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The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Savage in Sodwana Bay

The South African trailblazers seeking to change how wildlife documentaries are made

Dercio Muha Gomate photographs a large potato bass with an underwater camera
Geographic explorer Dercio Muha Gomate, with a large potato bass in Sodwana Bay, South Africa, is one of the talents from the NEWF. Photograph: Jahawi Bertolli/National Geographic

When Pragna Parsotam-Kok and Noel Kok made a wildlife series for South African TV in 2015, they were struck by how challenging it was to access animals to film and how few other African wildlife documentary makers there were.

Their response was to set up the not-for-profit Nature Environment and Wildlife Conservation Trust (NEWF) and to host a conference for African wildlife film-makers, the first taking place in 2017.

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