The Hollywood team behind the controversial film "Last Days of Ivory" have ignored calls to withdraw it, despite overwhelming evidence that it's misleading the public. The film advocates a more militaristic approach to conservation that has already proved disastrous for tribes across Africa and elsewhere.
The film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, claims that the Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab is funded by ivory poaching, but two recent investigations, by the respected think tank the Royal United Services Institute, and the UN and Interpol, have found that this is "largely wrong" and "highly unreliable".
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