHECK ON THE RESULTS. THE SAYING HERE GOES, "YOU'LL KNOW THE NEWFOUNDLANDERS IN HEAVEN; THEY'LL BE THE ONES WHO 28 00:03:26,205 --> 00:03:34,180 WANT TO GO HOME." AND THE ADAGE COMES TO LIFE ON FOGO ISLAND, A 90-SQUARE-MILE PATCHWORK OF TEN MINISCULE 29 00:03:34,247 --> 00:03:41,087 FISHING HOUSES WHERE CLAPBOARD HOUSES THE COLOR OF JELLY BEANS CLING TO ROCK 400 MILLION YEARS OLD. 30 00:03:41,154 --> 00:03:50,964 AMONG ITS QUIRKS, NEWFOUNDLAND HAS ITS OWN TIME ZONE, HALF AN HOUR AHEAD OF THE MAINLAND. BUT WANDER THROUGH FOGO ISLANDS 31 00:03:51,030 --> 00:03:59,005 VILLAGE AND YOU MIGHT AS WELL SET YOUR WATCH BACK TO THE 18th CENTURY. BACK THEN ALL YOU NEEDED TO GET 32 00:03:59,072 --> 00:04:07,180 BY HERE WAS A PIG, A POTATO PATCH, AND SOMETHING CALLED A PUNT, A SMALL WOODEN FISHING BOAT USED IN PURSUIT OF NORTH 33 00:04:07,246 --> 00:04:16,022 ATLANTIC COD, THE SPECIES THAT ONCE KEPT THIS PLACE AFLOAT. SEEMINGLY EVERY STRUCTURE ON THE ISLAND WAS BUILT IN SERVICE OF 34 00:04:16,089 --> 00:04:25,565 CATCHING AND PRESERVING FISH, WITH ONE GLEAMING EXCEPTION. A $40 MILLION LUXURY INN. PART EDGE OF THE EARTH 35 00:04:25,632 --> 00:04:32,038 DESTINATION, PART ECONOMIC ENGINE ON STILTS, THE INN IS THE BRAINCHILD OF EIGHTH GENERATION FOGO ISLANDER ZITA COBB. 36 00:04:32,105 --> 00:04:38,044 AND LOCALS GAVE HER A FUNNY LOOK WHEN SHE FIRST FLOATED THE IDEA. >> WHAT KIND OF REACTION DID THAT GET? 37 00:04:38,111 --> 00:04:44,684 >> WHY WOULD ANYONE COME HERE? WE LOVE THIS PLACE, BUT IT WASN'T OBVIOUS WHEN, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE FANCY PLACES IN THE 38 00:04:44,751 --> 00:04:49,022 WORLD THAT PEOPLE GO. OUR ASSUMPTION IS EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO WHERE IT'S WARM. >> SOMEONE SUGGESTED TO US IT 39 00:04:49,088 --> 00:04:54,160 LOOKED LIKE A SHIP. >> THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE INN WAS, OBVIOUSLY, A TOPIC OF MUCH CONVERSATION. 40 00:04:54,227 --> 00:05:01,668 I THINK ABOUT IT AS A METAPHOR. IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE FROM HERE AND PEOPLE FROM AWAY. IT'S ABOUT THE FUTURE AND THE 41 00:05:01,734 --> 00:05:06,506 PAST. >> Reporter: THE PAST LOOMS LARGE ON FOGO ISLAND. TO FULLY APPRECIATE THE INN, 42 00:05:06,572 --> 00:05:13,446 EVEN AS A METAPHOR, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND FOGO'S HISTORY. >> IT'S JUST SOMETHING. >> ZITA COBB TOOK US THROUGH 43 00:05:13,513 --> 00:05:19,986 DOZENS OF TINY ISLANDS THAT DOT FOGO'S WATERS TO A PLACE CALLED LITTLE FOGO ISLAND. AND FOR THOSE KEEPING TRACK, 44 00:05:20,053 --> 00:05:27,193 THAT'S AN ISLAND, OFF AN ISLAND, OFF AN ISLAND. HER ANCESTORS LANDED HERE FROM IRELAND AND SOUTH ENGLAND. 45 00:05:27,260 --> 00:05:35,034 THEY CAME FOR ONE REASON. >> FISH, FISH, AND FISH. >> WHEN YOU SAY "FISH," IS IT JUST A GIVEN? 46 00:05:35,101 --> 00:05:40,940 >> IT'S A GIVEN. SO WHEN, YES, WHEN WE SAY "FISH," WE MEAN COD. >> IS IT POSSIBLE TO EXAGGERATE 47 00:05:41,007 --> 00:05:46,813 THE IMPORTANCE OF COD TO THIS PLACE? >> NO, IT'S NOT POSSIBLE, BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED 48 00:05:46,879 --> 00:05:53,352 TO KNOW ABOUT SOMEONE FROM HERE, YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT BY JUST STUDYING THAT LOWLY FISH. IT'S ACTUALLY QUITE A NOBLE 49 00:05:53,419 --> 00:05:58,691 FISH. >> A NOBLE FISH? >> IT ASKS VERY LITTLE AND GIVES SO MUCH. 50 00:05:58,758 --> 00:06:04,897 THEY EXIST ON ALMOST ANYTHING. I MEAN, I THINK A COD COULD EAT A RUBBER BOOT IF IT HAD TO. >> NOT UNLIKE THE NOBLE FISH, 51 00:06:04,964 --> 00:06:11,337 ZITA COBB'S FAMILY SURVIVED WITHOUT FUSS. IN COD THEY TRUSTED. FAMILIES WORKED SIDE BY SIDE 52 00:06:11,404 --> 00:06:17,176 HERE, TRADING THEIR FISH FOR GOODS. NO BANK ACCOUNTS NO, CASH. COBB'S PARENTS COULD NEITHER 53 00:06:17,243 --> 00:06:26,052 READ NOR WRITE. SHE AND HER SIX BROTHERS GREW UP IN A HOUSE WITH NO ELECTRICITY. SHE SAYS IT WAS A HAPPY 54 00:06:26,119 --> 00:06:31,424 CHILDHOOD, UNTIL IT WASN'T. >> WHAT HAPPENED? >> THE WORST OF THE 20th CENTURY CAME DOWN ON TOP OF US VERY 55 00:06:31,491 --> 00:06:37,997 QUICKLY IN THE FORM OF INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE FISHERIES. SO THESE ENORMOUS FACTORY SHIPS 56 00:06:38,064 --> 00:06:44,637 SHOWED UP HERE ALL ALONG THE COAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND FISHED DAY AND NIGHT UNTIL JUST ABOUT EVERY LAST FISH WAS GONE. 57 00:06:44,704 --> 00:06:51,210 >> WITH ONE SMALL PUNT LAUNCHED FROM THIS ONE DOCK, COBB'S FATHER COULDN'T COMPETE WITH COMMERCIAL VESSELS THAT HAD COME 58 00:06:51,277 --> 00:06:56,783 TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. >> HOW BAD DID THINGS GET FOR HIM? 59 00:06:56,849 --> 00:07:01,687 >> THINGS GOT -- HE WOULD GO OUT AND COME BACK WITH NOTHING. BUT ONE DAY IN PARTICULAR HE CAME BACK WITH ONE FISH. 60 00:07:01,754 --> 00:07:10,229 AND HE BROUGHT THE FISH INTO THE HOUSE AND HE SLAPPED IT DOWN ONTO THE KITCHEN FLOOR AND SAID, "WELL, IT'S DONE." 61 00:07:10,296 --> 00:07:15,268 AND IT WAS THE NEXT DAY HE BURNED HIS BOAT. >> HE BURNED HIS BOAT? >> HE BURNED HIS BOAT. 62 00:07:15,334 --> 00:07:21,040 >> IT'S ALMOST LIKE A SACRIFICE. >> IT WAS. HE DID IT AS A STATEMENT. HE DID IT AS AN EXPRESSION OF 63 00:07:21,107 --> 00:07:29,882 PAIN AND ANGER. >> LAMBERT COBB MADE THIS SACRIFICE ONCE HE REALIZED THAT THOSE BIG BOATS WERE, IN HIS 64 00:07:29,949 --> 00:07:37,657 WORDS, TURNING FISH INTO MONEY. >> HE SAID TO ME, AS A 10-YEAR-OLD, YOU HAVE GOT TO FIGURE OUT HOW THIS MONEY THING 65 00:07:37,723 --> 00:07:43,296 WORKS, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, IT'S GONNA EAT EVERYTHING WE LOVE. >> HE WASN'T WRONG. 66 00:07:43,362 --> 00:07:48,901 AS FISH STOCKS DWINDLED, SO DID THE ISLAND'S POPULATION, FROM 5,000 TO 2,500. THE COBBS LEFT, GRUDGINGLY, FOR 67 00:07:48,968 --> 00:07:56,375 THE MAINLAND IN THE 1970s. ZITA COBB'S FATHER DIED SHORTLY THEREAFTER, BUT SHE HEEDED HIS ADVICE. 