DC Environmental Film Festival

Conservation Shorts III: Global Stories

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8 films in package
The Tracker
Mutinda was on Kenya’s most wanted list in the 80s and 90s for his wildlife poaching -- until he was presented with another option that would allow him to use his tracking skills for good.
Last of My Kind
One hundred and sixty species have become extinct over the past decade, and the rate of loss is increasing rapidly. Martin Palmer leads a service to mourn them.
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Trees for Tamarins
Cotton-top tamarins live in only one corner of Colombia—right where Rosamira Guillen grew up. Today, she helps local communities earn their living sustainably and even restore the neighboring forest instead of chopping it down.
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La Voz del Mar: Hope for Hawksbill Turtles
Grassroots conservation is delivering renewed hope for critically endangered hawksbill turtles in El Salvador.
The Jujurana's Kingdom
The Jujurana (king of birds) or Western tragopan is one of the most vulnerable pheasants in the world, residing in the backdrop of extreme socio-political pressures exerted on a beautiful temperate and subalpine forest landscape.
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La Forêt d'Ebo
In 2016, the Ebo Forest Research Project team installed 20 trail cameras in the Ebo forest, home to up to 25 of what might be the rarest gorilla subspecies – the Ebo gorilla.
The Ocean Solution
Farming under the sea? Meet Bren Smith, the ocean farming pioneer whose vertical kelp and shellfish farms can transform the way food is produced.
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Conservation Shorts III: Filmmaker Q&A
Featuring filmmakers Nicolas Brown, Sarah Menzies, Whitney Beer-Kerr, Jon Bougher, Munmun Dhalaria, and Ani Henríquez (ProCosta).
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Films in this virtual screening are eligible for audience awards! The voting period has closed. Stay tuned for the results!

Co-presented with Sierra Club, Maryland Chapter


Screening includes a pre-recorded filmmaker discussion.


Across the globe conservationists are working to celebrate nature and preserve our relationships with wild spaces. Travel to Kenya, the Himalayas, and the Ebo Forest in this showcase of environmental action, restoration, and advocacy.

Mutinda was on Kenya’s most wanted list in the 80s and 90s. He was single handedly decimating the wildlife population in the Amboseli region, and Kenya Wildlife Service had a warrant out for his arrest, or possibly death. His wife told him she was leaving him if he couldn’t find another job because she was scared he would be killed, and she couldn’t stick around to watch any longer. But this was all Mutinda knew. His father was a poacher and taught him everything he knew. Mutinda had a family to provide for, and felt that poaching was his only option for work. 18 years ago, he was presented with another option that would allow him to use his tracking skills for good.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    8 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Sarah Menzies
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