Movie: Bloody Ivory

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Daphne Sheldrick
Daphne Sheldrick

David Sheldrick
David Sheldrick

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    This unique historical film follows the struggle in Kenya's Tsavo National Park against bow and arrow poachers who kill elephants and rhino, and the story of hand-rearing elephant and rhino orphans whose mothers were killed by poachers.

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    1978-07-26

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