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The application video that got Jin Pyn selected for Animal Planet's Unearthed, out of thousands.

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Gee thanks for your comment, Biby!

The glacier footage was from Greenland. There'll definitely be less ice there now. Africa was the first place I went to on my own for holiday. There was a night out in the national parks that we had a visitor whilst we were in our tents - hyena. Ran out, onto the vehicle where I could see the animal. I'm fortunate to have been selected by Animal Planet to re-visit the African wilderness, this time even better! More up-close-and-personal with all the animals, 3 weeks right in the middle of the wilderness where the animals came up to visit, in the most ethically run private game resort I've come across, and all to do nothing (while, not quite nothing), but to watch and capture all that animal behaviour and that breathtaking beauty on film! The African sunrise and sunset always so mesmerising - the splashes of colour are always different, and I've never seen SO much animal action in my life!

Jin Pyn on Animal Planet

Jin Pyn's in the news again!

This time for being one of six selected from thousands of worldwide applicants for Animal Planet's original 4-part series Unearthed.

Unearthed will be broadcast worldwide in 160 countries for a consecutive 4 weeks so Jin Pyn will be a familiar face worldwide by then!

The debut times for Unearthed are as follow:

Singapore & Hongkong: 4 April 9pm
Bangkok: 4 April 8pm
India: 8 April, 8pm
Australia & NZ: 4 April, 8.30pm.
UK: 8 April, 7 pm
Brazil: 12 April, 9pm
Mexico: 12 April, 10pm

For timings in other countries, please select the country or region's website to check. Selection's available on the bottom right corner of the webpage http://www.animalplanet.co.uk/unearthed/contestants/index.shtml

WATCH JIN PYN'S FINAL FILM! GO TO
HTTP://WWW.ANIMALPLANET.CO.UK/UNEARTHED/CONTESTANTS/
INDEX.SHTML.


Sky, UK

Berita Harian, Malaysia








Excelsior, Mexico
















TODAY. Singapore












Sunday Times, Australia


LIVE RTHK, flagship Hongkong English radio station interview:
http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/radio3/morning_brew/20070411.html

To listen:
- click the clip and listen by Windows Media Player
- click the 4th timer 54:58 at the top right hand corner, pull the timer to 12:17

TODAY's feature

TODAY, Friday, November 17 2006

THIS LITERARY GREENHORN HAS A GREEN MESSAGE TO SPREAD
by Ashraf Safdar

THERE are resounding symmetries between children and animals.

So it makes sense that first-time novelist Lee Jin Pyn, 31, has brought the two together - in a children's book about animals.

"We have so many social norms to live by; kids and animals don't have that," said Lee, who was given an $8,000 grant by the Media Development Authority to write The Elephant and the Tree.

"When it rains, adults complain. But kids jump into the rain and play."

That's what really connects children and animals, said lee. Both are spontaneous and are naturally curious. And her book is made in a way which will engage this curiosity.

The book, which is printed on black paper, uses green ink to tell the story of a friendship between an elephant and a tree.

The green, symbolically, represents ideas of deforestation, birth and renewal.

The images, meanwhile, are drawn simply - a stream is depicted with a few wavy strokes - because, as Lee believes, "a child will see a line as something else".

The Elephant and the Tree is available from all major bookstores for $18.90. Five per cent of the proceeds will be donated to elephant welfare organisations and Lee hopes that her work will, in no small part, "give a voice to the voiceless".

This, however, is not the first time this former Singapore Airlines flight attendant put her neck out for these "voiceless" animals.

Earlier this year, she and siz other participants were selected from 34,000 people worldwide to take part in Unearthed, a reality TV series during which she learnt howw to film natural history at South Africa's Shamwari Game Reserve.

Unearthed is scheduled to be aired on the Animal Planet in April next year.

Lee said she has always wanted to put the spotlight on the lives of animals through the media - which she certainly has now, on print and on screen.