Documentary Film: Racing Extinction

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Date/Time:Tuesday, 01 Mar 2016 at 8:00 pm
Location:Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:Free
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Phone:515-294-9934
Channel:Lecture Series
Categories:Diversity Lectures Live Green Student activities
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Racing Extinction is the latest documentary from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and reveals the black-market trade in endangered species. Part of the University Symposium on Sustainability

The film, which aired in December on the Discovery Channel, takes up the man-made causes behind what biologists call the sixth mass extinction - the spate of plant and animal losses that threatens to eradicate up to half of all living species on Earth within this century. Psyihoyos is known for using innovative, high-tech gadgets to covertly document used the tragic slaughter of dolphins in Japan for his film The Cove.

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