Sandy,
I agree with you.
(I don't have all the answers.
I just know my heart is breaking.)
I want filmmakers on this list to understand that this is happening
right now.
I want people to take a look at the ways of these wondrous sentient
animals
in the wild. And I want people to learn and think more deeply about what
these animals actually are.
Conceptually we human beings often hold a very superficial idea
about what something as interesting and complex and distant as an
ELEPHANT is
or more importantly what ELEPHANTS really are.
Mostly we have a notion formed in our heads whether we realize it or not
about something that lives in the zoo or at the circus
and that just isn't it.
If you could take a few minutes to read the information on ELEPHANT
COGNITION
you might be amazed.
( I just had no idea...)
Or watch this whole film here:
Echo: An Elephant to Remember
http://video.pbs.org/video/1616077152/
Once people here do educate themselves, they can decide to do nothing
or do something.
I will tell you that the more you learn the harder it is to do nothing.
I want us to figure out a way fast , to tell the Chinese to stop!
At very least please sign the petition Elizabeth McMahon brilliantly
brought to us,
Sign here to voice your opposition to the ivory trade:
https://secure3.convio.net/wcs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=539&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=5o6l2lo511.app333a
The African Environmental Film Foundation
screened their film "White Gold" in Bangkok on March 3.
https://www.facebook.com/AEFFonline?ref=stream
My understanding is that they will be trying to do just what you
suggest.
Arne Glimcher of the Pace Gallery is the chairman of the foundation,
he says
they plan to show the film in Beijing, with a Mandarin narration,
in Hong Kong,Singapore,Thailand, Indonesia and Japan.
No question, here FILM and the fate of this animal are inextricably
linked.
-DB
On Mar 18, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Sandra Maliga wrote:
This is tragic and infuriating.
Why can't anyone tell the Chinese people that elephants are
threatened? If elephants are extinct there will be NO MORE IVORY.
Don't they have media in China? Get the word out.
Why don't the Chinese import some elephants and start their own
herd? They could manage them carefully and eventually harvest ivory
when the herd needs thinning. No matter the cost; demand for ivory
will drive the price ever higher. They could promote "homegrown"
ivory as superior.
Documentaries shown in the US and Europe make us feel bad but don't
save animals. How about showing some documentaries in China? How
about a message on every cell phone in China? I'd give money for
that.
- Sandy Maliga
On Mar 18, 2013, at 11:02 AM, David Baker <dbak...@hvc.rr.com> wrote:
Esteemed cohorts everyone,
What I really love besides Experimental Film are Elephants.
I LOVE all Elephants but especially those that live free in the wild.
I love the complexity of elephant societies.
Something amazing to read is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition
Something important to see is:
National Geographic - Battle For The Elephants (2013)
I hope everybody on this forum is aware of the horror that is
happening to these animals right now, today.
More Elephants are being killed
than are being born. They are being wiped out, expunged from the
earth.
The numbers of those massacred are crazy.
Last year 30,000 elephants were murdered.
The killing rate is accelerating. The New York Times describes it
as a frenzy.
Horribly helicopters and machine guns do the job annihilating whole
herds.
China is the problem.
The CHINESE demand the elephant's ivory tusks to make ludicrous
carved luxury goods.
If there is hope it might be through FILM.
Apparently, ridiculously the burgeoning Chinese middle class thinks
elephant tusks fall out naturally.
They call them elephant teeth.
Using film to educate in Africa and China may be the elephants last
best hope.
The Experimental Film community can contribute importantly and make
a difference.
Kickstarter it isn't, but If you want to help or know of a
cognizant compassionate human being who does
please go here:
http://africanenvironmentalfilms.squarespace.com/donate
or here
http://www.savetheelephants.org/home.html
If you are a teacher please share this with your students.
Time is of the essence.
The force of human compassion is the solution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/opinion/death-of-the-elephants.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=organized-crime-elephant-slaughter
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/world/asia/an-illicit-trail-of-african-ivory-to-china.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/slaughter-of-the-african-elephants.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/science/surveys-quantify-loss-of-african-elephants-for-ivory-trade.html?ref=elephants
http://ntdtv.org/en/news/china/2013-03-15/china-s-demand-for-ivory-fueling-elephant-poaching.html
-David Baker
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