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(underconstruction) This page is being created because an error was found in the credits of the 2005 documentary film entitled Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars. While the name of the lead Cinematographer is correct, the link goes to another person.

Christopher Lance Jenkins (born May 1970, Laramie,Wyoming) is an American Documentary Filmmaker and Cinematographer notable for, among other things, the 2005 documentary Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars,

in which he spent 455 days walking 2000 miles across Africa and the 2008 documentary The Matador in which he and pilot Peter Ragg spent months flying 70,000 miles in a small plane at low altitude, taking photographs every twenty seconds. Both projects were sponsored by the National Geographic Society, which produced articles and documentaries about the projects. He graduated in 1994 from the University of Wyoming, and then received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship where he studied in Chile and directed a large-scale mural project with orphaned children. Soon after, he was selected to participate in a UNCHR "Camp Sadako" program in Kenya In 1984 he joined the Missouri Botanical Garden. He completed his doctorate on the western lowland gorilla in 1997, while also surveying large forest blocks by aeroplane and working to create and manage the Dzanga-Sangha and Nouabale-Ndoki parks in the Central African Republic and Congo. He has worked for the Wildlife Conservation Society since 1990, and spent two years with the National Geographic Society in Washington writing up the results from the MegaTransect. In 2006, Fay and National Geographic photographer Michael Nichols traveled to Zakouma National Park to document the danger poachers create for the world's largest remaining concentration of elephants. Their trip resulted in Ivory Wars, Last Stand in Zakouma. He has testified before the United States Congress on the need for preservation of wildlife and habitat.