Jurassic World Dominion's dinosaur trafficking isn't far from reality

The movie franchise’s conclusion features black market dinosaur trading. Although it is fictional, this storyline rings alarmingly true for birds, the direct descendants of dinosaurs, warns Raj Tawney

By Raj Tawney

“IT’S not about us,” Alan Grant (played by Sam Neill) says to his fellow crusaders in one of the culminating scenes of Jurassic World Dominion, as they escape a research centre in ruins, terrorised by a Giganotosaurus that is about to have a showdown with a Therizinosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus rex. Fitting words for the final chapter in a movie franchise that, for three decades, has tried its best to send an environmentally conscious message through a Hollywood blockbuster lens.

In the series’ finale, director and co-screenwriter Colin Trevorrow filters the corruption of big pharma and biotech conglomerates through one evil overlord, who goes to …