The film "Wild and Free" was shot for the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Russia. The film was shot in the Primorsky Territory, Southern Siberia and Chukotka. The famous scientist-zoologist and TV presenter Nikolai Drozdov voiced the picture. The film premiered on the RTD website on April 6.

The main characters of the project were Tatyana Minenko from the Bear Patrol in the Chukchi village on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, ornithologist Igor Karjakin, restoring the population of Saker Falcons, and Pavel Fomenko, head of the rare species department of the Amur branch of WWF Russia, a specialist in feline.

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“I think I have done a lot with my colleagues. But there is still a little bit left - we need to make sure that we guarantee the survival of rare species in the wild, ”said Fomenko.

In the film, all the characters use quite ordinary devices for tracking predators, such as GPS trackers and camera traps. Fund experts said that now they have started using artificial intelligence to count wild animals. For example, one of the programs now counts the number of saigas. Volunteers are provided with quadrocopters so that they do not take risks, coming close to bears or walruses.

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The famous TV presenter Nikolai Drozdov shared his impressions of the work on “Wild and Free” with RT. It was he who voiced the material and studied the stories of all three heroes of the film in order to have time to tell about each of them. According to Nikolai Nikolaevich, “Wild and Free,” he voiced in just one day.

“Of course, the movie is wonderful. The RTD channel shot it for the 25th anniversary of WWF Russia. For a quarter of a century, the fund’s employees have been exerting so much effort to preserve the Red Book and rare animals in order to preserve, and sometimes even increase the territory of reserves, to fight against poaching. And the film was beautifully shot, and the people there are simply amazing, ”said Drozdov.

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“We made a film about animals, but it turned out about people. Our heroes endure what we experienced with them on the set, our whole life, ”film director Natalia Karachkova told the audience.

Watch the movie "Wild and Free" on the RTD website.