68 00:07:56,442 --> 00:08:05,551 SHE GOT A BUSINESS DEGREE, WORKED IN FIBEROPTICS, LANDED IN SILICON VALLEY, AND BEFORE LONG WAS THE THIRD HIGHEST PAID 69 00:08:05,618 --> 00:08:10,656 FEMALE EXECUTIVE IN AMERICA. IN HER EARLY 40s, SHE CASHED OUT TENS OF MILLIONS IN STOCK OPTIONS, DROPPED OUT OF THE 70 00:08:10,723 --> 00:08:18,130 WINNER-TAKE-ALL ECONOMY, AND TOOK HER SAVVY HOME, DETERMINED TO REVITALIZE FOGO ISLAND. INSTEAD OF WRITING A CHECK, SHE 71 00:08:18,197 --> 00:08:23,302 POSED A QUESTION. >> WHAT DO WE HAVE AND WHAT DO WE KNOW? AND HOW CAN WE PUT THAT FORWARD 72 00:08:23,369 --> 00:08:35,581 IN A WAY THAT'S DIGNIFIED FOR FOGO ISLANDERS, AND CREATES ECONOMY, AND CONNECTS US TO THE WORLD? 73 00:08:35,648 --> 00:08:44,624 >> SPEND ONE NIGHT AT WHAT THE LOCALS CALL A SHED PARTY AND THE ANSWER EMERGES. >> WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE 74 00:08:44,690 --> 00:08:49,028 PEOPLE OF THIS PLACE, IF THERE'S ONE THING WE'RE REALLY GOOD AT, IT'S HOSPITALITY. >> WHAT DOES HOSPITALITY MEAN 75 00:08:49,095 --> 00:08:54,634 HERE? >> HOSPITALITY IN ITS PUREST FORM IS THE LOVE OF A STRANGER. WE DIDN'T GET A LOT OF 76 00:08:54,700 --> 00:09:01,107 STRANGERS. AND WHEN THEY ARRIVED, AS MY MOTHER USED TO SAY, IT'S ALWAYS BETTER TO SEE A LIGHT COMING 77 00:09:01,173 --> 00:09:05,945 INTO THE HARBOR THAN A LIGHT GOING OUT. >> COBB BUILT THE BIGGEST BEACON IN THE HARBOR. 78 00:09:06,012 --> 00:09:12,718 SHE MADE THE FOGO ISLAND INN THE CENTERPIECE OF A CHARITABLE TRUST, CALLED SHOREFAST, WITH PROFITS REINVESTED IN THE 79 00:09:12,785 --> 00:09:19,125 ISLAND. AT $2,000 A NIGHT, THE INN DOES TURN A PROFIT, BUT THERE WERE OTHER CONSIDERATIONS. 80 00:09:19,191 --> 00:09:25,131 >> WE'RE GOING TO PUT A 29-ROOM INN ON AN ISLAND THAT'S NEVER HAD AN INN. WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF 81 00:09:25,197 --> 00:09:30,236 THAT? WELL, MORE PEOPLE WILL COME. WELL, HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE? AS ONE WOMAN SAID, WELL, YOU 82 00:09:30,303 --> 00:09:35,007 KNOW, WE'RE ONLY 2,500 PEOPLE. WE CAN ONLY LOVE SO MANY PEOPLE AT A TIME. >> Reporter: SHOREFAST AND THE 83 00:09:35,074 --> 00:09:40,746 INN EMPLOY MORE THAN 300 ISLANDERS. BUT THE REAL PAYOFF IS THE RIPPLE EFFECT. 84 00:09:40,813 --> 00:09:48,754 FOR STARTERS, ALL THE FURNITURE AT THE INN IS LOCALLY MADE. SAME FOR THE PILLOWS AND QUILTS. IT SO HAPPENS THE WOMEN OF FOGO 85 00:09:48,821 --> 00:09:55,828 ISLAND HAVE BEEN MAKING THEM FOR THEIR OWN HOMES FOR 400 YEARS. >> WE'RE GETTING THERE. WE GOT HALF DONE. 86 00:09:55,895 --> 00:10:02,268 >> Reporter: WORD IS OUT NOW, THIS QUILT IS DESTINED FOR A CUSTOMER IN BALTIMORE. WE JOINED THE QUILTING BEE BUT 87 00:10:02,335 --> 00:10:09,709 DIDN'T LAST LONG. >> IT WAS ALL VERY NICE EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE SQUARE. >> THIS IS OUR LETTUCE ROOM. 88 00:10:09,775 --> 00:10:15,247 >> SHOREFAST PUTS UP SEED MONEY FOR NEW BUSINESSES, TOO. A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS SO FAR. 89 00:10:15,314 --> 00:10:21,520 >> AND THEN YOU'RE PUT YOUR PLANT IN. >> A $7,500 MICROLOAN WENT TO DWIGHT BUDDEN AND HIS FATHER, 90 00:10:21,587 --> 00:10:26,926 HAYWARD, A FORMER FISHER WHO LEFT FOGO ISLAND WHEN THE INDUSTRY COLLAPSED. HE'S BACK NOW, AS A HYDROPONIC 91 00:10:26,993 --> 00:10:34,333 FARMER, GROWING GREENS FOR THE INN. >> YEAH, THERE'S OUR KALE. >> DOES HAYWARD EAT KALE? 92 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:40,206 >> NOT TOO MUCH. >> NOT TOO MUCH. >> BEYOND THE KALE, NEW CULTURE IS TAKING ROOT. 93 00:10:40,272 --> 00:10:48,881 FUTURISTIC-LOOKING STUDIOS NOW SPECKLE THE LANDSCAPE, PART OF SHOREFAST'S AMBITION TO BRING ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE TO FOGO. 94 00:10:48,948 --> 00:10:58,758 AND BACK AT THE INN, A CHEF TURNS COD INTO HAUTE CUISINE. >> IF YOUR DAD SAW COD WITH MAGNOLIA OIL AND SEAFOAM -- 95 00:10:58,824 --> 00:11:02,428 >> AND PORCINI. >> AND PORCINI? >> YES. >> WHAT WOULD HE SAY? 96 00:11:02,495 --> 00:11:06,165 >> YES. FIRST THING, HE'D SAY, CAN YOU REALLY EAT THAT? >> YOU CAN DO MORE THAN EAT COD. 97 00:11:06,232 --> 00:11:13,672 YOU CAN FISH FOR IT AGAIN. NOW THAT A DECADES-LONG BAN HAS BEEN EASED, FOGO ISLAND'S FISHERS ARE BACK HAULING COD. 98 00:11:13,739 --> 00:11:20,579 WE VENTURED OUT OF FOGO HARBOR WITH BROTHERS GLEN AND JERRY BEST, THE FIFTH GENERATION OF THEIR FAMILY, TO HARVEST THESE 99 00:11:20,646 --> 00:11:26,052 WATERS. >> YOU GO EAST, YOUR NEXT STOP IS IRELAND. >> IRELAND? 100 00:11:26,118 --> 00:11:32,158 >> WE'RE NOT GOING THROUGH THERE TODAY. >> THE BEST BROTHERS SHOWED US THE TRADITIONAL NEWFOUNDLAND WAY 101 00:11:32,224 --> 00:11:39,632 OF FISHING WITH A HAND-LINE. 150 FEET DOWN, NO RODS, REELS, OR NETS. >> NOW WE'RE TALKING. 102 00:11:39,698 --> 00:11:47,473 >> THAT'S A BEAUTY. >> UP COMES COD, WITHOUT MUCH OF A FIGHT. >> NOW, THAT'S A NICE COD. 103 00:11:47,540 --> 00:11:52,311 THAT'S PROBABLY A 20-POUND FISH. >> COD IS MAKING A COMEBACK IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC. CANADA STILL IMPOSES CATCH 104 00:11:52,378 --> 00:11:59,785 LIMITS, BUT WHEN THE BESTS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS, THEY USE AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM TO DROP THOUSANDS OF HOOKS IN THE WATER 105 00:11:59,852 --> 00:12:06,392 AT A TIME. WE WATCHED THEM OFFLOAD 20,000 POUNDS OF COD FROM A SINGLE TRIP. 106 00:12:06,459 --> 00:12:13,065 WHAT'S MORE, SHELLFISH HAS DONE THE UNTHINKABLE AND DETHRONED COD AS KING. CRAB AND SHRIMP NOW MAKE UP 80% 107 00:12:13,132 --> 00:12:21,073 OF GLEN BEST'S BUSINESS, AND HE'S NEVER HAD A BETTER YEAR. >> YOU TOLD ME YOU CAUGHT 400,000 POUNDS OF SNOW CRAB. 108 00:12:21,140 --> 00:12:26,245 AT $7.60 A POUND -- >> YEAH, THAT'S PRETTY GOOD. > 3 MILLION BUCKS. >> IT ADDS UP. 109 00:12:26,312 --> 00:12:31,550 >> THAT'S PRETTY GOOD. >> YEAH, IT WAS A GOOD YEAR. >> BUT A THRIVING FISHERY ISN'T ALWAYS ENOUGH TO KEEP THE KIDS 110 00:12:31,617 --> 00:12:36,922 AROUND. BEST'S THREE CHILDREN HAVE MOVED AWAY FROM FOGO TO PURSUE OTHER CAREERS. 