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  1. Decade of Destruction: Storms of the Amazon (1986 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Roger James
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Argues that deforestation will change the climate of the Amazonia and its surrounding regions. Trees push moisture into the atmosphere, thus generating rainfall, which can be used by all plants. Cutting the...

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  2. Heritage of the Forest (1983 Film, Video)

    Director
    Robert Crane
    Producer
    John Tomkins
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Gives a brief account of the vast forests which once covered Britain, describing the various types of woodland that evolved and how man has managed them over the centuries. Shows the wealth of flora and...

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  3. Gene Hunters (1994 Video)

    Director
    Ian Taylor
    Producer
    Luke Holland
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Scientists are collecting blood samples from the Ahuaco and Asario Indians who live in the remote rain forests of northeern Columbia in order to provide DNA for the Human Genome Biodiversity Project. The aim...

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  4. Global Gardener (1996)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 120 minutes), £21.95

    For nearly two decades Bill Mollison has travelled the globe spreading the word about permaculture (permanent agriculture), the method of sustainable agriculture that he devised. Permaculture weaves together...

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  5. Cain and Abel (Ants) (1975 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willcock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In the high forests of northern Trinidad, a rich and varied habitat, two kinds of ant have adopted contrasting ways of making a living. The driver ants are wandering hunters which scour the forest floor for...

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  6. Last of the Hiding Tribes, The (1998 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Adrian Cowell
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 60 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) each part

    Adrian Cowell traces the history of three tribes of the Amazon rainforest that are on the edge of extinction: the Panara, the Uru Eu Wau Wau, and the Ava-Canoeiro. The films focus on the dramas of...

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  7. Struggle for Sustainable Tourism, The: An Ecuadorian Case Study (2005)

    Subject
    Business studies; Development studies; FE; Travel & tourism
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £125.00

    Study of a new project in ecotourism. The people of Santa Lucia, a farming community on the slopes of the Andes, were foreced to abandon their traditional way of life because of laws brought in to protect...

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  8. This is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

    Subject
    Economics; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 46 minutes), $250.00

    For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as "the commons" -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most...

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  9. Papua Medeka! - Free Papua (2003)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, VHS (40 minutes), cost price

    Documents the destruction of the land and people in the Indonesian colony of West Papua / Irian Jaya, and their independence struggle . The native people of West Papua are being obliterated by a repressive...

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  10. Planet Earth (2006)

    Director
    Alastair Fothergill
    Subject
    Biology; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 650 minutes), £39.99

    All 11 parts of David Attenborough’s television series exploring the evolution of the Earth and the life which it supports. DVD extras include Planet Earth Diaries - Making Of; Planet Earth: THe Future -...

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