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Why on Earth [Played Aug. 12 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on Aug. 16 on Amazon Prime Video and various VOD platforms.] Striking cinematography dominates Katie Cleary's powerful, educational, insightful, eye-opening, heartbreaking, 75-minute documentary that focuses on the plight of endangered animals, including orangutans in Sumatra, sharks and rhinos in South Africa, and lions and elephants in Kenya, due to harvesting of palm oil, deforestation, mass killing, and poaching and the efforts to stop and prevent cruelty to animals all over the world and encouraging plant-based diets and consists of commentary by director and conservationist Clint Eastwood, Orangutan Information Center founder Panut Hadisiswoyo, wildlife photographer and conservationist Paul Hilton, Peace 4 Animals & World Animal News president and founder Katie Cleary, Orangutan Information Center member Nayla Azmi, The Oranutan Project conservation director Dr. Ian Singleton, Orangutan Foundation International president Mary Galdikas and executive liaison Freddie Galdikas, filmmaker and conservationist Kristin Rizzo, underwater photographer and conservationist Shawn Heinrichs, Jim Abernathy's Scuba Adventures owner and conservationist Jim Abernathy, Marine Dynamics founder Wilfred Chivell and senior white shark biologist Alison Tower, actors and conservationists (such as Shannon Elizabeth, Maggie Q, Kristin Bauer Van Straten, and Dan Richardson), Umani Springs Reintegration Unit head keeper Philip Okode, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust pilot Neville Sheldrick, KWS veterinarian Jeremiah Poghon, VOI Reintegration Unit head keeper Joseph Sauni, Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary founder Petronel Niewoudt, Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary Anti-Poaching Unit operators Deon Combrink and Zander Pelser, Ol Pejeta Conservancy CEO Richard Vigne and head keeper Zacharia Mutai, Social Compassion in Legislation founder Judie Mancuso and vice president Simone Reyes, senators (such as Nancy Skinner, Henry Stern, and Cathleen Galgiani), California state assembly members (such as Ash Kalra, Jesse Gabriel, Brian Maienschein, Timothy Grayson, and Marc Berman), Jane Unchained News Network founder Jane Velez-Mitchell, Social Compassion in Legislation lawyer Nicholas Sackett, International Anti-Poaching Foundation founder Damian Mander, Akashinga lead ranger Vimbai Kumire, NBA star and conservationist John Salley, Animal Recovery Mission founder Richard Cuoto and lead investigators Rodrigo Mello and Rachel Taylor, Olympic gold medalist David Verburg, and Kindred Spirits Sanctuary operators Logan and Tony Vindett, and racecar driver and conservationist Leilani Munter.
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