We kill what we love
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | We kill what we love |
| Original title | Animal Traffic |
| Country of production |
United Kingdom United States Australia Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | English |
| year | 1986 |
| length | 30 or 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 9 in 1 season |
| Broadcasting cycle |
weekly |
| genre | Animal documentation |
| Theme music | Dominion |
| idea | Ron Orders |
| music | Latin Quarter |
| First broadcast | 1988 on Channel 4 |
| German-language first broadcast |
1989 on First German Television |
We kill what we love (original title Animal Traffic ) is a nine-part documentary series from 1986 that deals with endangered animal species . The Ron Orders and Arpad Bondy series is a co-production of Channel 4 , the National Geographic Explorer series , the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Westdeutscher Rundfunk . The title song Dominion wasrecorded in German and Englishby the Latin Quarter group. In 1989 a companion book was published with the title We kill what we love. The business with protected animals and plants , published by Dieter Kaiser.
action
Despite strict laws, the worldwide illegal trade in live animals and animal products is booming. The demand for turtle eggs and tiger skins has brought these animals to the brink of extinction. At the same time, the rarity of the animals increases profits in the illegal trade in wild animals . The series accompanies illegal traders in the rainforests of Indonesia and South America or in the African steppe and it introduces collectors in Europe and North America. She also reports on the use of chimpanzees in medical research, on cockatoo hunting in Australia and on the hunt for caimans in Colombia , whose skin is used to make luxury items.
The following episodes were produced:
- Thirty-one tigers
- Expensive skin
- The crocodile in the bathtub
- The last flight of the moth
- For a touch of the exotic
- ... because they are so human
- Remaining stock nature. Trade in exotic plants
- Until all seas are dead seas
- With best regards from Australia
Awards
Animal Traffic was awarded the Ökomedia Prize in 1988.
literature
- Dieter Kaiser (Ed.): We kill what we love - The business with protected animals and plants, Hoffmann & Campe, 1989. ISBN 345-508-338-2
- Michael Huxley (Editor): The Geographical magazine , Volume 60, Geographical Press, 1988. pp. 51-52.