New Greenpeace video is a hack into Disney's classic “The Lion King”

Dec 21, 2013 23:51 GMT  ·  By

Greenpeace and Studio Smack have released a new video showing what a world without wildlife would look like. The video, made available to you above, it basically a hack into Disney's “The Lion King.”

Long story short, Greenpeace and Studio Smack have removed all of the animals that appear at the beginning of the movie when Simba is introduced to the world.

The end goal was to show that, should the world's biodiversity disappear, all be would be left with would be landscapes.

“Hack into Disney's classic The Lion King where we removed all animals from the movie's title sequence, leaving us with the beautiful yet oppressive backgrounds of the African savanna,” Studio Smack writes in the video's description on Vimeo.

According to Mongabay, a 2010-study showed that big mammal population in Africa had dropped by as much 59% over the past 40 years. What's more, the continent's lion population is now said to be 70% smaller than it was back in 1960.

Poaching, the bushmeat trade and habitat loss are the chief culprits behind Africa's losing its biodiversity, conservationists explain.