I just purchased myself a Christmas present and when it arrived in the mail early this morning I was like a kid, just couldn't wait until Christmas! I immediately put it in the DVD player - and WOW!!
"Bloody Ivory" is a marvelous movie done by Simon Trevor, a former Kenyan warden, who has lived in Tsavo National Park for many years. This movie was from filming Simon did back in the 1970's and follows David Sheldrick and his rangers on antipoaching patrols and also highlights the work his wife Daphne did in trying to save any orphans left as the result of the poaching. It is truly a tribute to David and Daphne Sheldrick and many others who had the same goals to try to protect Kenya's wildlife as best they could with the tools available to them at that time.
About the film:
BLOODY IVORY
Produced in the 1970’s, nominated for a BAFTA (Best Documentary) and at the time dubbed “The greatest wildlife film ever” by the BBC, this dramatic film records the struggle in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park to protect elephants from bow and arrow hunters supplying the international ivory trade.
Seven years in the making, this remarkable film by Simon Trevor, has now been licensed to the
African Environmental Film Foundation for its educational purposes.
The film follows Tsavo’s Warden, the late David Sheldrick, and his ranger force in their daily fight against armed poacher’s intent on wiping out Tsavo’s magnificent elephant herds and its dwindling population of Black Rhino. We also follow the story of the baby elephants, rhino and other animals that have been orphaned due to poaching, and watch them as they are hand reared and eventually return to the wild.
In 1970, Simon directed and photographed a full length 35mm Panavision film, "The African Elephant" ("King Elephant") for Cinema Centre Films in Hollywood. Bob Gottschalk, founder of Panavision, brought the company in as a partner. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for cinematography.
More recently, Simon's most important feature film assignments have been the major wildlife and scenic sequences on "Out of Africa", "The Color Purple", "Gorillas in the Mist", "White Hunter, Black Heart", and "Congo".
The African Environmental Film Foundation has other DVD’s available on Amazon that are truly amazing. Your purchase of any of these videos helps to enable Simon make more films which he donates to the Kenyan schools to help the younger generation think positively about the wildlife they live with.
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This is a movie that those of us who love wildlife, including rhino and elephants, will want to keep for our African wildlife collection.
It can be purchased at Amazon.com for $20.00. Just search under African Environmental Film Foundation and you will see what other DVD's that Simon produced you may purchase.
