There is no Glamour in Ivory - Illegal Ivory Trade - Documentary - Indiegogo fund-raising appeal
After eighteen months of filming in Africa: Gabon, Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and in Asia: Bangkok, Thailand and Hong Kong, China... we are now urgently seeking to raise the funds to pay for the final edit, script translation and narration.
Please visit our Indiegogo site to donate
http://igg.me/p/652410/x/3310014
Our aim is to raise $35,000 in order to complete the final post production on which we are currently working.
Green Heart Films has been filming the ongoing catastrophe of poaching Africa's elephants. We have also traveled to Asia to witness the retail trade in ivory in locations such as Bangkok and Hong Kong.
Our main target audience is China who buy over 70% of Africa's illegal ivory, as well as other other Asian countries. We will also complete narrations in Kiswahili and French in order to help educate Africa's future generations on the serious ongoing threat to this continent's priceless wildlife heritage.
In an attempt to inform the Chinese public of the consequences of their ivory purchases, Green Heart films have teamed up with Laurel Chor, a rising Chinese photographer and film-maker. Versions of the documentary will be made in Mandarin to inform the ivory buying public of what their purchases pay for - the merciless killing of whole elephant families and the murder of rangers and other law enforcement officers who bravely stand in their way.
Over the last eighteen months filmmaker Steve Taylor has survived malaria, amoebic dysentery, regional wars and criminal syndicates who are poaching Africa's last great herds.
In the year 2013 over thirty five thousand elephants were slaughtered across the continent and over 70% of this illegal ivory will be bought by Chinese citizens.
Pembe Ya Ndovu's primary audience will be the ivory-buying public in the People's Republic of China. To reach them, we will create a narration in Mandarin - the official language of China, and have asked a Chinese celebrity to narrate the film (details to be announced when confirmed). Dr Jane Goodall has kindly agreed to do an introduction to the film, and help distribute it through Roots and Shoots branches in China and 120 other countries.
If you wish to make a difference to the illegal trade in African ivory and help to stop the ongoing bloody poaching spree across this continent please help us to get this important documentary edited.
We wish to convey the truth and the bloody nature of where ivory really comes from, as we all need to appreciate the blood-thirsty nature of this illegal trade. We believe that by presenting the horror and the despicable nature of this ongoing criminal activity that the good public of China will cease to continue to purchase or trade in ivory.
Donate to this worthwhile documentary film and help us to make a difference in reducing the demand for African ivory .
Campaigns to reduce China's consumption of illegal ivory are beginning to have an impact and the authorities in China have at last begun to destroy stocks of siezed imported African ivory.
Help us to make a difference
THERE IS NO GLAMOUR IN IVORY