horn that you see here will sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars on the black market. >> corey nolton this isn't easy to watch, you about he vows to take the abuse of his critics as he vows that conservation hunting can help save the black rhino. cnn, northern namibia. >> jeff locken joins me now to talk about this. he's the north american regional director for the international fund for animal welfare. we can assume where you're going to fall on this issue first. i want to get your reaction to seeing the rhino legally hunted like this. >> i was incredibly saddened, and incredulous that here is an individual professing to be a conservationist and proudly shooting one of the last of a great species. >> now, corey nolton did $350,000 for this privilege, as he describes it. that money goes to the na memberan government. the idea that this money goes towards their conservation efforts. they say this will help the rhinos in many ways. do you at least see the good intentions behind all this? >> you can justify anything by throwing piles of money at it. you can kill a human and give millions

corey nolton's rifle blast sent a piercing sound through the air. this black rhino is dead. >> the idea killing the black rhino, one of them is benefiting the species. >> i think really easily. you nor i nor anybody can grant the single animal eternal life. the animals die one way or the other. this way ensures its death benefits the rest of the species and furthermore benefits the community in the fact they value that animal's life both alive and dead both. >> reporter: what happened after the hunt is what corey noelton says he won't forgot 1,000 pounds of meat is loaded on a trailer and delivered to a village. >> which is one of the villages they are going to bring the rhino meat to here. >> the village is a desolate place. running water and electricity is scares. >> this is home. >> reporter: it's where i meet john. he shows me the homes of stone and straw he made with his bare hands for his wife and children. when a truck full of meat rolls into town, everyone turns out. >> what does it mean to you? >> means everything to me. it's a big part of

for more than a year, cnn has been covering the controversial journey of corey nolton, the texas hunterit may not be what it seems. joined nolton on the hunt through the bush. take a look. >> almost 6:00 in the morning. going to fly out to the first location to find the black rhino. this is where we start the hunt. >> our location has to be kept secret. we've been asked to keep it secret. why is that? >> they don't want any type of black market poaching ring to know exactly where these rhinos are at. >> this isn't easy. >> no, it's not easy. it's brutal. i think let's just stay really, really tight. >> yeah. this one is angry. it's likely going to get and go. we need to be ready. >> do you still feel what you did benefits the black rhino? >> i feel from day one it benefits the black rhino. i'll feel that until the day die. >> president and ceo of the human society of the united states. we want to give your take on kill it to save it rational. what do you think of that? >> this is one of the most endangered animals in the world. there are tens of thousands of people working so hard to sa