Elephants Without Borders

Afriscreen

AfriScreen Films is a high-end natural history production company specializing in African wildlife films. Mike Holding and Tania “ T.J.” Jenkins, the core of the team, bring together many years of broad international film production experience from several genres and their wildlife knowledge provides a fresh, streamlined approach to producing wildlife films.

Over the last ten years, they have worked on a multitude of wildlife series and films, including ‘Planet Earth’, ‘Life of Mammals’, ‘Wild Africa’, ‘Predators’, “Ultimate Killers”, ‘Triumph of Life’, and ‘Africa’s Deadly Dozen’. They have produced two award-winning films for the BBC’s ‘Natural World’ series – “A Wild Dog’s Story” and “Swamp Cats” and is currently in production on a third film, “Elephants Without Borders”.

ELEPHANTS WITHOUT BORDERS, the film

This is a story of vision, struggle, hope, and one man’s dream to bring freedom to Africa’s elephants. The film is an extraordinary journey with Dr.Mike Chase, Motswana ecologist, raised in Africa’s harsh wilderness. He talks passionately of his dream to create a scenario he calls “Elephants Without Borders” – a system of contiguous migratory corridors that could bring freedom for a hundred thousand elephants to range across Africa, along centuries-old trails that were once a lifeline before mankind thoughtlessly drew arbitrary lines on a map.

We are with Mike on his adventures, following him through the struggles and barriers, that both he and the elephants have to face in search of new places for elephants to live. We follow his journey as he tracks collared elephants from Botswana through Namibia and Zambia to Angola’s southern wilderness.

We come to share his extraordinary vision - to bring down the barriers which blockade traditional migration routes, to dissolve international borders, to open up new elephant havens, to help restore stricken war-zones, and to lead the way for elephants into a new promised land - a trans-frontier conservation area without man-made borders. In time, elephants will become the gentle ambassadors, the iconic flagship species, for a whole new cycle of rebirth and regeneration, in the midst of an Africa challenged by war, poverty, disease, and a heavy human footprint.

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Love Earth

Love Earth is a BBC website that inspires people to connect with our planet. It is inspired by “Earth”, the most ambitious wildlife movie to date and soon to be released globally. The film combines breathtaking images, spectacular locations and a cast of unforgettable characters.

The BBC has a trusted brand with an enormous power to inform, educate and entertain. By using digital technology, Love Earth can spark conversations and reach audiences in a different and fresh way.

Satellite Tracking

The BBC approached Elephants Without Borders to feature satellite-tracked elephants on the Love Earth website. This will introduce the site's audience to the lives of real elephants, and the scientists that study them.

So, in August 2007, and as part of a wider programme, we fitted collars to three elephants for the BBC. The three are a young female named Letsatsi, a handsome bull named Kgosi, and a beautiful matriarch named Mma Khama. Even better, Mma Khama is heavily pregnant - there may be interesting times ahead!

See exactly where the elephants are on the Love Earth maps, and find out what's happening with regular news from the field. This exciting partnership with the BBC will bring the work of EWB to a worldwide audience, which is good news for us, and good news for the elephants.

Watch Dr Mike Chase explain how humans and elephants are competing for the same resources, and why it is important to track elephants in Botswana: http://www.loveearth.com/us/videos/elephants

Photo gallery: http://www.loveearth.com/us/studio/galleries/ewb

Love Earth partner pages: http://www.loveearth.com/us/readingroom/quickguides/meetourelephanttrackingpartners

http://www.loveearth.com/us/scientificpartners/ewb

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