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A decade of science and conservation journalism took its cues from the institutions whose strategies the film would later show to be failing.
A contested “market for lemons” battle over synthetic rhino horn, where techno‑optimists, NGOs, economists, and cultural researchers clash over whether lab‑grown horn will save or doom rhinos.
The frame described one market. The record described another.
In the first weeks of Pembient's public existence, before the conservation establishment mobilized, a brief window of coverage took the proposal seriously on its own terms.