[Frameworks] ELEPHANTS AND FILM

[David Baker]

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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