African wildlife films try to inspire amid poaching scourge

JOHANNESBURG (AP) --- A documentary film about rhino poaching won awards at film festivals in Europe and the United States this year. But since bringing "STROOP: Journey into the Rhino Horn War" home to South Africa, its makers have struggled for the same buzz in a country whose rhino population, the biggest in the world, has been under siege for a decade. "Overseas, we had this amazing success," said Bonn de Bod, narrator of the film, whose title refers to the Afrikaans word for poach. "And we come back home and we have cinema distributors and even the media telling us that, 'Look, the public is tired of hearing about rhino poaching' or 'Our editor is tired of talking about rhino...

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