Two perspectives on elephant poaching in Africa

Brut America

"The way we treat humanity is directly tied to the fate of these elephants." There are some complicated truths about how Kenya is failing to protect its elephants against the ivory trade.

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00:00How much does it weigh?

00:03It could be a kilo...

00:05Six?

00:15This is the money that went into this.

00:30The money that went into this.

00:46This is Hassan.

00:48He's the cousin of Mbali Kiasi.

00:51We're going to start with the small ones, and then the big ones.

00:56People say,

00:57if you're caught with a gun, you're dead.

01:20How's your head?

01:22It's fine.

01:24What's wrong?

01:26I've told him the story of the big one,

01:29but he told me about the small one.

01:35Do you want me to pray for you?

01:37No, I don't want to pray for you.

01:39I don't want you to get hurt.

01:41Okay.

01:56How do you feel about poaching?

02:26How do you feel about poaching?

02:56They're becoming endangered on an intellectual level,

02:59but they still see elephants all the time in their areas.

03:02I don't think they actually feel it in a day-to-day way.

03:05There is a skepticism, I think, locally about what's real and what isn't,

03:09and what's in the news and the reality that's going on.

03:12They don't always trust the things that they hear.

03:15So for them, it's a little more complicated in that sense.

03:18I'm hoping that this film helps challenge people's preconceived notions

03:21and help them understand that there is a gray space in between

03:24and that people are existing within.

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