111 00:12:36,989 --> 00:12:43,529 >> YOUR FAMILY'S BEEN DOING THIS FOR GENERATIONS. YOU NAMED THIS BOAT AFTER YOUR DAD. 112 00:12:43,596 --> 00:12:47,833 >> SO, THE SAD PART ABOUT IT IS THAT JERRY AND MYSELF, WE PROBABLY COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION THAT WILL FISH WITHIN 113 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:55,508 OUR FAMILY. WHEN THE DAY COMES THAT THAT HAPPENS, THAT WILL PROBABLY BE A SAD DAY. 114 00:12:55,574 --> 00:13:01,814 >> Reporter: STILL, FOGO ISLAND'S POPULATION HAS STABILIZED. THERE'S HOPE THE NEXT CENSUS 115 00:13:01,881 --> 00:13:05,584 WILL SHOW AN UPTICK. BABIES ARE THE ISLAND'S BIGGEST CELEBRITIES. BUT AS EVER, WITH GROWTH COME 116 00:13:05,651 --> 00:13:13,592 GROWING PAINS. IT'S ALREADY BECOME ONE OF THOSE ISLANDS WHERE YOU HAVE TO PRAY TO GET A SPOT ON THE FERRY. 117 00:13:13,659 --> 00:13:19,999 JENNIFER SEXTON SPENT SUMMERS ON FOGO ISLAND VISITING HER GRANDPARENTS. SHE RECENTLY MOVED HERE FROM 118 00:13:20,065 --> 00:13:27,606 WESTERN CANADA TO OPEN THIS COFFEE JOINT, WHERE LOCALS MIX WITH THOSE WHO COME AWAY. >> EVERYBODY ASKS ABOUT THE INN. 119 00:13:27,673 --> 00:13:34,246 >> WHAT DO YOU TELL THEM? >> WELL, IT'S A BLESSING AND A CURSE. >> HER REGULARS GRUMBLE THAT NOT 120 00:13:34,313 --> 00:13:41,687 LONG AGO, THEY COULD GET A HOME FOR $25,000 CANADIAN. NOW HOMES COST TEN TIMES AS MUCH. 121 00:13:41,754 --> 00:13:47,960 >> FOR SOMEBODY FROM AWAY, THAT WOULDN'T BE A LOT. BUT FOR SOMEBODY FROM HERE, THAT IS A LOT OF MONEY. 122 00:13:48,027 --> 00:13:53,832 >> ZITA COBB, THE WOMAN WHO TURNED THIS TIDE, SAYS SHE DOESN'T WANT UNCHECKED GROWTH EITHER. 123 00:13:53,899 --> 00:13:59,705 >> AS THE ECONOMY GROWS, WE WILL BE SMALLER AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE WHOLE ECONOMY. >> A RARE BUSINESS LEADER THAT 124 00:13:59,772 --> 00:14:05,244 WANTS LESS MARKET SHARE. >> WE WANT LESS MARKET SHARE, EXACTLY. >> YOU SAY THAT WITH A SMILE ON 125 00:14:05,311 --> 00:14:11,684 YOUR FACE, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF RESPONSIBILITY HERE. >> YEAH, I MEAN, THE CONSEQUENCES ARE HUGE BECAUSE, 126 00:14:11,750 --> 00:14:16,755 AS MY BROTHER SAYS, YES, OUR PARENTS WILL GET OUT OF THE GRAVEYARD AND WRING OUR NECKS IF WE MESS THIS UP. 127 00:14:16,822 --> 00:14:23,596 >> WHAT'S YOUR RESPONSE TO THE CAPITALISTS WHO WOULD SAY, WHY ARE YOU LIMITING YOUR GROWTH? >> THAT IS THE TECHNOECONOMIC 128 00:14:23,662 --> 00:14:29,902 QUESTION. BUT I START WITH A DIFFERENT QUESTION. WHAT ARE WE OPTIMIZING FOR? 129 00:14:29,969 --> 00:14:37,977 WE ARE OPTIMIZING FOR PLACE. >> THE PILLARS OF THIS COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN WON OVER. IF COBB'S EXPERIMENT HELPS 130 00:14:38,043 --> 00:14:42,414 DIVERSIFY THE ECONOMY, GLEN BEST SAYS HE'S ALL IN. >> IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE OVERRUN BY TOURISM. 131 00:14:42,481 --> 00:14:46,919 THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT WORKS HERE. WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, THE VENICE OF NEWFOUNDLAND, YOU KNOW? 132 00:14:46,986 --> 00:14:53,325 WE'RE NOT OUT OF PATIENCE WITH PEOPLE YET. >> Reporter: ON OUR LAST NIGHT AT THE SHED PARTY, WE GOT THE 133 00:14:53,392 --> 00:15:03,369 FULL SWEEP OF FOGO ISLAND. ITS HOSPITALITY AND ITS CONTRASTS LAID OUT ON THE TABLE, COD AND CRAB, YOUNG AND OLD, 134 00:15:03,435 --> 00:15:12,444 WARMTH, WIT, AND THIS. ♪ DON'T TELL FATE WHAT TO DO ♪ >> Reporter: A TRADITIONAL SONG DELIVERED WITH A HANDSHAKE. 135 00:15:12,511 --> 00:15:19,351 A KIND OF HOPE THAT COMES TEMPERED BY HISTORY. >> THE UNDOING OF THIS TRADITIONAL WAY OF MAKING A LIFE 136 00:15:19,418 --> 00:15:25,891 WAS VERY PAINFUL. I THINK I STILL CARRY THOSE BROKEN HEARTS. I THINK THAT KIND OF PAIN 137 00:15:25,958 --> 00:15:32,765 DOESN'T GO AWAY. >> TO WHAT EXTENT HAS THAT BEEN REPAIRED BY THE WORK YOU'VE DONE SINCE YOU'VE COME BACK? 138 00:15:32,831 --> 00:15:38,737 >> YEAH, I THINK IT ACTUALLY DOES HELP. YOU CAN HEAL A BROKEN HEART. ♪ BE SATISFIED WITH WHAT YOU'VE 139 00:15:38,804 --> 00:15:47,046 GOT ♪ ♪ LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE ♪ 140 00:15:55,187 --> 00:16:01,527 >>> WHEN WORKERS BROKE GROUND ON AN UNDERGROUND PARKING LOT IN THE HEART OF ROME 18 YEARS AGO, THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT THEIR 141 00:16:01,593 --> 00:16:07,933 BACKHOES WERE ABOUT TO UNEARTH. THE SITE TURNED OUT TO BE WHAT ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE WHAT WAS ONCE "THE PLEASURE 142 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:15,274 GARDENS" OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR CALIGULA, WHERE SOME 2,000 YEARS AGO ALL SORTS OF LAVISH PARTIES, ROYAL INTRIGUE, AND DEBAUCHED 143 00:16:15,341 --> 00:16:23,282 BEHAVIOR LIKELY TOOK PLACE. CALIGULA BECAME THE THIRD EMPEROR OF ROME IN 37 A.D. AND REIGNED FOR BARELY FOUR YEARS. 144 00:16:23,349 --> 00:16:29,621 HE'S BEEN PORTRAYED AS ONE OF THE MOST DERANGED AND DESPICABLE ROMAN EMPERORS EVER TO RULE. BUT AS WE FIRST REPORTED IN 145 00:16:29,688 --> 00:16:36,562 2021, SCHOLARS HAVE BEEN RE-EXAMINING CALIGULA'S STORY TO SEE IF HISTORY HAS IT RIGHT. COULD WE DISCOVER SOME NEW 146 00:16:36,628 --> 00:16:43,535 FRAGMENTS OF TRUTH IN CALIGULA'S GARDENS? ANDERSON COOPER WENT TO ROME TO FIND OUT. 147 00:16:43,602 --> 00:16:50,309 >> THE TEMPLES AND PALACES OF ANCIENT ROME MAY HAVE CRUMBLED LONG AGO, BUT THE LEGEND OF ONE OF ITS ODDEST EMPERORS LIVES ON. 148 00:16:50,376 --> 00:16:55,280 >> DOWN ON YOUR KNEES, ALL OF YOU. BEND YOUR HEADS. I SHALL SEVER EACH ONE AT THE 149 00:16:55,347 --> 00:17:01,153 NECK. >> WHAT MOST PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT CALIGULA COMES FROM THIS ICONIC BBC SERIES, "I, CLAUDIUS," WHICH 150 00:17:01,220 --> 00:17:09,962 WAS BASED ON TWO HISTORICAL NOVELS BY ROBERT GRAVES. IN THE SHOW, CALIGULA TURNS HIS PALACE INTO A BROTHEL, MAKES HIS 151 00:17:10,028 --> 00:17:17,403 HORSE A HIGH-RANKING SENATOR, AND DECLARES HIMSELF A LIVING GOD. >> FOR NOW, YOU MAY ADDRESS ME 152 00:17:17,469 --> 00:17:26,311 AS ZEUS. >> Reporter: IT'S A TORRID TALE OF INCEST, INFANTICIDE -- >> DON'T GO IN THERE. 