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VIDEO: Director Kathryn Bigelow takes on the illegal ivory trade in Last Days short

Click here to view the embedded video. WARNING: video contains scenes that may disturb some viewers (but, then again, that’s the point!) Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow has never been one to shy away from a difficult subject. However, now the Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker director is looking to a conflict of a different kind: the illegal ivory trade and its devastating effects on the African elephant population. In an unflinching animated short that tracks the path of a coveted ivory adornment in reverse, Bigelow drives home the demonstrated connection between the ivory trade and the terrorist organizations that profit from it. Bigelow takes the view that since gut-wrenching images of slaughtered elephants don’t seem to be slowing demand for ivory, getting ivory purchasers to understand that they are funding terrorism will hopefully be more of a deterrent. Read the rest of VIDEO: Director Kathryn Bigelow takes on the illegal ivory trade in Last Days short Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: elephants , illegal ivory trade , illegal wildlife trade , international wildlife crime , ivory , Kathryn Bigelow , Last Days , Last Days of Ivory , poaching , terrorism , Video

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