Gambling on Extinction (2015) Online
- Original Title :
- Gambling on Extinction
- Genre :
- Movie / Documentary
- Year :
- 2015
- Directror :
- Jakob Kneser
- Cast :
- John Hume,Peter Knights,Julian Rademeyer
- Writer :
- Jakob Kneser
- Type :
- Movie
- Time :
- 52min
- Rating :
- 7.8/10
GAMBLING ON EXTINCTION is a powerful documentary that takes you from the killing fields in Kenya and South Africa to the trading hubs of Vietnam and China with undercover investigators, rangers, ex-poachers, conservationists and buyers. Director Jakob Kneser exposes the lethal mechanisms of the global trade, the terrorist connection, explains who the customers are, what generates demand, and what can be done to stop the slaughter. This is a story about greed and a merciless battle over a limited resource: Wild elephants and rhinos. It is in fact the dark side of globalization: Ivory and rhino horn have become lucrative commodities. It is now a 20 billion dollar a year business, the most lucrative after drugs and weapons and has been taken over by powerful, connected, heavily armed international syndicates. As numbers go down the prices go up, making it a perverse futures market in extinction. Poaching is an international crime. It will take a concerted international response to stop ...
| Credited cast: | |||
 | John Hume | - | Himself (rhino farmer) |
 | Peter Knights | - | Himself (WildAid) |
 | Julian Rademeyer | - | Himself |
 | Do Doan Hoang | - | Himself (journalist) |
 | Paula Kahumbu | - | Herself (WildlifeDirect.org) |
 | Allan Thornton | - | Himself (Environmental Investigation Agency) |
 | Eric Sagwe | - | Himself (Wildlife Works ranger) |
 | Thomas Ewing | - | Himself (Center for Advanced Defense Studies) |
 | Sam Mnisi | - | Himself (ranger) (as Big Sam Mnisi) |
 | Kobus de Wet | - | Himself (SANParks forensic expert) |
 | Grace Gabriel | - | Herself (International Fund for Animal Welfare) |
 | Loot Schultz | - | Himself (Pungwe Bush Camp owner) |
| Jeff Douglas | - | Narrator |