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IMDb: 7.2 / 10.

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Story: A look at the use and proliferation of illegal wildlife products throughout the world.

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 it. As Allan Thornton, President of the Environmental Investigation Agency, says: The world has two choices. We can have elephants. Or we can have ivory trade. We cant have both.

Worldwide, the illegal trade in endangered animals is booming. With disastrous consequences: Endangered animals like tigers, elephants and rhinos are disappearing faster than ever before. The reasons are the rapidly increasing demand, especially in Asia, and unscrupulous investors speculating on the extinction of rare animals. A film about the ruthless exploitation of nature, the billion-dollar business with rare animals, and the international wildlife smuggling mafia.

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