Banking Nature

Banking Nature is a documentary by Denis Delestrac and Sandrine Feydel that looks at the growing movement to monetize the natural world and to turn endangered species and threatened areas into instruments of profit.^[1]

Sandrine Feydel and Denis Delestrac report on how investors buy up the habitats of endangered species and then sell them in the form of shares. The film includes a montage of images of nature, reflective voice-overs and interviews with bankers, economists, activists and policymakers. The economist Pavan Sukhdev is interviewed, saying nature can best be protected by sticking a price tag on it. Pablo Solon is interviewed saying this subjecting of nature to free market forces as a "license to kill" it. Vandana Shiva, an Indian philosopher, scientist and environmentalist is also interviewed.

• Banking Nature at IMDb