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  1. Tropical Rain Forest (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Shows some important ecological features of a tropical evergreen rain forest in Mexico. Filmed at Los Tuxtlas, Southern Veracruz, Mexico, at the forest reserve of the University of Mexico Institute of...

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  2. The Tribe that Hid from Man

    Date
    25 Jun 2014, 08:06
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    Adrian Cowell’s award-winning 1970 documentary The Tribe That Hides From Man about the Kreen-Akrore Indians is now available on DVD. Dr Elizabeth Ewart of the University of Oxford has gone to Brazil to...

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  3. Decade of Destruction (1986 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Roger James
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 52 min., 1993 sale: £40.00 (+ VAT +p&p)

    An account of the destruction of the Amazonian rain forest in Brazil. The destruction of the world’s tropical forests is the greatest single threat to the stability of environmental systems on our planet....

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  4. Life in a Tropical Forest (1971 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows aspects of life in a tropical rain forest on Barro Colorado in Panama which is used as a base for scientific investigation under the Smithsonian Institute. Illustrates the diversity of animals and...

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  5. Banking on Disaster (1987 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1998 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Documents the destruction of parts of the South American rainforest as the land is opened up by new roads and the forest is cleared to make way for coffee plantations and cattle ranches. As the settlers move...

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  6. Voice for the Wilderness, A (1984 Video)

    Director
    Michael Blason; Chris Wilcox
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min.

    An emotive plea for the preservation of Australian forests, and particularly of the rain forests of the Hastings River area. Portrays the destruction of huge areas of forest in the past 200 years since the...

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  7. Selva Verde: Central American Rain Forest (198 Video)

    Producer
    Phil Agland; Michael Rosenberg
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    The natural history and ecology of a tropical rainforest. Sequences include a jaguar hunting, bot fly larvae developing within a newly hatched chick, and cow birds laying their eggs in the nest of other...

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  8. Hunting Ground, The (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

    Explores the controversial methods of the New Tribes Mission in Paraguay. Ayoreo Indians say they have been forced to leave the forest and convert to Christianity. In an encounter between missionised and...

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  9. Mindful Way, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Montagnon; N O’Faolain
    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRUBTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Filmed in a Buddhist forest monastery in north-east Thailand. The Abbot, Achaan Cha, is one of the most revered meditation teachers in the ‘Theravada’ tradition. He bases the life style of the monastery...

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  10. Assault on the Sepik (1974 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 19 min.

    All species of pine trees are susceptible to attack by the wood wasp, ‘Sirex noctillio’. When Sirex was first discovered on the Australian mainland in 1961, the softwood plantations of Southern Australia...

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