WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Director Robbie Moffat

Music composed and performed by

Pascal Isnard, William Marcx, Leila Macavoy

Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd

Distribution Sergent Major Company Ltd

The Orchard

SCREENING ON CANNES FESTIVAL

There was once a time when the African elephant roamed most of the African continent.

It was estimated that around 7-10 million elephants exited in the 1930’s.

WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS
Information Sheet on Elephants
There was once a time when the African elephant roamed most of the African
continent. It was estimated that around 7-10 million elephants existed in the 1930's.
Today that number is a shocking 350,000 individuals and still declining at an alarming
rate. Demand for human habitat, combined with a demand for ivory, has led to the near
extinction of the elephant.
The African Elephant, the largest land animal on this Earth, is an endangered species, found
only in the grasslands of Africa. Since the 1980's, 80% of the African Elephant population has
been lost, due to two major threats: habitat loss and poaching. As the human population
increases, elephant habitat is being urbanized, leading to loss of habitat, as well as increased
human-elephant conflict. The second threat, poaching, is mainly caused by the elephant's
ivory tusks, and humans' want for them. The ivory is very valuable, and elephants are often
killed just for their tusks.
African elephants migrate to avoid predators, find new resources and seek desirable climates.
Migratory herds may include up to 500 elephants. Elephants that live in desert areas
sometimes migrate in circles to search for abundant water supplies.
These animals often inhabit harsh climates that are difficult to survive in. Large ears diffuse
heat to keep the animal cool in hot weather. The trunk is a multi functional body part that
allows elephants to siphon and spray water, grab objects, fight off enemies, drink and
communicate with the herd. They eat roots, berries, tree bark and grasses. African elephants
are foragers that require little sleep. These factors help the animals roam long distances in
areas with few food resources during migration.
Baby elephants can nurse for as long as 10 years, which helps them survive during food
shortages. Mothers keep their babies close at all times during migration and teach them how
to survive while traveling with a herd. Female babies are likely to stay with the herd longer
than males.
Elephants spend around 16 hours a day eating because they have to have large amounts of
food to maintain their massive bodies. African elephants are slightly larger than Asian
elephants and, therefore, eat more. An African elephant can grow to weigh between 5,000
and 14,000 pounds and stands up to 13 feet tall. Both Asian and African elephants use their
enormous tusks to dig for food and water and to strip the bark off trees. Tree bark is a favorite
among elephants. They use their trunks to put the food in their mouths.

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Humans heavily influence nearly everything on Earth, In the tropical grasslands, their
influence can be seen everywhere. Even as the areas surrounding the direct homeland of the
animals in this food web become urbanized, humans invade further, disrupting the natural
cycles of the land. Much of the grasslands have been cultivated, and the natural grasses are
replaced with crops (often soybeans). Although this helps humans, it leaves many animals
without food. As the grasses disappear, they must turn to other food sources, such as bushes
or trees. That leaves less of those plants for the animals which originally ate them. For
example, the African Elephant ideally eats a variety of grasses, but now it has begun to adapt
to eat the foliage off higher standing trees in the grasslands. Before the human interruption,
those same trees fed giraffes, but now both animals must share.
However, humans also have a positive influence on the African grasslands. Though the bio-me
has naturally occurring wildfires, this is not always enough to promote healthy grass. Humans
contribute by (safely) causing fires similar to the naturally occurring ones. This rid the
ecosystems of many small shrubs and bushes, encouraging the animals which feed off these
plants to return to their primary diet of grasses. This can effect the food web by drastically
lowering the number of small shrubs and bushes, and even some trees. Then, more animals
eat grass (although ironically enough, grass is not always fully available to them, due to
humans using grass lands for agriculture, as described above).
Elephants need a large amount of habitat to live. Humans have become their direct
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competitors for limited space. Human populations in Africa have quadrupled in the last forty
years. Savanah habitat has been converted to human cropland and pasture. These settlers
fear the elephant because of the devastation they can cause to crops and fences. This fear,
based on human interest and commercial well-being, is resulting in the complete extinction of
the world's largest land animal.

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