This is a story is 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. Gambling on Extinction 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. We expose the lethal mechanisms of the global trade, the terrorist connection, explain what generates demand, and what can be done to stop the slaughter.

A CO-PRODUCTION BY
a&o buero und Real to Reel Films Canada

AWARDS
Special Prize of Prince Rainier III in Monaco, Deutscher Naturfilmpreis, Deutscher Umwelt- und Naturschutzpreis, Erster Preis Planeta.Doc, Gewinner Ekotop Bratislava, Gewinner Matsalu Nature Film Festival, Vaasa Wildlife Finnland – Bester Naturschutzfilm

FESTIVALS
Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Environmental Film Festival Washington, Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam, Green Screen Film Festival, NaturVision Ludwigsburg, Darsser Naturfilmfestival, Life Sciences Film Festival Prague, Filmambiente and Planeta Doc Brasil, Tasmanian Eco Film Festival, Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival, Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival, Cape Town Eco Film Festival, Ekofilm Brno, SunChild International Environmental Film Festival

BROADCASTERS
ZDF/ARTE, Animal Planet Canada, Bell Media CTV & W5 Canada, Radio Canada, SBS, SVT, ORF, DR, NRK, YLE, VRT, TG4, TVP, Çeská televize, TVI, Yes Doku

SUPPORTED BY
Rogers Cable Network Fund Canada, MEDIA, Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Canadian Film and Video Production Tax Credit, Ontario Media Development Corporation

DIRECTED AND WRITTEN BY
Jakob Kneser

PRODUCERS
Tristan Chytroschek
Anne Pick
Robert Tasso Pütz

EDITOR
Rob Ruzic

CAMERA
Russell Gienapp
Joan Poggio
Ian Miller
Andreas Nebeling
Steven Cassidy
Christian Eichenauer

SOUND
Chris Miller
David Jalenga
Andre Feldman
Lisa Higgins

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Marc Korven

SOUND DESIGN
Hartmut Teschemacher

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Peter Kovalik

RESEARCH
Kadon Douglas
Monica Penner
Anni Brück

PRODUCTION MANAGERS
Cornelia Principe
Sharyn McMahon

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS / FIXERS
Gemila Li
Dang Minh Ha
Robin Dimbleby
Geoff Shar
Rick Matthews

DURATION
52 mins

YEAR
2015