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AUDIENCE AWARD, BEST SHORT DOC - Hot Docs, Palm Springs Film Festival, and InterFilm Berlin | JACKSON WILD Conservation • Technology • Endangered Species • The Environment • Ecosystems • Climate Change Date of Completion: 2022 | Run Time: 16 minutes​​ | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Directed & Produced: Josh Izenberg & Brett Marty | Edited: Jen Bradwell | Director of Photography: Phil Briggs Biologist Tim Shields has watched desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert plummet since the 1990s. The latest threat? Ballooning populations of ravens, thanks to increased human activity in the desert. Tired of "taking notes on a quiet catastrophe," Tim quits traditional observational biology in exchange for direct intervention. Building specialized drones, desert rovers, laser cannons, and fake exploding tortoise shells, Tim is waging a technological war on ravens in a last ditch effort to save the species, and prove that innovation, technology, and