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The Kayapo belong to a group of ancient tribal societies that have inhabited their present area of central Brazil for over 2000 years. The film covers the progression of a person’s life from child to...
Examines the ways young street traders, or ‘street kids’, in Recife, north-east Brazil, do their sums. Often these children have had very little schooling and art not proficient in traditional...
This film contains four case studies, each looking at a certain aspect of forests. Part 1 looks at Brazil’s tropical rainforests; Part 2 looks at ways in which farmers are combating desertification in...
Discusses the potential of biomass as a renewable energy source. Describes the importance of fuel-efficient wood stoves in Kenya to complement the development of agro-forestry as a sustainable source of...
The search for the Kreen-Akrore tribe, in the Amazon jungles of Brazil, led by Orlando and Claudio Villas Boas, famed for their pioneering expeditions into uncharted areas of the Amazon basin where, for over...
Entrepreneur and business dragon Theo Paphitis follows nine brave and bold British businesses hoping to make it big abroad. He explores emerging markets in Vietnam, India and Brazil with household names and...
A drama in which a group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland.In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the farming classes lead a wealthy and leisurely existence....
Using scanning electron microscopy, examines Cretaceous fossil fish whose internal structure, e.g. gill lamellae, musculature, etc. had been preserved by bacteria-induced phosphatisation in the tissue within...
The story of Brazil’s greatest living explorers, Claudio and Orlando Villas Boas, now both in their 70s, who retrace their 1943 expedition into a then unexplored region of the southern Amazon. Their...
Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism, with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it, it...
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