There have been perhaps five major extinction events in history; we’re now facing a possible sixth, in which we could lose potentially half of the world’s species. Academy Award-winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove, 2009) turns his laser focus to this desperate issue, joining activists, scientists, nature photographers and inventors to alert the world through breathtaking images and covert investigations. Using stealth and bravado, Psihoyos takes hidden cameras into the illegal underground trade in endangered aquatic species and shines light on horrifying practices, meanwhile broadly demonstrating the extent of devastation wrought by methane and carbon on the ocean. Racing Extinction will fire you into action; it has to, or the ocean is lost.
Discovery premieres Academy Award-Winner Louie Psihoyus’s Racing Extinction in more than 220 countries and territories around the world. #StartWith1Thing and find out where Racing Extinction is playing near you.
