Conference
Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Evening with Ol Pejeta Conservancy: Last Male on Earth
This fundraising event is for Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya (home of Sudan, the last male white rhino) where we have been given exclusive access by the director, Floor van der Meulen to screen her award-winning film “Last Male on Earth'.
The evening will also include an opportunity to hear from Ol Pejeta about their pioneering conservation work and use of film to raise awareness and understanding about wildlife conservation and endangered species.
Refreshments will be on sale – with 100% profit being donated to Ol Pejeta Conservancy (UK).
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About the film
In March 2018, the last male northern white rhino remaining on earth died. His name was Sudan, and after 42 years on this planet he had lived his - and his species' - life to the very end.
'The Last Male on Earth' shows his last years on earth, in which he was not alone. Ever since he was the last one, armed bodyguards protected him, tourists were standing in line to take a photo with him, journalists rushed to Kenya to tell his story and, still now, scientists are determined to find ways to reproduce his species. What is so attractive about the threat of extinction? How does this reflect on us?
A difficult topic served in a light and elegant, but serious form. For even though the irony of man's (self) destructive dominance on earth has become clear to most people, Sudan stands heavily and majestically in the midst of it all, like a mirror image of our own megalomania. Floor van der Meulen's debut film testifies to an extraordinary talent for balancing the many parallel narratives of the rhinoceros Sudan's last days and in the human tragicomedy that unfolds around him.
Watch the trailer
Please visit the website to find out more about Ol Pejeta's pioneering conservation work in Kenya. If you are inspired by the work of Pejeta make a donation to Ol Pejeta Conservancy UK charity on a pay as you feel basis.
If you’d like to support Ol Pejeta by doing some shopping then they have a beautiful charitable collection of limited edition scarves designed by their Global Ambassador and award winner photographer, Mia Kora.
On a smaller budget, there is also a fabulous range of organic, renewable and circular Ol Pejeta T-shirts, hoodies, and other clothing for sale on their online shop.
Their clothing range re-purposes the waste at the end of the process and uses it to make new ones at the start. They only use certified organic cotton and print on demand technology powered by renewable energy. Products are designed from the start to be re-manufactured over and over again. The cycle itself is renewable. There is no waste.
All items are available for distribution from the UK and delivered worldwide with profits from sales being used to support the work of Ol Pejeta.
