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NATURE & WILDLIFE
smiling elephant

The Smiling Elephant follows Dutch elephant researcher Antoinette van de Water
who, with the support of the University of Miami, committed herself to reducing
the human - elephant conflicts in Thailand. As the habitat of wild elephants keeps
shrinking, due to the growth of the human population and its the increase of
farmland, human and elephant conflicts are a serious problem in countries such
as Thailand. Antoinette has started a project to keep the elephants away from
farmland with the use of new and innovative techniques. After years of struggling

to save domestic elephants she decided this is not the way to improve the
problem of elephants in Thailand. She now focuses on imrpoving the situtation Definition Episodes
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with wild elephants and not only limits herself to Thailand, but also expands her Producer YOP
work into Africa. With this film we follow her on her amazing and brave quest. NCFWW 2019