Killing the Shepherd Film crew filming children in a rural setting in Zambia with a thatched-roof structure.

Conservation Storytellers

We are a cinematic, media-driven cultural strategy organization working to restore public understanding of modern conservation. We are not a lobbying group or a membership-based advocacy organization. We operate at the level of culture, using film and strategic storytelling to shape how conservation is understood by mainstream audiences, institutions and decision-makers.

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Mother nature doesn't practice conservation, people do.

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Tom Opre

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Zambia. Scotland. The American West. Three continents. One larger story.

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The Last Keeper documentary - Person in a field of purple flowers holding a walking stick and a bag
Antelope standing in a grassy field with mountains in the background
Filming children in front of a thatched-roof hut in Zambia for the film Killing the Shepherd.
The Real Yellowstone documentary - Person on horseback in a field with cows and trees in the background
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About our Films

A remote community in Africa, led by a woman chief, attempts to break the stranglehold of absolute poverty by waging a war on wildlife poaching. For decades illegal wildlife poaching by both subsistence and bush meat gangs has led to the government declaring this community’s homeland “depleted” of wildlife.

In the remote glens of Scotland, a quiet war is unfolding.

For centuries, rural families—keepers, stalkers, ghillies, and crofters—have lived and worked on the land. They’ve shaped it, protected it, passed it down. Today, they’re being erased.

The Real Yellowstone delves into the lives of ranching families who find themselves at the heart of a complex struggle. As stewards of both livestock and wildlife, these ranchers, whose families have worked the land for generations, face a web of rising real estate prices, predator attacks, and a powerful conservation movement that seeks to reshape the landscape they call home.

Killing the Shepherd Documentary - Group of Zambian patrol men in green uniforms holding weapons and snares in a natural setting
The Last Keeper Documentary - Scottish Man sitting with his dogs in a field of heather

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Killing the Shepherd

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