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It would be difficult to imagine a more timely film than “The Serengeti Rules”, which arrived at the Quad Cinema in NY today and opens at the Laemmle in L.A. next Friday. Last Monday the UN released a report that made front page news everywhere. The Guardian led with these paragraphs:
Human society is in jeopardy from the accelerating decline of the Earth’s natural life-support systems, the world’s leading scientists have warned, as they announced the results of the most thorough planetary health check ever undertaken.
From coral reefs flickering out beneath the oceans to rainforests desiccating into savannahs, nature is being destroyed at a rate tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10m years, according to the UN global assessment report.
The biomass of wild mammals has fallen by 82%, natural ecosystems have lost about half their area and a million species are at risk of extinction – all largely as a result of human actions, said the study, compiled over three years by more than 450 scientists and diplomats.
“The Serengeti Rules” is a profile of a group of scientists that could be described as the most renowned of those who helped put together the UN Report. Now in their seventies, by all appearance, they were focused on researching biodiversity and formulating methods that could be used to preserve it. The film notes summarize their role in trying to prevent species extinctions that by the same token has the effect of preventing the extinction of the biggest threat to biodiversity on the planet today—us.
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