MIPTV Picks ’09 – Extinction Sucks

Activism can be fun. Just ask Aleisha Caruso and Ashleigh Young, two young conservationists from Australia. While they see the plight of endangered species as a problem of the utmost urgency, their methods of bringing attention to it are, shall we say, a tad unorthodox. Whether it means calling attention to the cause by prancing around in a gorilla suit on a freeway, or raising funds to release an Andean bear cub back into the wilds of South America, the Extinction Sucks team is out to motivate youth to take action to preserve species on the edge of extinction.