In February 2012, Botswana’s Duba Plains, Zarafa and Selinda Camps, owned by Great Plains Conservation, hosted Lara Logan and a team from CBS 60 Minutes for a week. Logan was in Africa to record a profile of filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert and shoot the Jouberts’ important conservation work with Big Cats in the Duba Plains area.

It was a dramatic shoot. Dereck was bitten by a venomous snake the day before 60 Minutes arrived at Duba Plains, but chose to stay and receive medical attention in Camp. Miraculously, he went on with filming lions and giving interviews with Beverly for the future broadcast. A year later Dereck says “Apart from having no feeling in the thumb, there are no after effects of my Boomslang bite.”

60 Minutes and the Jouberts were on a quest to film and follow the wildlife characters from their 2011 award-winning feature, “The Last Lions,” released by National Geographic Entertainment.

“We’re honored that 60 Minutes would run the piece on us a second time. When Lara and her team were with us we reconnected with the young male from ‘The Last Lions’ and we have had a chance to follow up on him and some others of his age for a Nat Geo WILD film later in the year. In essence, if you imagine a pride of lions, one male and eight females, and yet they are born in equal numbers of male and females, what happens to the other 7 males? Well our next film will be about that” explains Dereck.

Great Plains Conservation hosted the TV crew and South African correspondent Logan for a week. Transporting them across swollen rivers at Duba Plains to the luxury of Zarafa Camp and Selinda Camp, and flying the film crew through storms while enduring the February heat in the Okavango Delta.