A focus on financial compensation for subjects of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ overshadowed the need to examine storytelling conventions and creative practices in contemporary documentary filmmaking.
Mammoths went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, but trade in their ivory is threatening their living elephant cousins.
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Poaching of African elephants has fallen, but the species is still at risk. Law enforcement and ivory bans help, but tackling poverty is key to stopping poaching at the source.
Splashing in the Zambezi River at Botswana’s Chobe National Park.
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