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Last Of The Right Whales Lions, Bones & Bullets

North Atlantic right whales are dying faster than they Penguin Random House author, Richard Peirce, leads
can reproduce. With less than 400 remaining, these the dramatic adventure from lion farms in South
great whales rarely die of natural causes. Instead Africa to wildlife traffickers in Laos and Vietnam. He
they are run over by ships or suffer lethal injuries from makes a shocking discovery that wildlife ranchers in
fishing gear. If we don’t stop killing them, in 20 years South Africa are farming lions in their thousands to
they could be extinct. From the only known calving export their bones to Asia for traditional medicine.
grounds to the shifting feeding grounds, ‘Last of the Richard battles to uncover the elaborate wildlife
Right Whales’ follows the North Atlantic right whale fraud of processing lion bones into food products
migration and the people committed to saving a which could contain the ‘world’s deadliest infectious
species still struggling to recover from centuries of disease.’ The heart-warming tale of two lion cubs
hunting. given a new life, along with positive approaches to
wild lion conservation resolves the film with positivity.

Genre: Nature & Wildlife / Feature Doc Genre: Nature & Wildlife / Feature Doc
Format: 1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’ / 4K / 2022 Format: 1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’ / HD / 2021
Credits: Hit Play Productions Credits: Jagged Peak Films

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