153 00:17:26,378 --> 00:17:34,787 >> AND IMPERIAL MADNESS. >> HELP ME. >> Reporter: BUT HOW MUCH OF THAT PORTRAYAL IS REAL? 154 00:17:34,853 --> 00:17:41,193 DID CALIGULA IMPREGNATE HIS SISTER AND THEN EAT HER BABY? >> CALIGULA DID NOT IMPREGNATE HIS SISTER AND EAT HER BABY. 155 00:17:41,260 --> 00:17:47,733 >> DID CALIGULA MAKE A HORSE A HIGH-RANKING CONSUL? >> NO, OF COURSE HE DIDN'T. >> DID HE TURN HIS PALACE INTO A 156 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:52,571 BROTHEL? >> NO. >> SO WHERE DID ALL THESE IDEAS COME FROM? 157 00:17:52,638 --> 00:18:00,312 >> WELL, LARGELY FROM ROBERT GRAVES. HIS "I, CLAUDIUS" NOVELS ARE AWESOME. 158 00:18:00,379 --> 00:18:07,719 BUT HE WASN'T AN ACADEMIC. HE WAS A WRITER. >> ANDREW WALLACE-HADRILL IS AN ACADEMIC, A PROFESSOR EMERITUS 159 00:18:07,786 --> 00:18:13,625 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AND HE'S CLOSELY STUDIED THE FEW WRITTEN ACCOUNTS THAT SURVIVE FROM CALIGULA'S TIME. 160 00:18:13,692 --> 00:18:18,363 >> I GREW UP WATCHING "I, CLAUDIUS." I LOVED THE BOOK. I LOVE THE TV SERIES. 161 00:18:18,430 --> 00:18:24,803 YOU'RE TELLING ME A LOT OF THAT JUST WASN'T TRUE. >> NOW, WHAT I'M NOT DENYING IS THEY HAD SEX IN THE PALACE. 162 00:18:24,870 --> 00:18:32,411 OF COURSE THEY HAD SEX. PRETTY SPECTACULARLY, OF COURSE THEY HAD SEX. >> PRETTY SPECTACULARLY? 163 00:18:32,478 --> 00:18:39,585 BUT WALLACE-HADRILL DOES BELIEVE CALIGULA COULD BE VERY IMPULSIVE AND BRUTAL, AND HE DOESN'T RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT HE MAY 164 00:18:39,651 --> 00:18:46,492 HAVE HAD A SEVERE PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISORDER. >> I THINK THERE'S A SERIOUS DANGER THAT CALIGULA WAS 165 00:18:46,558 --> 00:18:54,366 PATHOLOGICAL, THAT HE ACTUALLY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE HURT HE CAUSED. >> WALLACE-HADRILL SAYS ROBERT 166 00:18:54,433 --> 00:19:01,907 GRAVES' NOVELS WERE LARGELY BASED ON STORIES PUBLISHED AROUND 121 A.D., 80 YEARS AFTER CALIGULA'S DEATH BY SUETONIUS, A 167 00:19:01,974 --> 00:19:10,415 WELL-KNOWN BIOGRAPHER AND ADVISOR TO LATER EMPERORS. BUT SUETONIUS OFTEN HAD TO RELY ON SECOND-HAND STORIES AND 168 00:19:10,482 --> 00:19:15,387 GOSSIP FROM MEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL COURT. >> THESE MEMBERS OF THE COURT, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE STAFFERS IN 169 00:19:15,454 --> 00:19:22,661 THE WHITE HOUSE. IT'S LIKE ALL THOSE LEAKY PEOPLE IN BUCKINGHAM PALACE. WHAT ARE THESE STORIES WORTH? 170 00:19:22,728 --> 00:19:30,068 HOW CAN YOU PIN THEM DOWN? >> ARCHAEOLOGY CAN HELP PIN DOWN THE PAST, BUT IN A CITY FULL OF AMAZING RUINS, NOT MUCH DIRECTLY 171 00:19:30,135 --> 00:19:39,478 LINKED TO CALIGULA HAD BEEN DISCOVERED. THAT IS, UNTIL 2006 WHEN A PENSION FUND FOR ITALIAN DOCTORS 172 00:19:39,545 --> 00:19:46,985 CALLED ENPAM STARTED DIGGING AN UNDERGROUND PARKING GARAGE FOR ITS NEW OFFICE BUILDING IN THE ESQUILINO NEIGHBORHOOD OF ROME. 173 00:19:47,052 --> 00:19:53,425 IN ANCIENT TIMES, THIS WAS ONE OF A NUMBER OF TRANQUIL GARDEN ESTATES LOCATED ABOUT TEN MINUTES BY CARRIAGE FROM THE 174 00:19:53,492 --> 00:20:02,334 BUSTLING ROMAN FORUM. THESE RE-CREATIONS FROM ROME'S SUPERINTENDENT OF ANTIQUITIES GIVE SOME SENSE OF THE SPRAWLING 175 00:20:02,401 --> 00:20:08,740 GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS ENJOYED BY EMPERORS AND THEIR GUESTS FOR ABOUT FOUR CENTURIES. IT TOOK ARCHAEOLOGISTS NINE 176 00:20:08,807 --> 00:20:16,214 YEARS TO CAREFULLY RECOVER MORE THAN A MILLION PIECES OF THE PAST, WHILE AN UNDERGROUND PARKING GARAGE AND MODERN 177 00:20:16,281 --> 00:20:24,122 BUILDING WAS BUILT AROUND THEM. EVERYTHING FOUND WAS TAKEN TO A LARGE WAREHOUSE, WHERE IT WAS CLOSELY ANALYZED, LOGGED INTO A 178 00:20:24,189 --> 00:20:30,996 DATABASE, AND WHEN POSSIBLE, PAINSTAKINGLY RESTORED. THE OFFICE BUILDING'S COMPLETED NOW AND ROME'S NEWEST 179 00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:39,471 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, THE NYMPHEUM MUSEUM, OPENED IN THE BASEMENT, PRESERVING SOME OF THE EXCAVATION AND SUGGESTING WHAT A 180 00:20:39,538 --> 00:20:46,011 LUSH AND LAVISH PLACE THIS ONCE WAS. IT CONTAINS THOUSANDS OF ITEMS FROM THE SECOND CENTURY B.C. 181 00:20:46,078 --> 00:20:54,019 THROUGH THE FIFTH CENTURY A.D., LIKE THIS DRINKING GLASS THAT SOMEHOW SURVIVED LARGELY INTACT FOR 1,900 YEARS. 182 00:20:54,086 --> 00:21:00,158 MIRELLA SERLORENZI, DIRECTOR OF EXCAVATIONS FOR THE ITALIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE, TOOK US TO A SMALL STAIRCASE NORMALLY 183 00:21:00,225 --> 00:21:08,133 CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC AND BROUGHT US TO THE LEVEL OF THE GROUND DURING CALIGULA'S TIME. >> SO, BACK THEN IN THE FIRST 184 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:17,142 CENTURY, 2,000 YEARS AGO, THIS WAS OUTSIDE? >> Translator: IT WAS CLEARLY A GARDEN BECAUSE WE FOUND IN THE 185 00:21:17,209 --> 00:21:22,981 LAYERS TRACES OF THE ROOTS OF THE PLANTS. AND IN THIS PART HERE, THE STAIRCASE CONNECTED THE VARIOUS 186 00:21:23,048 --> 00:21:31,490 LEVELS OF THE GARDEN. >> IS IT POSSIBLE TO WALK ON IT? >> ABSOLUTELY, YES. >> EXCELLENT. 187 00:21:31,556 --> 00:21:40,165 >> THIS IS WHAT SERLORENZI'S TEAM BELIEVES THE AREA LOOKED LIKE DURING CALIGULA'S REIGN. WE ENDED UP TALKING FOR A LONG 188 00:21:40,232 --> 00:21:45,771 TIME ON THE GARDEN STEPS. IS IT ALL RIGHT TO SIT DOWN? >> OKAY. >> THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT 189 00:21:45,837 --> 00:21:53,111 TOUCHING THOSE OLD SLABS OF MARBLE THAT MADE ANCIENT HISTORY FEEL VERY REAL. