Humongous Conservation Area Created in Africa

A new conservation area called KAZA has been established in Africa that unites five countries and dwarfs previous wildlife conservation programs. It symbolizes cooperation between nations as well as the fact that wildlife doesn’t share our concept of boundaries.

Spanning an area of Africa almost the size of Italy, the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, or KAZA, will encompass 36 national parks, game reserves, wildlife-management areas, and tourism areas, according to WWF, a conservation organization offering both technical and financial support to the initiative.

In 2011 presidents of five African nations—Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—signed a treaty establishing the huge protected region, which has been in the works for several years. (See “Five-Country Conservation Area Would Aid Africa’s Largest Elephant Herd.”)

“It’s quite unique, inNew Pa. reality series focuses on director's chair

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Moore plans to answer that question, sort of, through a Pittsburgh-based reality TV series called "The Chair" that he's producing along with home-grown producer Zachary Quinto and Quinto's partner, Corey Moosa.

Moore, who produced "American Pie" and more recently "Promised Land," a drama starring Matt Damon that looks critically at the gas drilling boom in Pennsylvania, said he got the idea when he took over production of another Damon movie, "Good Will Hunting," released in 1997. Mel Gibson was originally set to make the picture, something Moore believes would have resulted in quite a different movie.

Fascinated by that "What if?" scenario, Moore and the others are giving two little-known directors about $850,000 each to produce a theatrical film from