Dawn breaks across the savanna of Tsavo-East National Park in Kenya, Africa. A family of twelve elephants stirs in the morning sun. The humidity begins to climb and a mother nudges her calf. The little one flaps his ears and trumpets, awake. At dusk and dawn, the iron-rich soils of this untamed land are illuminated…
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PREMIERE: “Elephants: Blood Ivory”
This week I debuted my new documentary short titled Elephants: Blood Ivory. This a follow-up to a 2010 short I did titled The Ivory Role. Inspired by the October 2012 National Geographic article, I wanted to highlight the very real issue of poaching and do my part to help end it. I created African tribal-inspired…
African Elephants: Taken for “Blood Ivory”
In the October 2012 issue of National Geographic, there is a special investigative report by Bryan Christy. The report identifies many Asian countries (primarily China) as the largest consumers of [black market] ivory and explores the “loopholes” surrounding the illegal ivory trade (hint: most of the “loopholes” are religious). In 1989 the Convention on International…
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