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Digital Field Trip to the Rainforest, The (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

CD-ROM

An interactive CD-ROM that uses virtual reality technology to visit a reserve in Belize to explore the ecology and importance of rain forests and encourage an awareness of the importance of rain forest...

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Malaya: Forest from the Dawn of Time (1983 Film)

Director

Tony Beamish

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Part 1 shows the kind of plants and animals to be found in the major habitats of tropical rainforests, including rivers, the forest margin, the litter layer and the canopy. Gives a picture of the diversity...

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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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Hubbard Brook: The Chemistry of a Forest (1996 Video)

aka: Temperate Forest Chemistry

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Features the long-term ecosystem study of a northern hardwood forest - the Hubbard Brook experimental forest in north-eastern USA. Research has shown the importance of monitoring the entire ecosystem when...

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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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Decade of Destruction: Mechanics of the Forest (1986 Video)

Director

Adrian Cowell

Producer

Roger James

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

A tenth of the world’s species live in Amazonia, feeding off each other, pollinating each other, dependent in a web of life. A botanist and a zoologist explain and show the delicate balance between plant...

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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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Food from the Rain Forest (1986 Video)

Producer

Tony Jolly

Subject

Agriculture; Environmental science

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Deforested areas in the wet tropics have been farmed in a variety of ways with different ecological and economic consequences. The programme was filmed in south-east Mexico in an area that until recently was...

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Discovery Channel: Spirits of the Rainforest (1993 Video)

Director

Ginger Kathrens

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 2000 sale: £10.99 (inclusive) ILC

Visits the Manu Biosphere Reserve in the Amazon region, the world’s largest rain-forest preserve. The pristine environment contains more species of animals than any other on earth.

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Once Upon a Forest (2013)

Director

Luc Jacquet

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £19.99

This film directed by Luc Jacquet concerns an expedition made with pioneering botanist and ecologist Francis Hallé into an ecologically significant rainforest in an untouched region of French Guiana...

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