Short Documentaries

Planet e Documentary. Another documentary initiated by Karl Ammann, about the illegal export of 150 chimpanzees and 10 gorillas from West and Central Africa to zoos and safari parks in China.  Despite concrete evidence of CITES permit falsification, no enforcement action is taken.  Follow-up investigations reveals that the CITES permit scam is widespread, involves numerous parties and regions, and is ongoing.

Elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade took center stage at the CITES COP in Bangkok. Filmed across Central Africa and Southeast Asia, this powerful footage exposes the deadly global supply chain behind ivory—from poachers to international markets—featuring rare undercover recordings of buyers acquiring ivory items. A hard‑hitting look at the demand driving one of the world’s most devastating wildlife crimes.

Behind the Horn - A shocking look at how far poachers will go - and what's being lost.

Carte Blanche documentary. An explosive investigative documentary exposes how international smuggling syndicates exploit legal loopholes to traffic rhino horn. In 2010 alone, 333 rhinos were killed—nearly one every day—and conservationists feared the toll would double the following year. The film uncovers a disturbing network linking Thai smugglers and South African game farms, where so‑called “legal” hunts mask an illegal trade. The alleged hunters? Glamorous Thai escorts signed off to shoot 3‑ton animals they could barely handle.

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A Bear Bile Farm in Boten, Laos. 

A rare, hard-hitting exposé on the illegal trade in endangered primates—caught to order in Congo and shipped to American zoos. Conservationist Karl Amman tracks one major consignment from capture to export, described as “the biggest shipment of primates that has ever come out of the Congo.” Of 100 monkeys exported, 34 went to the U.S. Zoos called it a rescue from the bushmeat trade—but the paperwork suggests illegal capture and export.

Winner of the Jury Special Award at the Jules Verne Film Festival.

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Journey deep into the Congo’s Lomako Forest as primatologist Jef Dupain returns to a place he was once forced to flee. Alongside conservation firebrand Karl Ammann and bioethicist Kerry Bowman, he races to protect the elusive, endangered bonobo—while civil war tears the country apart. A gripping, high-stakes documentary about conservation on the edge of collapse—where saving a species collides with a nation fighting for survival.

BBC Earth Report—initiated by Karl Ammann—examines elephant poaching and the wider bushmeat trade in parts of Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film also exposes the corruption and attempted cover-ups that enable the trade, including the jailing of a local investigator.

BBC Earth Report. Follows the trail of illegal bushmeat poaching in Congo and Cameroon—enabled by timber roads and rivers—and reveals how industrial logging is reshaping life for Central Africa’s Baka people. Featuring Joseph Melloh, a former poacher now working with Karl Ammann to investigate the trade and share community-led alternatives.

Exposes the role of a German logging company in the bushmeat trade and the hunting of bonobos. Despite claims that their K7 concession had no bushmeat problem, the film’s investigation—undertaken via an unofficial entry—reveals a very different reality.

A journey into remote Congolese remote forests uncovers unique chimpanzee cultures—and a growing conservation crisis. What began as a search for the mysterious Bili apes becomes a powerful story about wildlife protection and working with local communities to safeguard fragile ecosystems.