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The folks at greener media are partnering with the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society to produce a documentary, Common Ground, about the human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka.
From their pitch on Kickstarter:
The elephant and the people of Sri Lanka have shared a cultural bond and relationship that is over 5,000 years old. Today this relationship is in danger of disintegrating mainly due to the loss of elephant habitat that is creating intense conflicts between people (mostly rural subsistence farmers) and elephants.... We'll learn about some of the innovative conservation projects happening on the ground; solar powered electric fences, elephant alert systems, habitat enrichment programs, programs teaching habituated elephants how to paint, and even projects that are making novelty paper out of elephant poo.
So—they have a film to make! But they need help. They've surpassed the 70 percent mark on their fundraising goal, but they have to reach the full $10,000 by March 7 or they don't get any of that money.
Kickstarter, for the unfamiliar, is a site that allows a person with a dream to pitch their project to the public and raise the money they need to complete it. If they don't reach their fundraising goal in full by the deadline, they don't have to complete the project and the pledgers don't have to pay, so it's less risk all around.
Check out the site to watch a trailer and read more about the project and if you can, help them out with a pledge and/or by spreading the word. There are even chocolate bonuses for pledging: Conrad's Confectionery will give you two chocolate elephant pops for a $20 pledge, a standing chocolate elephant for $30—and for $50, you'll get three pops and a standing elephant.
Elephant conservation, production of an important film, and chocolate—sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me.
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