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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...
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...
In the late 1960s Robert Hart had a vision of planting a small edible forest which could fulfil the needs of a healthy diet in beautiful, ecologically-sound surroundings. He based his ideas on tropical...
Looks at the biodiversity, structure and function of a tropical forest and advances three current ideas to explain how so many species of plants and animals can co-exist in such remarkable profusion. Filmed...
Examines the changes that the Amazon rainforest is undergoing. Oil companies and settlers are upsetting the delicate balance in the forest, home to indigenous people for ten thousands years. The Huaorani...
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.
The residue left after harvested trees are converted to timber and wood for other purposes such as fibre board and papeer pulp, represents one-third of the total mass of trees. It could be a valuable...
Deforestation in the tropics has economic and social causes which differ from country to country. In most places there is a real or perceived conflict between economic development and rainforest...
Alan Goodall observes three different families of mountain gorillas in their tropical rainforest environment of the Virunga volcanoes region of Rwanda.
Shows the effects of mining in the rain forest. Davi Yanomami makes the first-ever visit by a Yanomami spokesperson to Europe, to appeal for acknowledgement of Yonomami land rights. He also collects the...
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