Last night I saw the movie "The Last Lions."
I hope everyone can see it. You can read about it, watch a trailer, and register for a sweepstakes to go to Botswana at this link.
Wild lions are being driven to extinction by humans, at an alarming rate. 50 years ago there were about 450,000 lions, and now there are about 20,000.
The 2 filmmakers lived out in the field for 2 years--just the 2 of them, no other crew, in order to minimize their footprint--and filmed 3 different story lines, until 1 emerged as the story to tell. It is an amazing story of one mother's struggle to survive when she is forced to leave her home because other lions are forced to leave their homes when humans settle in their territory. The shots they were able to get are incredible, but what's most impressive is the story itself.
If lions can learn to adapt to new environments and overcome their fears and instinctual programming, we can too. Let's share our home and help one another.
