‘Sex and the City’ Star Takes On Elephant Poachers

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Kristin Davis screened her documentary 'Gardeners of Eden' at the U.S. Department of State as part of its Earth Day events.


Kristin Davis. (Photo: Ben Pruchnie/WireImage)


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April 22, 2015 By Joseph Williams

A veteran journalist and former White House correspondent for Politico, Joseph Williams is a freelance writer, blogger, and essayist in Washington, D.C.


In the time it takes to read this story, another African elephant will be dead, slaughtered to feed a seemingly insatiable global appetite for ivory. Yet if the massacre isn’t halted—and soon—an ancient, graceful species that once roamed the earth in the tens of millions could vanish within a generation, jeopardizing humanity as well as the environment.

That urgent message is at the heart of Gardeners of Eden, a powerful documentary produced by Kristin Davis, an actor best known as the kindhearted but lovelorn yuppie Charlotte York on the hit TV show Sex and the City. In real life, Davis is a passionate environmental activist committed to saving African elephants, one at a time if necessary.

With elephants vanishing from the wild, “I feel like it’s a tipping point,” said Davis, who screened the 61-minute film at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., as part of its Earth Day events. Poachers, she added, “have no qualms about anything they’re doing. They’ve committed themselves to the dark side. And that’s why the rest of us have to stand up and say we actually care. We have to tell our lawmakers we care.”

The film, which premieres on May 6 on our sister network, Pivot TV, shows how elephants have been mutilated, stressed, and hunted to the brink of extinction. The story centers on the heroic elephant-rescue efforts of The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a wildlife conservation center on the edge of Kenya’s Tsavo National Park—a prime hunting ground for poachers.

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