Killing The Shepherd

[IronNoggin]

This will be an interesting watch methinks:

A remote community in Africa, led by a woman chief, attempts to break the stranglehold of absolute poverty by waging a war on wildlife poaching. For decades illegal wildlife poaching by both subsistence and bush meat gangs has led to the government declaring this community’s homeland “depleted” of wildlife.

The chief finds help in the form of a safari operator. They collaborate to bring stability to the community in the face of threats from disease, food instability, and rampant alcoholism that hamper access to basic necessities like health care and education. Dark forces including South African land speculators, criminal poaching gangs, and her own people conspire against the chief. Even elements from the outside modern world work against her.

https://vimeo.com/527549015

https://www.shepherdsofwildlife.org/killing-the-shepherd

 

[Longwalker]

I think this is fantastic. It's good to see some positive news about African wildlife conservation for a change. The anti hunting and animal rights groups have had centre stage and the attention of the developed world for far too long. And look at all the approval from international film reviewers!
I've seen first hand the successes of the South African private game ranches, and Namibian community conservancy areas and also private Namibian conservation hunting operators. Local Community based, sustainable, renewable resource utilization that brings in much needed foreign currency, provides good jobs, and a sustainable food source, and gives indigenous wildlife enough value to ensure their continued existence and even abundance. About as win-win as is possible in these days of diminishing wild spaces and human population pressures.
Kenya is an example of how banning hunting and top-down management and foreign meddling doesn't work, for people or for wildlife conservation. Very profitable for the Anti's though.
Zambia is applying the successful methods used in South Africa and Namibia for the benefit of local people and wildlife. Bravo!

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Same comment as else where. The Hallmark Channel ? Sounds like one of their plots.

Grizz

 

[IronNoggin]

Same comment as else where. The Hallmark Channel ? Sounds like one of their plots.

You often make light of serious situations?
Guess if you are not personally effected it's OK in your world to make jokes?

PATHETIC!

Nog