Civilian wildlife preservation activists and I, a maker of films about wild animals went on a journey to Yanbian, China searching fro traces of wildlife that have already disappeared in Korea. Yanbian is important because a handful of animals such as leopards, tigers, lynxes, fox, sika deer and Asiatic black bear? Which all disappeared in Korea during its rapid industrialization - still survive there. However, the reality of wildlife in Yanbian is dismal. Human inhabitants of...more

Civilian wildlife preservation activists and I, a maker of films about wild animals went on a journey to Yanbian, China searching fro traces of wildlife that have already disappeared in Korea. Yanbian is important because a handful of animals such as leopards, tigers, lynxes, fox, sika deer and Asiatic black bear? Which all disappeared in Korea during its rapid industrialization - still survive there. However, the reality of wildlife in Yanbian is dismal. Human inhabitants of the wildlife preservation area are in sharp conflict with the few remaining tigers. Wild animals are on their way to extinction in agonizing pain, shackled by market logic and capitalism. less