New York: Wildlife feature film The Last Lions.

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New York: Wildlife feature film The Last Lions.

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Wildlife filmmakers make a feature film on lions known as The Last Lions.

23 February,2011 04:51 am

The wildlife filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert followed Ma di Tau and a rival pride of lions for two years, chronicling their battles with each other and their struggle for survival. For the husband and wife team, who have been photographing and filming animals in the wild for three decades, making the film was about trying to save a declining population.In the last 50 years, lion populations have plummeted from 450,000 to as few as 20,000. The couple said they were on the edge of danger almost every single day, but often times the insecurity did not come from the lions themselves.