03/04/2025
I’m excited to be working back on a big African conversation Rewilding project 🦏 and film. It’s definitely more satisfying that conflict films, although those are second nature to me. That said the rhino poaching I’ve recently experienced in Kruger national park in South Africa is catastrophic, and human lives are being lost as well. One of the stories that I encountered, which I’d never considered before, is how the deaths of poachers affects families and children. As much as we all despise poachers, and support robust measures to protect wildlife, there we now many orphaned children across the border in Mozambique. Father’s, exploited by illegal wildlife trade networks, try to earn a living to support their family from poaching, because there are no other jobs. When a poacher is killed, it leaves children and families destitute. Like the narcotics industry, it’s a brutal cycle of exploitation and death. We’ll be shining a light on this through the aperture 🎥