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WE ARE 190 00:21:53,178 --> 00:21:57,949 SITTING ON THE STEPS THAT CALIGULA MAY HAVE WALKED ON. IT'S AMAZING. SHE TOLD US THE WATER PIPE BY 191 00:21:58,016 --> 00:22:04,956 HER FEET WAS INSTALLED BY CALIGULA'S SUCCESSOR, HIS UNCLE CLAUDIUS. HIS NAME IS STAMPED ON THE PIPE. 192 00:22:05,023 --> 00:22:11,930 ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE THINGS ABOUT CALIGULA IS THAT HE LIVED TO BECOME EMPEROR AT ALL. THE EMPEROR BEFORE HIM, HIS 193 00:22:11,997 --> 00:22:17,903 ADOPTIVE GRANDFATHER, TIBERIUS, WAS SUSPECTED OF KILLING CALIGULA'S FATHER, MOTHER, AND TWO BROTHERS. 194 00:22:17,969 --> 00:22:25,811 AND WHEN CALIGULA TURNED 19, HE WAS SUMMONED TO LIVE WITH TIBERIUS AT HIS PALACE ON THE ISLAND OF CAPRI. 195 00:22:25,877 --> 00:22:31,616 IT SITS HIGH ON A CLIFF, AND IT'S SAID TIBERIUS WOULD HAVE PEOPLE WHO CROSSED HIM TOSSED ONTO ROCKS BELOW. 196 00:22:31,683 --> 00:22:38,323 THROUGH SOME COMBINATION OF FLATTERY AND DECEIT, CALIGULA MANAGED TO SURVIVE HERE FOR SIX YEARS WITH THE MAN WHO MAY HAVE 197 00:22:38,390 --> 00:22:47,365 KILLED MUCH OF HIS FAMILY. HE BECAME TIBERIUS' SUCCESSOR IN 37 A.D. HE WAS JUST 24 YEARS OLD AND IN 198 00:22:47,432 --> 00:22:53,772 CHARGE OF AN EMPIRE. >> HE WAS IN A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT POSITION. I LIKE THE SAYING OF TIBERIUS, 199 00:22:53,839 --> 00:23:02,547 WHO SAYS, BEING EMPEROR IS LIKE HAVING TO HOLD A WOLF BY THE EARS. THERE'S THIS SORT OF SAVAGE 200 00:23:02,614 --> 00:23:11,690 BEAST THAT CAN TURN ON YOU ANY MOMENT. >> WHAT IS SO INSECURE ABOUT IT? WAS IT THE SYSTEM ITSELF? 201 00:23:11,757 --> 00:23:19,297 >> YOU'VE GOT THIS ENORMOUS CONCENTRATION OF POWER AND RESOURCE, WEALTH CONCENTRATED ON THE PALACE IN ROME. 202 00:23:19,364 --> 00:23:26,138 AND EVERYONE WANTS IN ON IT. THEY ARE PREPARED TO DO ANYTHING TO SEIZE THIS POWER. >> BACK THEN, THE ROMAN EMPIRE 203 00:23:26,204 --> 00:23:34,146 DOMINATED THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD, AND ITEMS FOUND IN THE GARDENS GIVE SOME SENSE OF THE RICHES THAT FLOWED TOWARDS ROME. 204 00:23:34,212 --> 00:23:41,586 RARE AND INTRICATELY CARVED MARBLE FROM THE FAR REACHES OF THE EMPIRE DECORATED THE WALLS OF THE BUILDINGS. 205 00:23:41,653 --> 00:23:46,558 GLASS RECOVERED AT THE SITE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN USED IN VERY EARLY WINDOWS, AND LARGE AMOUNTS OF OYSTERS APPEAR TO 206 00:23:46,625 --> 00:23:53,732 HAVE BEEN SERVED AT MEALS. MIRELLA SERLORENZI SAYS HER TEAM RECOVERED THE BONES OF WILD ANIMALS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN 207 00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:59,671 BROUGHT HERE FROM FAR-AWAY LANDS. SHE SHOWED US THE LEG OF AN OSTRICH, THE FOOT OF A LION, AND 208 00:23:59,738 --> 00:24:04,342 THE TOOTH OF A BEAR. >> Translator: IT'S EVIDENT THAT WILD ANIMALS WERE HERE FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE EMPEROR. 209 00:24:04,409 --> 00:24:12,317 GAMES WERE CARRIED OUT HERE WITH GLADIATORS, WE CAN IMAGINE, AND BATTLES WITH FEROCIOUS BEASTS. >> WHEN HE BECAME EMPEROR, 210 00:24:12,384 --> 00:24:18,723 CALIGULA STARTED IMPROVING ROME'S INFRASTRUCTURE. HE BEGAN WORK ON NEW AQUEDUCTS. HE ALSO CUT TAXES. 211 00:24:18,790 --> 00:24:27,265 SERLORENZI SAYS THIS COIN FOUND IN THE GARDENS WAS MINTED AROUND 39 A.D. TO REMIND ROMANS THAT CALIGULA GOT RID OF A SALES TAX. 212 00:24:27,332 --> 00:24:34,306 >> 2,000 YEARS AGO, POLITICIANS WERE JUST LIKE POLITICIANS TODAY. IF THEY CUT TAXES, THEY WANTED 213 00:24:34,372 --> 00:24:39,477 EVERYBODY TO KNOW ABOUT IT. >> Translator: THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. THE COINS ARE A FORM OF IMPERIAL 214 00:24:39,544 --> 00:24:47,152 PROPAGANDA. >> BUT SOMETHING CHANGED AS THE YEARS PROGRESSED. SUETONIUS SAID CALIGULA WANTED 215 00:24:47,219 --> 00:24:52,023 TO BE TREATED AS A GOD AND CONNECTED HIS PALACE IN THE ROMAN FORUM TO A MAJOR TEMPLE. >> THAT'S THE TEMPLE OF CASTOR 216 00:24:52,090 --> 00:24:57,863 AND POLLUX? >> EXACTLY, EXACTLY, AND THIS COLUMN HAS BEEN STANDING THERE FOR MORE THAN 2,000 YEARS. 217 00:24:57,929 --> 00:25:02,200 >> THAT'S INCREDIBLE. >> THEY HAVE BEEN CREATED IN THEY YEAR 6. >> PAOLO CARAFA, PROFESSOR OF 218 00:25:02,267 --> 00:25:08,707 ARCHEOLOGY AT SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME, HAS BEEN STUDYING THE ROMAN FORUM AREA FOR MORE THAN 35 YEARS. 219 00:25:08,773 --> 00:25:16,948 >> SO, ACCORDING TO SUETONIUS, CALIGULA EXTENDED HIS HOUSE UP TO THAT TEMPLE? >> EXACTLY. 220 00:25:17,015 --> 00:25:22,287 >> HAVE YOU FOUND EVIDENCE OF THAT? >> BEHIND THE TEMPLE, RECENT EXCAVATION HAVE IDENTIFIED 221 00:25:22,354 --> 00:25:28,593 FRAGMENTS OF A LARGE HOUSE, A LUXURY HOUSE. >> HE CAN'T SAY FOR SURE IT WAS CALIGULA'S HOUSE, BUT HE SAYS IT 222 00:25:28,660 --> 00:25:35,834 COMES FROM THAT TIME PERIOD. AND ONLY AN EMPEROR LIKE CALIGULA WOULD HAVE DARED DO SOMETHING SO SHOCKING. 223 00:25:35,901 --> 00:25:39,271 >> HE WANTED THE TEMPLE TO BE THE ENTRANCE TO HIS -- >> EXACTLY. >> -- OWN HOUSE? 224 00:25:39,337 --> 00:25:46,845 >> WHICH IS QUITE UNUSUAL. >> ONE OF THE THINGS "I, CLAUDIUS" SEEMS TO HAVE GOTTEN RIGHT, WALLACE-HADRILL TOLD US, 225 00:25:46,912 --> 00:25:55,620 WAS CALIGULA'S CAPACITY FOR BOTH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CRUELTY. >> THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT CALIGULA'S BRUTAL BUT SUETONIUS 226 00:25:55,687 --> 00:26:00,959 SAYS HE'S NOT ONLY BRUTAL. HE THINKS IT'S AMUSING. HE TAKES PLEASURE IN IT. >> PERHAPS THE MOST TELLING 227 00:26:01,026 --> 00:26:07,332 ACCOUNT COMES FROM A CONTEMPORARY OF CALIGULA'S, THE PHILOSOPHER SENECA, WHO DESCRIBES HOW CALIGULA INVITED A 228 00:26:07,399 --> 00:26:13,705 FATHER TO A FESTIVE DINNER ON THE DAY HE HAD EXECUTED THE MAN'S SON. >> AND AT THE DINNER, HE INSISTS 229 00:26:13,772 --> 00:26:22,781 THAT THE FATHER SHOULD HAVE A JOLLY TIME. HE PLIES HIM WITH WINE AND FOOD. HE EVEN PLIES HIM WITH PERFUME 230 00:26:22,847 --> 00:26:29,354 AND A GARLAND. >> ON THE VERY DAY HIS SON -- >> ON THE VERY DAY. AND SENECA SAYS PEOPLE ASKED HOW 231 00:26:29,421 --> 00:26:38,096 ON EARTH COULD HE ENDURE TO DO IT? AND THE ANSWER IS, HE HAD A SECOND SON. 232 00:26:38,163 --> 00:26:46,104 AND I THINK THAT ANECDOTE JUST EVOKES THE ATMOSPHERE OF TERROR OF THE COURT OF CALIGULA. >> AS "I, CLAUDIUS" SHOWED, THE 233 00:26:46,171 --> 00:26:52,911 END CAME IN 41 A.D., WHEN CALIGULA WAS STABBED TO DEATH BY MEMBERS OF HIS OWN IMPERIAL GUARD. 