“Magical Thinking”: Xiao Wen Ju by Tim Walker for W March 2012
Orphaned baby manatee rescued in the Amazon
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Animal of the Week Fact:
Instead of sweating, Matschie’s tree-kangaroo licks its forearms and allows the evaporation to help cool its body.
Film: Pumzi is a Kenyan science fiction short film written and directed by Wanuri Kahiu. It was screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of its New African Cinema program.
Pumzi, imagines a dystopian future 35 years after water wars have torn the world apart. East African survivors of the ecological devastation remain locked away in contained communities, but a young woman in possession of a germinating seed struggles against the governing council to bring the plant to Earth’s ruined surface.