
Where Have All the Elephants Gone?
An undercover investigation follows the ivory trail out of Africa, tracking how poached tusks move from savanna killing grounds to markets overseas. Reporters pose as buyers to get close to traffickers, filming transactions and interviews that expose how ivory is smuggled past customs checkpoints and laundered into the legal antiques trade. Rangers and conservationists describe the scale of the slaughter, with carcasses left tuskless across reserves, and explain how demand in Asia keeps prices high enough to make poaching worth the risk even where anti-poaching patrols operate. The film traces the economics underneath the killing: rural poachers earning a fraction of what a single tusk fetches once it reaches a dealer, and the militias and criminal networks that take the rest. Officials and campaigners weigh in on why bans and seizures have failed to slow the trade. The report ends without a clean resolution, only the numbers: elephant populations falling faster than enforcement can keep pace with.