Gambling on Extinction

EDUCATIONAL DIGITAL DOWNLOAD: For self-hosted school servers $400 (download above, includes caption file). For sales in Canada, please contact REEL to REEL DVDs Colleges/Universities, (includes Public Performance Rights) $159 K-12 Schools (includes PPRs) $79 Public Libraries (circulation only) $39 Public Screening (no admission charged)  $150 WATCH NOW ON THESE PLATFORMS GAMBLING ON EXTINCTION is a powerful documentary about greed and a merciless battle over a limited resource: wild elephants and rhinos. There is a war against nature raging in the savannahs and jungles of Africa and Asia. The illegal trade in wildlife is estimated to generate $20 billion per year. Wildlife crime is a highly organized business, luring unscrupulous investors and warlords. It’s the dark side of globalization, with the booming trade threatening not only major ecosystems but the stability of local communities and vulnerable economies. We are facing the greatest mass extinction since the era of the dinosaurs and as numbers go down, the prices go up, making it a perverse futures market in extinction. If poaching continue at the current pace, elephants and rhinos, living in the wild will be extinct in our lifetime. The slaughter is happening now, the deadly spiral towards extinction spinning faster than we can imagine. “The world has two choices: We can have elephants or we can have ivory trade. We can’t have both.” Allan Thornton Environmental Investigation Agency Director: Jakob Kneser Producers: Tristan Chytroschek, Anne Pick Distributor: Java Films (France) 2014 | 52 minutes | Closed Captioned A German-Canadian Treaty co-production between a&o buero and Real to Reel Productions Inc. © 2015 a&o buero film produktion/Reel Extinction Inc. FESTIVALS Environmental Film Fest Washington USA Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival Filmambiente Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Planeta Doc Brasil Wild & Scenic Film Festival USA Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival Malaysia SunChild Armenia Musuku Film Festival Gabon World Elephant Day in Kenya Cape Town Eco Film Festival South Africa TEFF Tasmanian Eco Film Festival Australia Germany- NaturVision Ludwigsburg won German Environmental and Sustainability Prize Darßer Naturfilmfestival won main prize in category „Man and Nature“ Greenscreen Eckernförde - nominated in category GREEN REPORT Slovakia- Ekotopfilm/ Envirofilm Bratislava, Winner of the Prize of the President of the Festival Committee Czech Republic- Life Science Film Festival Ekofilm, Brno, won 2nd place in Environmental Section Netherlands- WFFR 1. Rotterdam Wildlife Film Festival Estonia- Matsalu Nature Film Festival Estland - Special Prize of the Jury