Escape from Extinction review - eco plea bordering on pro-zoo propaganda

Helen Mirren narrates this documentary which seeks to correct some misconceptions about zoos but ends up feeling hard to trust This is a disingenuous documentary that has a noble cause: it's nominally about the sixth mass extinction threatening Earth's biodiversity. It shoots itself in the foot, though, by doubling up as a polemic in favour of zoos, and their part in directing species conservation. (It is produced by animal welfare charity American Humane.) Many of the points it makes, sagely na...