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NOVA; Can the Elephant Be Saved?
Part of The GBH Animals Collection.
In this series of clips, Kenya Wildlife Services Director Richard Leakey discusses the impact of the ivory trade on the African elephant. Includes footage of elephants in the wild.
License Clip
- Series
- NOVA
- Program
- Can the Elephant Be Saved?
- Program Number
1717
- Series Description
Premiered March 1974 NOVA is a general-interest documentary series that addresses a single science issue each week. Billed as "science adventures for curious grown-ups" when it first aired in March, 1974, NOVA continues to offer an informative and entertaining approach to a challenging subject. 1996 marked NOVA's 23rd season, which makes it the longest-running science program on national television. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over. Series release date: 3/3/1974
- Program Description
NOVA looks at the controversial strategies for saving the nearly extinct elephant. Not everyone agrees that the ivory trade ban is the answer to protecting the pachyderms.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Science
- Contributors
- Leakey, Richard E. (Interviewee)
- Citation
- Chicago: “NOVA; Can the Elephant Be Saved?,” GBH Archives, accessed April 24, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3C409107D5134054AD80FF9E38C94651.
- MLA: “NOVA; Can the Elephant Be Saved?.” GBH Archives. Web. April 24, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3C409107D5134054AD80FF9E38C94651>.
- APA: NOVA; Can the Elephant Be Saved?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3C409107D5134054AD80FF9E38C94651