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Greed of Feed: what's feeding our cheap farmed salmon?

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:20:57 GMT

A major investigation by the Ecologist reveals a host of unreported environmental and social costs linked to the fishmeal production industry in Peru. To read the article that goes with this video go to: http://bit.ly/5PBUJQ at http://www.theecologist.org/

7 billion Others - Electricity

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:46:40 GMT

1,4 billion people in the world do not have any access to electricity, ie one out of five people. Electricity is though essential for development. Without it, cooking, studying, working can be very difficult. To continue the "7 billion Others" project, new films about the development problems was realized in 16 countries , including one about electricity.

Black rhinos moved to new home by helicopter

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:30:08 GMT

A group of 19 critically endangered black rhinos have been moved from South Africa's Eastern Cape to a new range in the Limpopo province to encourage increased breeding and population growth. The location is the seventh new habitat established by the WWF's Black Rhino Range Expansion Project.

The Story of Broke

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:27:16 GMT

The United States isn't broke; we're the richest country on the planet and a country in which the richest among us are doing exceptionally well. But the truth is, our economy is broken, producing more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any other country. In these and so many other ways, it just isn't working. But rather than invest in something better, we continue to keep this 'dinosaur economy' on life support with hundreds of billions of dollars of our tax money. The Story of Broke calls for a shift in government spending toward investments in clean, green solutions—renewable energy, safer chemicals and materials, zero waste and more—that can deliver jobs AND a healthier environment. It's time to rebuild the American Dream; but this time, let's build it better.

Eggmachine

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:44:48 GMT

Chickens were demonstrating for their right to a fair life.

Solar power factory in Kenya

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:12:29 GMT

A video about solar panel production in Kenya.

"I will be a hummingbird" - Wangari Maathai

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:07:29 GMT

n this beautifully animated clip from Dirt! The Movie, Wangari Maathai tells an inspiring tale of doing the best you can under seemingly interminable odds. Join us at www.DirtTheMovie.org

Share the Road Focus on Africa

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:59:54 GMT

This is the latest promotional video for the Share the Road initiative, focusing on Africa. The film features interviews with key participants at the Share the Road Launch Event in November 2010, including representatives of civil society organisations from Kenya and Uganda, and major donor agencies. The film was made by Richard Stanley Productions with the financial support of the FIA Foundation.

Japan's Shark Fin Capital, Kesen-numa City

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:38:52 GMT

KESEN-NUMA CITY, JAPAN - It's 5am on the the north eastern tip of Japan's main island of Honshu, and 75 tons of dead shark is being meticulously arranged into a neat grid of tidy piles, of twenty sharks per pile.
If you thought shark finning was exclusively a Chinese problem, think again. Welcome to Kesen-numa City, Japan's shark fin capital.
Here, six days a week, small teams of Japanese workers go about the hushed business of industrial shark-finning.
By 6.30am, with piles arranged, the sharks are disemboweled first. Hearts are ripped efficiently from bodies by men wearing brightly coloured rubber boots and aprons. At 7am, shark corpses are cleaned of their blood by workers wielding water hoses. And by 8am, small teams are silently moving up and down aisles and rows like robots in a Japanese car factory, quickly slicing off every dorsal, pectoral and tail fin from the lifeless, grey lumps. Big hungry black crows squawk in the shadows, looking for bloody morsels. And shark fins plop with regularity into small yellow plastic baskets. The baskets fill up fast, are then weighed, and finally carried to a nearby truck, where a man with a notepad strikes a deal. At 9.30am, it's all over for another day. Fork lift trucks scoop up tons of limbless carcasses, then dump them into a high-sided truck. The process is a brutal sight to behold, and not for the faint-hearted.
The fishing port of Kesen-numa City is located in Miyagi Prefecture in North East Japan, and is the country's only port dedicated to catching sharks.
Over two days in early July this year, I saw 119 tons of blue shark (Prionace glaucaof), ten tons of salmon shark (Lamna ditropis), and three tons of short fin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) landed on the dock at Kesen-numa. Not to mention several tons of endangered bluefin tuna, (Thunnus thynnus), but that's a whole other story. Taking government transparency to another level, landed shark tonnage numbers are provided daily by the port of Kesen-numa's Japanese only website, which is publicly, (and apparently unashamedly), available.
Could a new battle between marine conservationists battling to save the sharks and the Japanese fishing lobby be on the horizon? First there was the annual showdown in the Southern Ocean between the Japanese whaling fleet and the environmental groups Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd to save the whale. Then there was the runaway success of the Oscar-winning documentary 'The Cove' which exposed the brutal Japanese trade in captive dolphins. One would think the tide is slowly turning.
Isn't it time Kesen-numa City, Japan's dirty little shark secret, was shut down too?

