‘The Ivory Game’ Trailer: Hey Jerks, Maybe Stop Killing Elephants For Their Tusks
By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 2016 4:00 pm EST
Directors Richard Ladkani (The Devil’s Miner) and Kief Davidson (A LEGO Brickumentary) spent 16 months with a team of intelligence operatives, undercover activists, passionate frontline rangers and tough-as-nails conservationists to infiltrate the corrupt global network of ivory trafficking. The result is The Ivory Game, a documentary of this surprisingly dangerous criminal underworld that shows the total lack of respect given to some of the most majestic animals on the planet, all for some rich jerks.
Watch The Ivory Game trailer after the jump.
This is why we can’t have nice things. Elephants are being killed and are nearing extinction in Africa because some a**holes decided ivory was something they wanted. And as the population of elephants goes down, the price of ivory, or white gold as it’s known, goes up. So these poachers actually want to see more elephants die. It’s just despicable and disgusting. This isn’t even something that’s a hot-button political issue like climate change. There’s no good reason for this to be happening at all.
In the time this post was put together, a couple more elephants were killed, and this documentary shows how ridiculously dangerous the world is that makes the trading of ivory possible. It’s no different than drug cartels in Mexico or criminal dealings in the mafia. Again, this is all so people can have a tusk on their wall or some expensive item made of ivory that sits on a shelf.
The Ivory Game hits Netflix on November 4, as well as theaters in New York and Los Angeles.