234 00:26:52,978 --> 00:27:02,654 >> HE'S KILLED BY HIS OWN GUARDSMEN, BUT THEN THEY HAVEN'T GOT A CANDIDATE. >> THEY HAVE NOBODY WAITING TO 235 00:27:02,721 --> 00:27:07,959 TAKE OVER? >> THEY HAVE NO ONE IN THE WINGS, EXCEPT POOR OLD CLAUDIUS. >> DOES THAT ARGUE THE POINT 236 00:27:08,026 --> 00:27:15,166 THAT HE HAD TO HAVE BEEN REALLY AWFUL IF THEY WERE SO MOTIVATED TO JUST KILL HIM? >> YEP, YEP, YEP. 237 00:27:15,233 --> 00:27:28,246 IT'S AN ASSASSINATION BORN OF ANGER, HUMILIATION, DISGUST. WE CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE. >> LONG AFTER THE ASSASSINATION 238 00:27:28,313 --> 00:27:34,352 ITSELF, SOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE CALIGULA'S ENEMIES ASSASSINATED HIS MEMORY AS WELL. >> THERE'S A NUMBER OF 239 00:27:34,419 --> 00:27:40,759 CONTEMPORARY SCHOLARS WHO HAVE ARGUED THAT CALIGULA'S CRITICS DISTORTED HIS MEMORY, THAT THEY HAVE FALSELY MADE HIM OUT TO BE 240 00:27:40,825 --> 00:27:48,566 FAR WORSE THAN HE WAS. >> OF COURSE, IT'S LIKE ENTERING A HALL OF MIRRORS, AND YOU KNOW SOME OF THEM ARE CONCAVE AND 241 00:27:48,633 --> 00:27:55,040 SOME ARE CONVEX, AND THERE ARE NO FLAT MIRRORS. >> BUT ISN'T THAT TERRIFYING THAT WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW ABOUT 242 00:27:55,106 --> 00:28:08,019 HISTORY IS SO DEPENDENT ON RUMORS OR -- >> BUT I THINK IT'S AN ENORMOUS MISTAKE TO LOOK AT THE PST AS A 243 00:28:08,086 --> 00:28:17,028 SERIES OF SOLID ROCKS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS DEFINITELY THERE AND THAT WAS DEFINITELY -- IT'S A GREAT MORASS, A FLOWING SEA. 244 00:28:17,095 --> 00:28:24,002 I THINK THAT ANCIENT HISTORY IS VERY GOOD FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE IT'S GOT SO MUCH UNCERTAINTY IN IT. 245 00:28:24,069 --> 00:28:30,608 >> BUT WHY IS IT GOOD THAT THERE'S A LOT OF MISINFORMATION? >> IT'S GOOD BECAUSE THE WORLD WE LIVE IN IS FULL OF 246 00:28:30,675 --> 00:28:37,916 MISINFORMATION, AS WE HAVE LEARNED SPECTACULARLY IN RECENT YEARS, YOU KNOW? PEOPLE INVENT TRUTHS. 247 00:28:37,982 --> 00:28:44,355 YOU HAVE TO BE SKEPTICAL. >> AS WE PREPARE TO LEAVE THE NYMPHEUM MUSEUM, WE COULDN'T HELP THINKING ABOUT HOW TIME 248 00:28:44,422 --> 00:28:51,262 TRAMPLES EVEN THE MIGHTIEST OF EMPIRES, TURNING LAVISH GARDENS INTO UNDERGROUND PARKING LOTS. >> WHAT DO YOU THINK CALIGULA 249 00:28:51,329 --> 00:28:58,369 WOULD THINK OF WHAT'S HAPPENED TO HIS GARDENS? >> Translator: I THINK HE'D BE IN TOTAL DISAGREEMENT, AND I 250 00:28:58,436 --> 00:29:05,577 DON'T THINK HE'D BE VERY HAPPY THAT WE'RE SITTING ON A STAIRCASE. 251 00:29:10,582 --> 00:29:14,285 >>> HOW DID A MOSAIC FROM CALIGULA'S REIGN TURN UP AS A COFFEE TABLE IN A NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT? 252 00:29:14,352 --> 00:29:29,000 THAT STORY AT 60MINUTESOVERTIME.COM. >>> MOZAMBIQUE'S GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK WAS THE ENVY OF 253 00:29:29,067 --> 00:29:36,407 AFRICA. WILDLIFE DREW TOURISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, BUT BEGINNING IN THE 1960s A MANMADE 254 00:29:36,474 --> 00:29:42,614 CATASTROPHE SLAUGHTERED THE ANIMALS UNTIL, IT WAS SAID, THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT BUT MOSQUITOS AND LAND MINES. 255 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,752 IN 2008, WE FOLLOWED AN AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR WHO DREAMED OF RETURNING A WASTELAND TO GREATNESS. 256 00:29:47,819 --> 00:29:55,326 AND NOW GREG CARR HAS SOMETHING TO SHOW THE WORLD. AS SCOTT PELLEY REPORTED IN DECEMBER 2022, "60 MINUTES" 257 00:29:55,393 --> 00:30:04,769 COULDN'T RESIST A RETURN TO GORONGOSA WHEN CARR SENDS OUT INVITATIONS LIKE THIS. >> JUST COME SIT AT A SUNSET BY 258 00:30:04,836 --> 00:30:17,448 THE LAKE, IN THE CENTER OF THIS NATIONAL PARK. I MEAN, TIME STOPS. AND YOU GET 100 COLORS OF YELLOW 259 00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:28,426 AND 100 COLORS OF ORANGE, AND THEN THE DUSK SETS IN. AND THEN A FLOCK OF BIRDS GO OVER THE WATER, AND THERE'S A 260 00:30:28,493 --> 00:30:33,298 HIPPO OVER THERE MAKING A NOISE. AND THERE'S AN IMPALA OVER THERE. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, WELL, 261 00:30:33,364 --> 00:30:42,640 I COULD HAVE BEEN HERE 100,000 YEARS AGO AND IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE SAME. >> GREG CARR'S WONDER IS ALMOST 262 00:30:42,707 --> 00:30:50,481 LIKE DISBELIEF. A MILLION ACRES OF AFRICA REBORN. >> WHEN I FIRST CAME HERE IN 263 00:30:50,548 --> 00:30:55,053 2004, I COULD DRIVE AROUND WITH MY MOZAMBICAN FRIENDS ALL DAY LONG. AND IF WE WERE LUCKY, MAYBE WE 264 00:30:55,119 --> 00:31:04,696 WOULD SEE ONE BABOON OR ONE WARTHOG OR SOMETHING. NOW WE DRIVE AROUND AND IT'S AN OCEAN OF WILDLIFE. 265 00:31:04,762 --> 00:31:11,469 COME AROUND THE CORNER, THERE'S A HERD OF ELEPHANTS. GO THE OTHER DIRECTION, THERE'S SOME LION CUBS. 266 00:31:11,536 --> 00:31:16,841 10,000 WATERBUCK. AND I SAY TO MYSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT? NATURE CAN REBOUND. 267 00:31:16,908 --> 00:31:23,781 >> THE REBOUND IS IN SOUTHEAST AFRICA, NEAR THE CENTER OF MOZAMBIQUE. HERE, 28 YEARS OF WAR FROM THE 268 00:31:23,848 --> 00:31:35,660 '60s TO THE '90s KILLED AN ESTIMATED 1 MILLION PEOPLE AND WIPED OUT 95% OF THE WILDLIFE IN GORONGOSA FOR FOOD AND PROFIT. 