PERREAULT Magazine FEB | MAR 2015 | Page 57

The Facts:

An elephant is murdered every 15 minutes.

Over 30,000 elephants are killed by poaching every year.

Elephants in the wild could be extinct in 11 years.

We CAN prevent the Last Days of Elephants

African terrorist groups use the sale of illegal ivory to carry

out attacks.

Trafficking in endangered species is the 4th largest illegal

business in the world after drugs, weapons and humans.

A Letter from the Makers of 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.

To make a feature film about such a topic would likely take years during which more elephants would die, so instead we got a team of fellow filmmakers together quickly and made what you see here. We felt that by making it an animated piece we would give it a broader audience - besides, the Internet is filled with graphic images of slaughtered elephants and yet the killing continues. Our desire was to help the viewer focus on the trail of money as well as the trail of blood - a relationship that Interpol and other groups unequivocally confirm.

There are real things we can all do to stop wild elephants from disappearing from our world while cutting off funding for some of the world's most notorious terrorist networks. This site is here to help you convert your anger, your sadness and your compassion into action. Use it!

An elephant disappears every 15 minutes. It is our hope that this film helps to bring an activist into existence at least that often.

We can stop this. We need your help.

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The Last Days Team

Kathryn Bigelow Paul N.J.Ottosson

Scott Z. Burns Peter Knights

Megan Ellison Rich Klein

Sandra Rabins Matthew Budman

Juan Zarate

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