The Bonn Convention supports the premiere of "DOLPHINS AND WHALES 3D: TRIBES OF THE OCEAN" (13th March 2008)
At close quarters the audience gets the chance to observe the last surviving nomads of the ocean. The film will be released at Cinemagnum 3D-Theatres in Berlin, Nuremberg und Sinsheim, beginning on February the 13th March 2008. It will also be shown in further digital 3D-Theatres nationwide. Due to the compelling IMAX(R) cinema technology and the first stereoscopic pictures taken, the film allows the audience to experience the life and the wildlife habitat like it has never done before. Come within touching distance of dolphins and Beluga Whales. Witness the love of a mother for her calf. Experience - and listen to the sound of - male humpback whales at close range. Encounter the biggest dolphin, the killer whale, king of the ocean, as well as the gentle Manatee. The documentary deals with the preservation of these animals in a very passionate way. The film brings the audience on a close encounter with cetaceans great and small, for example the humpback whale, the orcas and other dolphins. It took more than 3 years to catch the takings of DOLPHINS AND WHALES 3D: TRIBES OF THE OCEAN. Filming, which began in June 2004, required no less than 12 expeditions and 600 hours submerged.
“DOLPHINS AND WHALES 3D: TRIBES OF THE OCEAN” was produced by 3D Entertainment and McKinney Underwater Productions. In Germany the film can be rented from the 3D Entertainment-Rental Department in cooperation with Fantasia Film and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS).
CMS, also known as the Bonn Convention, is the only UN-Convention conserving dolphins and whales on their migration routes between their feeding grounds and the areas in which they give birth to and raise their calves.
CMS’s role is that of a global agent with the goal of reducing and mitigating threats to these animals and their habitats throughout the world’s oceans and rivers.
In response to the plight of these animals, CMS raises awareness of the endangered status of the global marine ecosystem. Through international agreements, CMS actively supports the conservation of these marine mammals throughout the world’s oceans.
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