Jackie Turner, a U-M undergraduate with a double major in the Program in the Environment (PitE) and Screen Arts and Cultures, found that her interests in environment, sustainability, developing nations and documentary filmmaking converged when she traveled to Mpala, a 48,000-acre wildlife conservancy and biodiversity research center in Kenya, as part of a class taught by SNRE professors Rebecca Hardin and Johannes Foufopoulos. In the three-credit course, "Sustainability Challenges and Opportunities in East Africa," students worked on sustainability as related to extreme climates, demographic and economic change and human/wildlife interaction; collaborated with a team to support food, water and energy security in the region; and conducted data collection in the field.

In addition, Turner filmed.

"Problems as deeply complicated as human-wildlife conflicts are not easy to solve as hard to explain to someone who is completely outside the problem. Yet the people who can help are outside the problem,"  Turner said. "This is why I believe documentary is so important; media is a powerful force and I believe that documentary can help explain complex problems in developing countries." 

This link leads to a video that is the result of Turner's work.