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WWF Russia released a unique mini-series "Crane Stories"

WWF Russia released a unique mini-series "Crane Stories"
10 july 2021
WWF Russia has announced a 13-episode mini-series “Crane Stories” about the life of cranes and their neighbors. It was released to support the project for the conservation of migratory birds and the restoration of wetlands in the Amur ecoregion. The voice-over was performed by the singers of SOPRANO Turetsky art group and released on WWF Russia YouTube channel
“Crane
Stories” is a compilation of the best archived, as well as completely new crane
video footage of WWF Russia Amur branch. The author of most of the footage is a
photographer and cameraman Igor Ishchenko, a friend of WWF. He collected the
footage over two years: “The series was filmed on the territory of the
Zeisko-Bureinskaya plain in Amurskaya province. Most of the shots were taken in
the Muravyevsky Wildlife Refuge. Today, this area has the highest density of cranes,
especially white hooded cranes,” says Igor Ishchenko.
The
author of the narration text is the Earth Keeper Nadezhda Kuprikova, the winner
of the creative brief texts competition for the series initiated by WWF-Russia Amur
branch as part of the Year for Cranes-2020 campaign. The singers of SOPRANO
Turetsky art group brilliantly performed the voice-over of the series.
The
series tells about the crane habitats, their important role in the ecosystem sustainability,
about the main threats to birds, and how they can be saved. The viewer will
learn a huge number of interesting facts about these birds, for example, how
they protect their nests: there are cases when they even chased bears out of
their breeding sites. There are also romantic parts, which contains amazingly
beautiful shots of cranes dances during breeding period, when partners fly up,
jump and bow to each other. And of course, in “Crane Stories” a large role is
given to the negative impact of human activity on the birds life: about draining
swamps, burning dry grasslands necessary for nesting, etc.
The
series was released to support WWF-Russia project “Conservation of migratory
birds connecting people and ecoregions”. It aims to restore and effectively
manage the wetlands of the Amur ecoregion and to preserve cranes and the Oriental
stork on the Northeast Asian Flyway. The work will be carried out in the Amur ecoregion,
where the issue of habitat loss due to the development of agriculture and
mining is very sensitive, and the number of Red-crowned cranes has reached
critically low numbers. Experts will analyze the effect of pesticides on
wetlands, inspect the breeding sits and prepare the map of cranes' nests. After
that the preventive measures will be developed and implemented to reduce the
impact of agriculture on these rare birds and to improve territorial protection
of breeding sites.
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