269 00:31:35,727 --> 00:31:44,435 AS THE WAR RAGED IN THE 1980s, GREG CARR WAS A TECH ENTREPRENEUR, WHO'D MADE A FORTUNE PERFECTING VOICE MAIL. 270 00:31:44,502 --> 00:31:52,443 HE QUIT BUSINESS TO DEVOTE HIMSELF TO HUMAN RIGHTS. AND IN 2004, HE MET MOZAMBIQUE'S PRESIDENT, JOACHIM CHISSANO, WHO 271 00:31:52,510 --> 00:31:59,250 MADE A WILD PITCH. >> HE SAID, LOOK, PLEASE COME TO MOZAMBIQUE AND HELP US. WE WANT TO RESTORE OUR NATIONAL 272 00:31:59,317 --> 00:32:07,325 PARK. >> WHEN WE FLEW OVER THIS, I SAID, THIS IS IT. >> WHEN WE MET CARR IN 2008, HIS 273 00:32:07,392 --> 00:32:16,534 NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION HAD SIGNED A 20-YEAR CONTRACT WITH MOZAMBIQUE. HIS PLAN WAS TO IMPORT ANIMALS 274 00:32:16,601 --> 00:32:27,845 FROM ALL OVER AFRICA. >> WELL, STEP ONE, WE HAD TO REMOVE 20,000 TRAPS AND WIRE SNARES THAT WERE LEFT IN THIS 275 00:32:27,912 --> 00:32:34,719 PARK, LEFTOVER FROM THE WAR. GET RID OF ALL THOSE. BECAUSE WHEN I FIRST CAME HERE, I MEAN, WE THINK WE HAD FIVE OR 276 00:32:34,786 --> 00:32:39,223 SIX LIONS, MAYBE. >> IN A MILLION ACRES? >> IN A MILLION ACRES. AND THE LIONS THAT WE DID HAVE, 277 00:32:39,290 --> 00:32:45,997 MOST OF THEM HAD THREE LEGS BECAUSE THEY'D STEPPED ON A TRAP OR SOMETHING. SECOND, SOME OF THE SPECIES WERE 278 00:32:46,064 --> 00:32:53,471 GONE COMPLETELY. SO WE WENT ON A PROCESS. FIRST BRING IN THE HERBIVORES. SO, WE BRING IN 200 BUFFALO. 279 00:32:53,538 --> 00:32:58,843 WE BRING IN 200 WILDEBEEST. WE BRING IN SOME ZEBRA. AND THEN WHEN YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH HERBIVORES, THEN YOU'RE GOING TO 280 00:32:58,910 --> 00:33:06,351 WANT THE CARNIVORES BACK. WE REINTRODUCED LEOPARDS. WE REINTRODUCED HYENAS. THE LIONS, ALL BY THEMSELVES, 281 00:33:06,417 --> 00:33:13,424 THEIR NUMBERS TOOK OFF. FROM FIVE OR SIX LIONS WHEN WE STARTED, WE NOW HAVE PROBABLY 200. 282 00:33:13,491 --> 00:33:21,666 >> GORONGOSA'S LION CONSERVATION IS URGENT BECAUSE, SINCE 1950, AFRICA'S LION POPULATION HAS FALLEN FROM HALF A MILLION TO 283 00:33:21,733 --> 00:33:31,242 20,000 DUE TO HABITAT LOSS AND HUNTING. WE SAW HOW GORONGOSA IS PROTECTING ITS LIONS ON A 284 00:33:31,309 --> 00:33:40,118 MISSION WITH PARK VETERINARIAN ANTONIO PAOLO. >> OKAY, I WILL SHOOT NOW. PAOLO FIRED A TRANQUILIZER 285 00:33:40,184 --> 00:33:47,024 DART -- >> RIGHT ON TARGET. >> -- AND A 300-POUND LIONESS LED US ON A CHASE. 286 00:33:47,091 --> 00:33:51,896 >> REVERSE. GIVE SPACE. TURN AROUND, TURN AROUND. >> SHE LEFT US BEHIND, BUT SHE 287 00:33:51,963 --> 00:34:00,505 COULDN'T OUTRUN THE SEDATIVE. >> THERE SHE IS. >> YEAH, SHE IS THERE, SLEEPING. >> SHE'D BE OUT ABOUT AN HOUR AS 288 00:34:00,571 --> 00:34:07,512 DR. PAOLO CHANGED HER FAULTY GPS COLLAR. THE SIGNAL GOES TO HEADQUARTERS WHERE THEY TRACK THE PRIDES AND 289 00:34:07,578 --> 00:34:16,220 HERDS. A BIT OF EAR WAS NICKED FOR GENETIC TESTS. AND THEN THERE WAS A SURPRISE. 290 00:34:16,287 --> 00:34:19,924 >> YOU THINK SHE'S PREGNANT? >> YEAH. SHE LOOKS LIKE PREGNANT. >> AND THERE IS THE FUTURE OF 291 00:34:19,991 --> 00:34:26,731 THE PARK. >> YES, THE FUTURE CUBS OF THE PARK. >> LATER, SHE AWOKE AND HEADED 292 00:34:26,798 --> 00:34:35,273 OUT WITH HER FUTURE CUB. >> I NEVER IMAGINED IT WOULD GO SO WELL OR SO FAST. IN 2018, WE DID AN AERIAL 293 00:34:35,339 --> 00:34:49,253 SURVEY. SO, COUNTING ONLY THE BIG ANIMALS, WE COUNTED 100,000 LARGE ANIMALS FROM THE AIR. 294 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:57,562 >> THRILLED AS HE IS, IT WASN'T WILDLIFE THAT DREW THIS 63-YEAR-OLD IDAHO NATIVE TO AFRICA. 295 00:34:57,628 --> 00:35:09,841 IN 2008, HE INTRODUCED US TO THE 200,000 PEOPLE LIVING AROUND THE PARK, SURVIVORS OF THE WARS, LIVING ON A DOLLAR A DAY. 296 00:35:09,907 --> 00:35:14,545 >> PEOPLE HAD NOTHING. THEY DIDN'T HAVE CLOTHES. THEY WERE WEARING RAGS OR MADE CLOTHES OUT OF TREE BARK. 297 00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:19,884 THEY WERE EATING INSECTS AND TRYING TO CATCH MICE. THAT'S WHEN IT STRUCK ME, THIS NATIONAL PARK'S GOING TO HAVE TO 298 00:35:19,951 --> 00:35:28,759 HELP THE PEOPLE. >> Reporter: TODAY, GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK EMPLOYS 1,600 WORKERS. 299 00:35:28,826 --> 00:35:37,168 TOURISM BRINGS IN CASH, WHICH GOES TO THE PEOPLE AND TO THE PARK. AND GREG CARR HAS PARTNERED WITH 300 00:35:37,235 --> 00:35:44,742 THE GOVERNMENT ON HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION. CARR IS THE BIGGEST DONOR, BUT U.S. FOREIGN AID KICKS IN ABOUT 301 00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:51,716 6 MILLION A YEAR. >> WE NOW WORK IN 89 PRIMARY SCHOOLS, WHICH IS EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL THAT SURROUNDS THIS 302 00:35:51,782 --> 00:35:59,056 NATIONAL PARK. WE'RE TRAINING 600 SCHOOL TEACHERS RIGHT NOW. NOW, THINK ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT 303 00:35:59,123 --> 00:36:02,860 IT IS TO CREATE A SCHOOL SYSTEM WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE SCHOOL TEACHERS THAT KNOW HOW TO READ AND WRITE BECAUSE OF GENERATIONS 304 00:36:02,927 --> 00:36:10,835 OF WAR. NOW, SOMETHING WE REALLY FOCUSED ON AS STEP ONE WAS REALLY VULNERABLE GIRLS. 305 00:36:10,902 --> 00:36:16,274 A LOT OF TIMES WHAT HAPPENS IN THE POOR FAMILIES AROUND HERE, A GIRL TURNS 13 OR 14 AND THE FAMILY SAYS, WELL, IT'S TIME FOR 306 00:36:16,340 --> 00:36:21,646 HER TO GET MARRIED. IT MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ACTUALLY WANT, BUT THEY THINK THERE'S NO OTHER CHOICE. 307 00:36:21,712 --> 00:36:27,752 AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS, AND SHE MARRIES A FARMER, AND THAT'S IT. SO, WE STARTED SOMETHING CALLED 308 00:36:27,818 --> 00:36:37,862 THE GIRLS CLUB. >> THERE ARE 3,000 GIRLS IN 92 AFTERSCHOOL CLUBS. THE PROGRAM IS LED BY LARISSA 309 00:36:37,929 --> 00:36:45,703 SOUSA. >> WHY IS THIS THE JOB OF A CONSERVATION PARK? >> WHY NOT? 310 00:36:45,770 --> 00:36:53,711 IT SHOULD BE THE JOB FOR EVERYONE, FOR EVERYONE. EDUCATION IS FOR EVERYONE. >> THE CLUBS PROVIDE THE 311 00:36:53,778 --> 00:37:01,786 RESOURCES TO GET THE GIRLS INTO HIGH SCHOOL, AND IT GIVES STUDENTS AN ANSWER TO OUR QUESTION, WHICH FIVE YEARS AGO 312 00:37:01,852 --> 00:37:12,863 WOULDN'T HAVE MADE SENSE. WAT DO YOU WANT TO BE? WE HAVE A TEACHER, A NURSE, A CONSERVATION PARK RANGER, AND 313 00:37:12,930 --> 00:37:17,134 ANOTHER NURSE. >> ANOTHER NURSE, YES. WHEN WE STARTED THE PROGRAM, THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT THEY HAD 314 00:37:17,201 --> 00:37:22,506 THIS CHOICE. >> AND NOW THEY DO. >> NOW THEY DO. >> THIS LAND BELONGS TO THESE 315 00:37:22,573 --> 00:37:27,111 PEOPLE. THEY'VE BEEN HERE FOREVER. IT'S THEIR ANIMALS. IT'S THEIR LAND. 316 00:37:27,178 --> 00:37:32,416 IT'S THEIR TREES. IT'S THEIR CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL HERITAGE. IT'S AN IDEA THAT CAME FROM MY 317 00:37:32,483 --> 00:37:40,958 HERO, NELSON MANDELA. AND THE IDEA WAS TO CREATE A HUMAN RIGHTS PARK. