Gambling on Extinction
Germany/Canada Co-production | Year: 2016 | Duration; 52 MINS English and German
In “Gambling on Extinction”, director Jakob Kneser, takes the viewer on a horrific journey, starting from the killing fields in Kenya and South Africa to the trading hubs of Vietnam and China. Joined by undercover investigators, rangers, ex-poachers, conservationists and buyers, Jakob exposes the lethal mechanisms of the global trade in endangered species, the terrorist connection, the customers, and the champions working to end this environmental disaster. 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 can’t have both.”
Director
Jakob Kneser
Writers
Anne Pick and Jakob Kneser
Producers
Anne Pick and Tristan Chytroschek
Executive Producers
Anne Pick and Robert Tasso Putz
Story Editor
Anne Pick
Narrator
Jeff Douglas
Co-Production Partners
A&O Buero and Real to Reel Productions
Distribution
Java Films, France, Real to Reel Productions, Canada

Camera / DOP
Russell Gienapp
Sound
Chris Miller, David Jalenga, Andre Feldman, Lisa Higgins
Music
Mark Korven
Editor
Rob Rusic
Additional Photography
Robin Dimbleby, Joan Poggio, Ian Miller, Andrea Nebeling, Steven Cassidy