Saving Africa's Giants

Wild Films ~ Saving Africa's Giants with Yao Ming

Monday, July 13, 2015 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
  • Library Hall

A film by Samantha McKegg.

Former National Basketball Association (NBA) player and Olympian Yao Ming looks at the extremely concerning worldwide crisis of poaching and trafficking of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn. A shocking 30,000 elephants are killed yearly for their tusks, and an astounding 95 percent of the world's rhinos have been murdered for their horns over the last 40 years. In SAVING AFRICA’S GIANTS WITH YAO MING, the filmmakers worked with Yao Ming and WildAid to uncover the brutal secrets of this multi-million dollar underground trade, and spotlight Yao Ming's mission to educate and inspire his countrymen and the world in the effort to stop the killings and save these innocent creatures from the very real possibility of extinction.

Run time: 42 min.

WILD FILMS AT THE LIBRARY is a free series of award-winning international wildlife films selected from the International Wildlife Film Festival. The International Wildlife Film Festival was established in 1977 in Missoula, Montana with a mission to promote awareness, knowledge and understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellence in film, television and other media.