/Diary of anniversaries

march 03: 
The Furious Five (2024) on the occasion of UN World Wildlife Day (since 1973)

The UN World Wildlife Day is a day of remembrance introduced as part of the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. In light of this, I am showing the Furious Five, the sidekicks of the panda Poo from the film series "Kung Fu Panda". In the fourth – annoyingly bad, I saw it in the cinema – part, the Furious Five do not appear at all. This is due to the high-calibre and therefore incredibly expensive casting of their dubbing voices: the film would have had to earn two billion dollars at the box office to make a profit if the five stars mentioned below had continued to voice their characters. One of the producers spoke of 20 million dollars for one line from Angelina Jolie aka Tigress.
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In real life, the Furious Five, with the exception of the crane, are considered endangered species.
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Image 1: Monkey (Jackie Chan). 
Four of the six great ape species are threatened with extinction.
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Image 2: Mantis (Seth Rogan).  
In Germany, the praying mantis is on the Red List of endangered species.
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Image 3: Crane (David Cross).  
Thanks to extensive international and national conservation measures, the crane population is no longer considered endangered.
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Image 4: Tigress (Angelina Jolie). 
The tiger is highly endangered. In the last 150 years, it has lost almost 95% of its habitat.
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Image 5: Viper (Lucy Liu). 
Endangered in Europe.