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The Prince's Rainforests Project Videos

Please feel free to use these videos in your lessons or assemblies.   

> Rainforest SOS Campaign Highlights

    

The below videos are from YouTube but they can also be viewed at http://www.eco-tube.com if you cannot see them.

>  The Prince's Rainforests Project launches it's global awareness campaign with a video featuring some well-known faces.
>  HRH The Prince of Wales introduces his Rainforests Project and the associated website.
Vanishing Species - A short film about threatened species and rainforests
>  Ghost Trees - A short animated film about deforestation and climate change
>  Generations - A film about how quickly deforestation is taking place
Hymn to the Rainforest - Sarah Brightman sings Nella Fantasia
Climate Change In Any Language - A short animated film about how deforestation affects us all

The Prince's Rainforests Project launches it's global awareness campaign with a video featuring some well-known faces.

HRH The Prince of Wales introduces his Rainforests Project and the associated website.

Eco-Tube -
http://www.eco-tube.com/v/TALK/HRH_The_Prince_of_Wales_introduces_his_Project.aspx

Vanishing Species - A short film about threatened species and rainforests

Eco-Tube - http://www.eco-tube.com/v/GAIA/Vanishing_Species.aspx

Ghost Trees - A short animated film about deforestation and climate change

Eco-Tube - http://www.eco-tube.com/v/GAIA/Ghost_Trees.aspx



Generations - A film about how quickly deforestation is taking place

Hymn to the Rainforest - A film about the rainforests and their biodiversity, their people and their plight with Sarah Brightman singing Nella Fantasia.

Climate Change In Any Language - A short animated film about how the continued deforestation of the rainforests affects us all, no matter where in the world we live.

Eco-Tube - http://www.eco-tube.com/v/GAIA/Climate_Change_in_Any_Language.aspx 


 

Webcams

> World Land Trust BirdCam - see the live streaming video from a rainforest reserve in Ecuador, South America. 
Click here to watch on the CheckAnimalsLive website. 

> Isle of Wight Zoo Tigers - see the live streaming video from the Tiger enclosure at Isle of Wight zoo. 
Click here to watch on the CheckAnimalsLive website. 

> Noahs's Ark Zoo Farm Tapirs - see the live streaming video of Toby and Tara the Brazilian Tapirs. Tara is due to give birth very soon! 
Click here to watch on the CheckAnimalsLive website. 

> Rancho Ornithos - watch a live streaming webcam featuring the incredible birds of the Brazilian rainforest. 
Click here to watch the webcam on the Ornithos website. 


BBC Videos

> Rainforest Animals of the Amazon Jungle
Watch the film on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVwBvA5LQEI

> Rainforest Animals and Plantlife of the Amazon Jungle
Watch the film on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xN7bPTz7gw

> Poisonous Tropical Rainforest Animals in the Amazon
Watch the film on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOBdkLDNl8g 


Other

> WWF: The Madeira River: Life Before the Dams. A Q&A document for this video is available here.

   

 

> Borneo Orangutan Survival - [watch the film on www.savetheorangutan.co.uk]
This film clip was first featured on the BBC2 series Orangutan Diary, a moving documentary series about the work of Lone Droscher Nielsen and her team at the Nyaru Menteng orangutan sanctuary in Borneo. When Mama Abut and her baby were brought to the sanctuary, they were in a pretty bad state. However, thanks to work of the BOS, they are now due to be released back into the wild - a triumph for Lone and the team.

> Interview with Tony Juniper - [watch the film on www.21stCenturyChallenges.co.uk]
Tony Juniper is a campaigner, writer, adviser and commentator and one of the UK's best known environmentalists. He is currently working as a special adviser to The Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project and recently recorded an interview with 21st Century Challenges about the problems affecting the rainforests.  The 21st Century Challenges series, as part of the Royal Geographical Society, helps people make their own informed decisions and judgements on the most important challenges of the 21st century.  This video is suitable for children aged 14+. 

> Willie Smits: How To Restore A Rainforest - [watch the film on www.ted.com]
Willie Smits has devoted his life to saving the forest habitat of orangutans, the "thinkers of the jungle." As towns, farms and wars encroach on native forests, Smits works to save what is left.  By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

> The Story of Stuff - [watch the film on www.storyofstuff.com]
A 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

> Planet Blue Savers - [watch the introductory film]
Planet Blue is a fun, safe and educational place for children to play all while learning what you can do to help Save Planet Blue. As a Planet Blue Saver children can play games, interact with other Savers and learn what they can do to help. By joining, they can create their own Planet Blue Saver and explore the world of Planet Blue.

> Saving the World's Rainforests - Seven Questions with Tony Juniper
[view the answer to Question 1 on YouTube] - [view the answer to Question 2 on YouTube] - [view the answer to Question 3 on YouTube] - [view the answer to Question 4 on YouTube] - [view the answer to Question 5 on YouTube] - [view the answer to Question 6 on YouTube] - [view the answer to Question 7 on YouTube]