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Gambling on Extinction

Gambling on Extinction

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

2015•52m•6.0/10
Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb
6.0/10(1)

Today, only 3,200 tigers roam in the wild. At the current rate of poaching, elephants, rhinos and tigers living in the wild will be extinct in our lifetime. Who are the global players in this deadly game of power, greed and profit? Who pulls the strings and who are the customers? And why have ivory and rhino horn become perfect investment opportunities?

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Production

Real To Reel, A&O Buero

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

John Hume

Self (rhino farmer)

Peter Knights

Self (WildAid)

Julian Rademeyer

Self

Grace Gabriel

Self (International Fund for Animal Welfare)

Kobus de Wet

Self (SANParks forensic expert)

Jeff Douglas

Narrator

Eric Sagwe

Self (Wildlife Works ranger)

Paula Kahumbu

Self (WildlifeDirect.org)

Sam Mnisi

Self (ranger) (as Big Sam Mnisi)

Loot Schultz

Self (Pungwe Bush Camp owner)

Thomas Ewing

Self (Center for Advanced Defense Studies)

Do Doan Hoang

Self (journalist)

Allan Thornton

Self (Environmental Investigation Agency)

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