Last October 2020, we had a great time filming with the awesome crew that traveled to Challis, Idaho to film “Off The Beaten Path: Wild Mustangs” for the Alhurra TV documentary on America’s wild horses for public television. We filmed at Wild Love Preserve, on the Challis HMA, and host Tony Naddaf interviewed the BLM and some of the stakeholders we've worked with over the last decade+. It has been a much-appreciated opportunity to share our story and wild horse conservation work with this extended global audience.
Below is a 10-min segment and interviews with Andrea and Stone Gossard, along with the 1-hr documentary on YouTube. All of the interviews are in English and make up the majority of the show, however the narrative by the host is still in Arabic. Note: Footage includes demonstration of remotely administering the fertility control vaccine, Native PZP-1YR.
Below is a 10-min segment and interviews with Andrea and Stone Gossard, along with the 1-hr documentary on YouTube. All of the interviews are in English and make up the majority of the show, however the narrative by the host is still in Arabic. Note: Footage includes demonstration of remotely administering the fertility control vaccine, Native PZP-1YR.
Watch stakeholder interviews.
WATCH ABOVE: This 30-minute segment from the one-hour documentary includes interviews with some of the stakeholders Andrea Maki and Wild Love Preserve have brought together and worked with over the last 11+ years in Idaho and nationally. While host Tony Naddaf's descriptive intros are in Arabic, all of the interviews are in English. We hope you will find this segment and the respective views of stakeholders helpful and of interest as it relates to the work of Wild Love Preserve and conflict resolution.
Stakeholder interviews include Andrea Maki, Wild Love Preserve Founder + President; Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam; Stephen Bauchman, Challis Creek Cattle Co; Kevin Lloyd, Idaho BLM, Challis - Wild Horse + Range Specialist; John W. Turner, Ph.D., Dept. of Physiology + Pharmacology at University of Toledo College of Medicine; Kim Frank, Executive Director, The Science and Conservation Center; and Steve Adams, Executive Director, Youth Employment Program in Salmon, Idaho.
Film footage by Andrea Maki features Challis-Idaho wild horses at Wild Love Preserve and on the range, remote darting with the fertility vaccine Native PZP, and the 2016 Science and Conservation training workshop taught by Kayla Grams with WLP stakeholders and Idaho BLM. Helicopter roundup footage is courtesy of Ginger Kathrens, founder of The Cloud Foundation.
Imperative to note, remotely darting wild horses does not harm them, albeit no one enjoys getting a shot in the rump. Watch the video to learn about the production and implementation of Native PZP in the field.
WATCH BELOW: Full Length Documentary on YouTube. *All Interviews Are In English.
Alhurra is the United States-based public Arabic-language satellite TV channel that has been broadcasting news and current affairs programming to more than 16.5 million people in 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa since 2004. Alhurra is operated by the Middle East Broadcasting Networks based in Virginia and is funded by the U.S. Congress through the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
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