The courage of the film’s elephant advocates makes for a pulse-racing adventure with real-life urgency. The Ivory Game chronicles the incredibly vital battle to save the world’s elephants. It has caused rampant poaching of elephants, leading to possible extinction with our lifetimes. The lucrative ivory trade supports organized crime, facilitates corruption, and flows back to Africa where it enriches warlords and tempts impoverished soldiers into poaching. Crosta, facilitating anonymous tips from whistle-blowers and investigating traffickers, and the work of the Wildlife Justice Commission. As suspenseful as any thriller, the film follows the Tanzanian task force leader, Elisifa Ngowi, hunting down the crime lord Shetani, AKA ‘the Devil’: the Chinese activist, Hongxiang Huang, undertaking covert missions to document illegal trade Mr. The Ivory Game filmmakers interweave the stories of multiple advocates fighting against both supply and demand.
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Legitimate businesses and business people participate in and facilitate the laundering of illicit ivory through the legal Chinese ivory market by importing ‘new’ ivory as pre-ban, antique, and trophy hunting ivory manipulating the ivory registration system and selling the existing huge illegal raw ivory stocks, totaling more than 1,000 tons, according to WildLeaks’ sources, currently in the hands of a few Chinese traders.ĭirectors Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson This is but one aspect of the ivory supply chain. On the black market, hundreds of tons of ivory flow through China annually. In China, there is a legal market for ivory within the limits of five tons per year, a policy that provides a door for illicit ivory to enter the legal market. Award-winning director Richard Ladkani and Academy Award® nominated director Kief Davidson filmed undercover for 16 months infiltrating and documenting the deep-rooted corruption at the heart of the global ivory trafficking crisis. It is this footage that is presented in The Ivory Game film narrative. Undercover footage from this 2015 investigation exposed the areas where illegal ivory opportunistically enters the legal ivory market, and where China’s legal trade system and legal businesses are exploited to launder illicit ivory onto the legal market.
ELI published its powerful “Blending Ivory: Old Loopholes, New Hopes” investigative report in January 2016. The Ivory Game is a Netflix Documentary produced by Terra Mater Factual Studios and Vulcan Productions, in collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio. Andrea Crosta, among other protagonists, as it reveals the dark world of the complex international ivory supply chain. The Ivory Game, premiered at the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festivals 2016, features the co-founder of Earth League International – ELI (formerly Elephant Action League) and the whistleblowing initiative WildLeaks, Mr. WILDLEAKS’ POWERFUL “BLENDING IVORY” INVESTIGATION IN CHINA FEATURED IN THE NETFLIX AND LEONARDO DICAPRIO PRODUCED DOCUMENTARY ‘THE IVORY GAME’
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