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Extinction Sucks: Hector's Dolphins Trailer

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The rarest and smallest of all the world’s marine dolphins exist in New Zealand: In the North Island the Maui’s dolphin, and in the South, the Hector’s. And the single, greatest threat to the survival of the remaining 7,000 dolphins is entirely of man’s making: fishing. The use of gill nets, a wall of death for everything caught in it, has caused the New Zealand government to introduce a ban in order to save the Hector’s dolphin. However, the fishing industry are fighting this decision, claiming it will ruin their industry. Australian conservation team Aleisha Caruso and Ashleigh Young travel to New Zealand to hold a demonstration in support of the government, and meet scientists working day and night to protect the dolphins. Find out more at www.babelgum.com/extinction-sucks.
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Extinction Sucks: Hector's Dolphins
The rarest and smallest of all the world’s marine dolphins exist in New Zealand: In the North Island the Maui’s dolphin, and in the South, the Hector’s. And the single, greatest threat to the survival of the remaining 7,000 dolphins is entirely of man’s making: fishing. The use of gill nets, a wall of death for everything caught in it, has caused the New Zealand government to introduce a ban in order to save the Hector’s dolphin. However, the fishing industry are fighting this decision, claiming it will ruin their industry. Australian conservation team Aleisha Caruso and Ashleigh Young travel to New Zealand to hold a demonstration in support of the government, and meet scientists working day and night to protect the dolphins. Find out more at Babelgum’s Extinction Sucks
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The burgeoning Indian population, and the constant threat of ivory poaching, have reduced the Asian elephant population to just 30,000. Aleisha Caruso, and her best friend Ashleigh Young, are two Australian girls determined to do something about it. They throw a Junk in your Trunk fundraiser to raise money for the Indian forestry teams so they can buy night vision binoculars to detect elephant poachers in the dark. They travel to Mudumalai National Park in Southern India to meet the elephant conservation teams and witness tigers just metres from where they’re standing, stampeding elephants and the remains of an elephant shot for its ivory.
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