Based on a magazine essay written by noted best-selling
novelist Jonathan Franzen for
The New Yorker and widely
republished around the world,
Emptying the Skies
chronicles the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds
in southern Europe. Songbird populations have been
drastically declining for several decades, and a number
of species face imminent extinction. The film explores
the wonder of these tiny globe-flying marvels, millions
of which are unlawfully slaughtered each year for large
sums on the black market, and follows an intrepid squad
of pan-European bird-lovers who risk their lives waging
a secret war against poachers, disrupting illegal trapping
and freeing as many birds as possible.
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