VETPAW included on website for Kathryn Bigelow's PSA "Last Days"

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker; Zero Dark Thirty) has created a powerful PSA about the African poaching crisis. Last Days uses masterful animation to show how terrorism is funded by poaching, and it presents the tragic reality of the imminent extinction of elephants and rhinos if we don’t take greater action soon.

VETPAW is honored to be included on the website for the PSA, among a small group of esteemed organizations.

Ms. Bigelow’s team explains how they came to make Last Days:
“Last year we were made aware of the very real connection between elephant poaching and terrorism. For us, it represented the diabolical intersection of two problems that are of great concern – species extinction and global terrorism. Both involve the loss of innocent life and both require urgent action.”

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Ivory For Elephants on December 6, 2014 at 3:16 pm

Great news.

Hamza on March 27, 2015 at 11:50 am

SylviaI call on the Lord’s name all the time. When I feel heavy and burden down or when I just need to call His name for add setrngth, I do so. When I call Him I can feel His presence all over me and I know He hears me and will be with me. We serve such and awesome God.
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Jake Whitlaw on March 27, 2015 at 10:45 pm

Stop playing the Bush-Obama terrorism card. The poachers are poor people trying to survive and feed their families. They are not motivated by any religious or political agenda. Of course they have to be stopped, but they are NOT terrorists.

Alex on September 7, 2015 at 7:58 am

Jake, actually you are right, some of the people are just trying to eat. Those people need a different approach. Unfortunately, the sudden increase in poaching in the last few years has a lot more to do with highly organized, outside groups of thugs doing poaching. These are often part of organized crime and do actually terrorize the local population. This is big business now, no longer just subsistence villagers. I think that’s a big reason why we haven’t gotten a handle on it…..it’s a much bigger, and more dangerous problem now.
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