![]() The plan was to site the 1.5km 2 plant complex, which would be fully floodlit 24 hours a day, just 3km from the lake. The proposed plant would pump 530 cubic metres of brine per hour and produce 500,000 tonnes of soda ash a year, used in glass making, pharmaceuticals, and washing powder. Three years ago the Indian conglomerate Tata Chemicals and the National Development Corporation (NDC), a Tanzanian government funding agency, put forward plans for a large scale industrial plant to extract soda ash from the lake. 'I hope that people come away with a sense of mystery, not feeling that the birds have been explained or summed up.'įor such a visually and verbally poetic film The Crimson Wing is proving a powerful weapon in the fight to prevent a controversial soda ash mine being built on Lake Natron. ![]() 'We wanted to get away from a film about bird behaviour,' says the film's writer Melanie Finn. It's more about poetic images and music (provided by the British-based jazz and electronic ensemble The Cinematic Orchestra) than words (huskily narrated by Mariella Frostrup), more attune to arthouse films like Baraka than Attenborough. The film is Disney's first big-screen nature documentary in nearly half a century and the first film to be released under the Disneynature label launched to make wildlife films.Īnyone expecting a conventional documentary will be in for a surprise. We wanted to focus more on nature's inspirational power, rather than the minutiae of everything.' 'Our way of raising awareness was to make a beautiful, cinematic film. If there's too much conservation the audience would be put off,' explains co-director Leander Ward. 'It's an experiential film, not a conservation one. The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (released in the UK on 25th September) emphasises the beauty and drama of more than a million pink flamingos that annually flock to Lake Natron, a remote soda lake in Northern Tanzania. Wildlife filmmakers Leander Ward and Matthew Aeberhard's new film may be a testament to Dostoevsky's words. There is a strong case to be made that for us to want to protect a place or a species, we have to feel connected to it. To be moved and awed by nature means we form an emotional connection to it. In the environmental context, focusing on the wonder of the natural world can potentially have more impact than any amount of reports, tables and figures. Much of it focuses on what's wrong with the world and how it can be fixed.īut what about beauty as an approach? It was Dostoevsky who first wrote the enigmatic phrase, ‘beauty will save the world'. Then there's direct action - protests, boycotts and beyond. ![]() Emissions targets, green taxes, fact-filled reports and hard-hitting documentaries are one approach. There are many ways to try and save the world.
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