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, RIGHT? 318 00:37:41,025 --> 00:37:46,464 A PARK THAT CARES ABOUT THE PEOPLE, A PARK THAT BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE. SO, INSTEAD OF A PARK TURNING 319 00:37:46,530 --> 00:37:52,637 ITS BACK ON THE PEOPLE, A PARK OPENING ITSELF TO PEOPLE. SAYING, THIS IS YOUR PARK, THIS IS YOUR ANIMALS, THESE ARE YOUR 320 00:37:52,703 --> 00:38:01,479 OPPORTUNITIES. [ SINGING IN GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] WE SAW THOSE OPPORTUNITIES ON MOUNT GORONGOSA, WHICH WAS 321 00:38:01,545 --> 00:38:07,485 STRIPPED OF TREES DURING THE WARS. HERE CARR'S NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION IS GIVING AWAY COFFEE 322 00:38:07,551 --> 00:38:17,595 TREES. 868 FAMILY FARMERS, WORKING FOR THEMSELVES. ARE EARNING FAR MORE THAN EVER, SO THEY CAN'T PLANT 323 00:38:17,662 --> 00:38:27,505 TREES FAST ENOUGH, WHICH REFOREST THE MOUNTAIN. CARR'S FOUNDATION BUYS THE BEANS AT ABOVE THE MARKET RATE AND 324 00:38:27,571 --> 00:38:39,950 BUILT THE FARMERS A ROASTING PLANT. THERE'S NO BETTER EXAMPLE OF CARR'S MODEL FOR LIFTING PEOPLE 325 00:38:40,017 --> 00:38:48,192 AND HEALING THE WILD. IT'S WORKING. BUT THE LAST 14 YEARS HAVEN'T BEEN SWEET MUSIC ALONE. 326 00:38:48,259 --> 00:38:54,065 SINCE WE WERE HERE IN 2008, THERE HAVE BEEN ENORMOUS ROADBLOCKS TO THIS PROJECT. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 327 00:38:54,131 --> 00:39:03,574 IF I HAD KNOWN THEN WHAT WAS GOING TO COME. >> WHAT CAME WAS ANOTHER CIVIL WAR IN 2013. 328 00:39:03,641 --> 00:39:13,150 AND THEN IN 2019, A CYCLONE LEVELLED 100,000 HOMES. >> THERE WAS THE SIX YEARS OF WAR, AND THEN THE CYCLONE. 329 00:39:13,217 --> 00:39:20,658 WHEN CYCLONE IDAI HIT, BASICALLY EVERY ONE OF OUR EMPLOYEES BECAME A FIRST RESPONDER. SO, IN OTHER WORDS -- OH, 330 00:39:20,725 --> 00:39:26,497 THERE'S AN ELEPHANT RIGHT THERE. >> IS THERE? WELL, THERE CERTAINLY IS! >> I JUST HAVE TO STOP AND SAY 331 00:39:26,564 --> 00:39:33,104 HELLO TO THE ELEPHANT. >> WE COULDN'T FIND THE WILDLIFE IN 2008 -- >> AND NOW, THEY'RE INTERRUPTING 332 00:39:33,170 --> 00:39:41,345 OUR INTERVIEW. >> AND NOW, THEY'RE WALKING IN ON THE INTERVIEW. >> WAS THERE EVER A TIME THAT 333 00:39:41,412 --> 00:39:47,785 YOU THOUGHT TO YOURSELF, I DID MY BEST, BUT THIS JUST ISN'T GOING TO BE HUMANLY POSSIBLE? >> NOT FOR A SECOND. 334 00:39:47,852 --> 00:39:55,226 NOT FOR ONE SECOND. >> WITH THE CYCLONES, WITH THE RETURN OF THE CIVIL WAR. >> I JUST THINK EVERY TIME 335 00:39:55,292 --> 00:40:03,100 SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENS, IT JUST MAKES YOU MORE DETERMINED, NOT LESS DETERMINED. AND WHEN YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE 336 00:40:03,167 --> 00:40:07,204 SUFFERING IN A WAR THAT NEED HELP, OR PEOPLE SUFFERING IN A CYCLONE THAT NEED HELP, YO'RE MORE COMMITTED. 337 00:40:07,271 --> 00:40:18,115 YOU DON'T LOSE COMMITMENT AT A TIME LIKE THAT. >> WE SAW COMMITMENT IN THE RANGERS WHO PROTECT THE PARK. 338 00:40:18,182 --> 00:40:31,228 [ SINGING IN GLOBAL LANGUAGE ] FOR THE FLORA AND THE FAUNA, THEY SING, WE WILL DIE FOR OUR PARK. 339 00:40:31,295 --> 00:40:39,203 PART OF WHAT THEY PROTECT ARE ENDANGERED SPECIES, INCLUDING THIS MAMMAL WITH A BOTTOMLESS TASTE FOR TERMITES. 340 00:40:39,270 --> 00:40:45,976 PANGOLINS ARE HUNTED FOR THEIR SCALES, WHICH ARE PRIZED IN FOLK MEDICINE. VETERINARIAN MERCIA ANGELA TOLD 341 00:40:46,043 --> 00:40:55,586 US THAT PANGOLINS RIDE ON THEIR MOTHER'S BACKS. BUT WE FOUND ANY BACK WILL DO. >> THAT'S FUNNY. 342 00:40:55,653 --> 00:41:00,057 HE JUST NATURALLY GOES RIGHT UP TO THE SHOULDER AND HANGS ON YOUR BACK. >> YEAH. 343 00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:05,529 >> POWERFUL TAIL. >> TAIL, YEAH, THE TAIL IS VERY POWERFUL. THEY'RE ALSO USED FOR 344 00:41:05,596 --> 00:41:12,069 PROTECTION. >> WHERE ARE YOU GOING? I'M SURPRISED THEY'RE SO DOCILE. I MEAN, THIS IS A WILD ANIMAL. 345 00:41:12,136 --> 00:41:17,942 >> YES, IT'S A WILD ANIMAL. >> SUCCESS, HEY? >> BUT FOR US, THE MOST INTERESTING ANIMAL IN THE 346 00:41:18,008 --> 00:41:26,851 PARK -- >> GORONGOSA OYEA! >> IS GREG CARR, AN ENTREPRENEUR WITH THE EMPATHY TO SEE, THE 347 00:41:26,917 --> 00:41:36,460 HUMILITY TO LISTEN, AND THE OPTIMISM TO ACT. HIS BUSINESS MODEL IS CREATING A NEW ECOSYSTEM WHERE ANIMALS THAT 348 00:41:36,527 --> 00:41:45,536 WERE HUNTED ARE SUDDENLY WORTH MUCH MORE ALIVE. >> HOW MUCH OF YOUR PERSONAL FORTUNE HAVE YOU PUT INTO THIS? 349 00:41:45,603 --> 00:41:53,077 >> WELL, I'D LIKE TO KEEP THAT A SECRET, BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD PROBABLY DO THE MATH AND FIGURE 350 00:41:53,143 --> 00:41:59,550 IT OUT. IT'S MORE THAN $100 MILLION. MY MESSAGE TO ANYBODY WITH MONEY IS, I MEAN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING 351 00:41:59,617 --> 00:42:07,324 TO DO? STICK IT ALL IN YOUR CASKET? I MEAN, WHY NOT ENJOY THE JOY OF PHILANTHROPY? 352 00:42:07,391 --> 00:42:14,198 I WOULD SAY TO THE BILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR, GO OUT AND ENJOY SPENDING YOUR MONEY TO HELP SOME PEOPLE. 353 00:42:14,265 --> 00:42:24,141 >> FIND YOUR GORONGOSA. >> GO FIND YOUR GORONGOSA. AND IT WILL BLESS YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY EVER BLESS IT. 354 00:42:33,183 --> 00:42:35,286 >>> I'M JON WERTHEIM. THANKS FOR JOINING US. 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