Hunt For Truth: Tasmanian Tiger on SBS – Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Tim Noonan investigates the ultimate wildlife mystery to find out if the world’s rarest, most elusive animal – the Tasmanian Tiger – is gone for good or just very good at playing hide and seek.
To solve nature’s greatest cold case, Tim joins a team of scientists from the University of Tasmania as they launch the most comprehensive search in history for the legendary creature. Using thousands of camera traps, scientists have transformed the island’s wilderness into a “big brother” for wildlife.
The Tasmanian Tiger, or Thylacine, was an Australian carnivorous marsupial unlike any other known animal – it had a head like a wolf, legs like a kangaroo, stripes like a tiger, and a pouch like a koala.
Along the way, the two-time Walkley Award-winning filmmaker is drawn into the strange world of tiger treasure hunters and conspiracy theories and discovers that delving into mysteries can lead to madness.
Episode One:
Laureate professor Barry Brook is helming the camera trap operation and is the world’s leading authority on the Tasmanian Tiger. He tells Tim, “If it exists, our cameras will catch it.”
While they wait six months to see what the last cameras in the wilderness will reveal, Tim hits the road to do some investigations of his own and record the most compelling eyewitness accounts on camera.
He gets a tip-off about Tasmania’s most infamous modern-day tiger hunter; a secretive scientist with a cult-like following known only as “Tigerman.”
Hunt For Truth: Tasmanian Tiger on SBS and SBS on Demand – New Series Premiere / Wednesday 12 June at 7:30pm (2 Parts)
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