Desertification - What the leaders think

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:07:52 GMT

Desertification means hunger and poverty. It could affect more than a billion of people. Interviews of Ahmed Djoghlaf of UNCBD, Luc Gnacadja of UNCCD, Lorena Aguilar, of IUCN, Marcela Tovar-Restrepo, WEDO, Veerle Vandeweerd of UNDP, Jan McAlpine, of UNFF, Patrice Burger of CARI, Rodney Cooke of IFAD

Robodeer

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:51:52 GMT

Illegal deer hunting is a real problem in the state parks of Florida. The Fish and Wildlife team has an elite member of the team to deal with this situation, a robotic deer decoy they affectionately name... Robodeer!

Closing a Deadly Gateway

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:14:27 GMT

This video is based on a TRAFFIC/WWF report called 'The Big Cat Trade in Myanmar and Thailand', which found that black markets along Myanmar, Thailand and China's shared borders play a crucial role facilitating the deadly illicit trade in tigers and other endangered species. Such trade is driving tigers to extinction.
The documentary illustrates the illegal trade described in the report. The film shows interviews with poachers and alarming footage of butchered tigers.

Food speculation fuels Mexico's tortilla crisis

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:31:41 GMT

A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. The Ecologist Film Unit meets coffee farmers already struggling with volatile prices for their crops - and now feeling the affects of the rising cost of corn.

Crimanimalz - Freeway Ride III

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:29:48 GMT

Westside bike ride on the freeway of Los Angeles

Aga Khan Planning and Building Service

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:07:55 GMT

Over 14 years ago, the Aga Khan Planning and Building Service began a concerted drive to make homes in North Pakistan warmer, and reduce the use of wood. Based on the Aga Khan's belief that 'A proper home can bridge that terrible gap between poverty and a better future', the programme is doing just that for over 240,000 people.

The Real Avatar 2: Strength In Numbers

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:41:51 GMT

In 2009 Survival released the film "Mine - Story of a Sacred Mountain", otherwise known as "The Real Avatar". Watch "Strength in Numbers" to find out what happened next...

Save our seas: fix the Common Fisheries Policy

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:53:19 GMT

Our seas are in peril: more than 70% of Europe's fish stocks are overfished. Species are rapidly nearing extinction. Yet the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) allows European fleets to take 2 to 3 times more from our threatened oceans than what is considered sustainable.
But, it doesn't have to be this way. Call for a strong reform of the CFP now, to ensure we have fish to eat in the future - and a fishing industry left to catch them.

ohoku Tsunami Creates Antarctic Icebergs

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:32:19 GMT

Nearly 50 square miles of ice broke off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf on the coast of Antarctica, resulting from waves generated by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.

UNEP eco-tourism series Malewa Wildlife Lodge in Kenya

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:10:02 GMT

Sustainable tourism in Kenya

Josette Sheeran: Ending hunger now

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:22:24 GMT

Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN's World Food Program, talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go hungry, still die of starvation, still use food as a weapon of war. Her vision: "Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together."