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The Stork Army: Women Fighting For The Hargila Voices Of Earth
In South East Asia the Greater Adjutant Stork, known In the vast, extensive places on Earth, as the expansion
locally as the Hargila, is a sight to behold. But this of modern civilisation threatens to destroy the last
towering bird has seen its numbers dwindling rapidly remaining paradises on the planet, twelve human
to the point of endangerment. One woman has made beings have managed to preserve an ancestral
it her mission to save this species from extinction. pact of coexistence with the wilds of nature. We
Purnima Devi Burman decided she had to take travel across the globe, seeking out the testimonies of
matters into her own hands, with no support from the those who have learned how to preserve this unique
government or financial resources, she raised a team symbiosis with nature, to live first-hand experiences
of female environmental warriors to join her fight to based on a chain of respect and love between
save the Hargilas. She christened them ‘The Hargila human beings and Mother Earth.
Army’ - and this is their story.
Genre: Nature & Wildlife Genre: Nature & Wildlife
Format: 1 x 60’ / 4K / 2021 Format: 6 x Various / 4K / 2021
Credits: Gruppe 5 Credits: Old Port Films / Gariza Films
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