Green Heart Films has begun an appeal for funds in order to complete the film project on the illegal ivory trade in Africa. After our next journey to the Congo Basin we plan to visit the markets of Kinshasa to continue with further interviews with ivory traders ,we will also re-film the actual market where ivory is openly sold. After Kinshasa Steve will continue onto Bangui the capital of The Central African republic where only recently there has been a violent overthrow of the … [Read more...]

Journey to Gabon June 2008. Gabon, in contrast to Sierra Leone, is a country which is still eighty five per forested and from the forests of this Central West African nation I was to travel into three of the nations that form the Congo basin, the world’s second green lung. I arrived by air on the 7th of June and walked with difficulty from Libreville international airport under the weight of my baggage to a beach side hotel by the name of Tropicana. “Bonjour mon papa, vien, vien vien, … [Read more...]