The 2012 Hot Docs Forum report, part three: Fires, Liars and Inside Jokes - Realscreen


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The 2012 Hot Docs Forum report, part three: Fires, Liars and Inside Jokes
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Taking a break from moderating duties, he offered that the film “could be The Cove for elephants,” a sentiment echoed by Iikka Vehkalahti, documentary commissioning editor for Finland's YLE TV2. “I agree with Axel – it's not a natural history film,” he ...

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Survey of Greed, Tragedy, and Ignorance - Huffington Post (blog)

The Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Survey of Greed, Tragedy, and Ignorance
Huffington Post (blog)
Despite the elephant massacre in Cameroon, we've made some progress. A decision of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in 1989 made ivory trade effectively illegal. Before the CITES ban, poaching for ivory led to a ...

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Reviewing Ebert's 'Greatest Films': Santa Sangre (1989) - ScreenCrave.com

Reviewing Ebert's 'Greatest Films': Santa Sangre (1989)
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By Jaime Lopez Years ago, ScreenCrave contributor Jaime Lopez privately began tackling Roger Ebert's “Greatest Films” list, an ever-expanding monolith of celluloid currently comprised of 354 films. With 259 under his belt and less than 100 films left ...

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411 Music Ten Deep 5.23.12: The Top 10 Modern Country Outlaws - 411mania.com

411 Music Ten Deep 5.23.12: The Top 10 Modern Country Outlaws
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Later that year, he joined another music veteran -- producer/songwriter T-Bone Burnett -- in contributing music to the film Crazy Heart. Revolving around the the attempted comeback of a down-and-out country singer, Crazy Heart became one of the year's ...

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If Fabrice Muamba Were a Nigerian... - AllAfrica.com

If Fabrice Muamba Were a Nigerian...
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In a scene straight out of a movie script, one could almost hear him say, "Let me through; I am a doctor!" In a flash, Dr Deamer and a team of first aid workers surrounded the stricken soccer star and began a frantic effort to revive him.

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Dangerous Trade: Catching Smugglers - CNBC.com


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Dangerous Trade: Catching Smugglers
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"In 2011, there were a total of 23 tons of elephant ivory seized in that year alone," said Crawford Allan of World Wildlife Fund. "That's the biggest since our records began in 1989. "That equates to about two and a half thousand elephants that were ...

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Why are all Hindi movie superheroes so lame? - Hindustan Times


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Why are all Hindi movie superheroes so lame?
Hindustan Times
In Hindi cinema the suspension of disbelief is like the elephant in the room that no one wants to mention. It'd want you to believe that a man can take on an entire battalion of Pakistani army with some aide from a hand-pump but when it comes to ...

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2012 SMU Football: Elephants On The 50-Yard Line - SB Nation


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2012 SMU Football: Elephants On The 50-Yard Line
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Beyond everything else, even horizontal steps should still be considered progress for the 'stangs, who have won almost as many games in the past two seasons (15) as they had in the previous six (16), and more than they won from 1989 to 1995 (13).

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Protecting Endangered Wildlife - Voice of America

Protecting Endangered Wildlife
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The first of these, the African Elephant Conservation Fund, was established in 1989. The aim is not only to preserve these animals, but to maintain them in their natural habitats. The Funds are administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service through ...

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Poaching in Africa: the scale of the problem - Telegraph.co.uk


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Poaching in Africa: the scale of the problem
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By Charles Starmer-Smith and Brian Jackman In the years before the Tusk Trust was established in 1990, poaching was so widespread that elephant populations in many parts of Africa were threatened with extinction. The ivory trade was banned in 1989 yet ...

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