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					<title>What Indigenous youth filmmaking reveals about environmental communication (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/what-indigenous-youth-filmmaking-reveals-about-environmental-communication-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 May 2026 16:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jamille Pinheiro Dias]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arts, Commentary, Communication, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Film, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforests, and Traditional Knowledge]]>
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							<![CDATA[A machete is typically an instrument for clearing dense brush or, in a certain kind of movie, for fending off a terrifying monster. Yet, deep in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil’s Bahia state, I learned that a machete is also used for a much friendlier purpose: slicing green mangoes to eat with salt. That simple, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A machete is typically an instrument for clearing dense brush or, in a certain kind of movie, for fending off a terrifying monster. Yet, deep in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil’s Bahia state, I learned that a machete is also used for a much friendlier purpose: slicing green mangoes to eat with salt. That simple, unexpected twist — where anticipated horror dissolves into communal joy — captures exactly what happened when we asked the students in the Indigenous Tupinambá villages of Serra do Padeiro and Tukum what kind of movies they liked. The room immediately buzzed with a rapid-fire list: K-dramas, slapstick comedies, high-speed action, or blood-chilling horror. Before anyone had even picked up a camera, the space was already overflowing with a multiplicity of cinematic worlds and different ideas about what a story could be. I had traveled to southern Bahia in March 2026 with Indigenous filmmaker Olinda Tupinambá and a group of creatives. As a researcher at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, I am co-developing our project titled “Environmental Education and Film in the Atlantic Forest: Eco-Activism Through Indigenous Perspectives” with support from the British Academy. Our goal was simple: to demystify filmmaking by using everyday smartphones as creative tools, and to challenge what audiences often assume about Indigenous cinema. Students, project leads, and facilitators during the workshop in the Serra do Padeiro village, Tupinambá de Olivença Territory (Bahia, Brazil), part of the British Academy–funded Environmental Education and Film in the Atlantic Forest: Eco-Activism Through&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/what-indigenous-youth-filmmaking-reveals-about-environmental-communication-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-318951</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Marine biologist Edie Widder chases bioluminescence in new ‘Life Illuminated’ film</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/marine-biologist-edie-widder-chases-bioluminescence-in-new-life-illuminated-film/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/marine-biologist-edie-widder-chases-bioluminescence-in-new-life-illuminated-film/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>12 Mar 2026 14:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beyond the screen: DCEFF]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Bioluminescence, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Film, Fish, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Research, Saltwater Fish, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The documentary A Life Illuminated will make its Washington, D.C., premiere on March 19, the first night of the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, where Mongabay is a media partner. The film traces the career arc of U.S. marine biologist Edie Widder, an expert on bioluminescence who’s made headlines for decades, and documents her team’s attempt [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The documentary A Life Illuminated will make its Washington, D.C., premiere on March 19, the first night of the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, where Mongabay is a media partner. The film traces the career arc of U.S. marine biologist Edie Widder, an expert on bioluminescence who’s made headlines for decades, and documents her team’s attempt to capture a remarkable deep-water phenomenon called “flashback” on camera. The film, directed by U.S. documentary filmmaker Tasha Van Zandt, has been on the film festival circuit since September, when it made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the film, Widder meditates on the importance of the deep sea, which usually refers to waters below 200 meters (660 feet) in depth, a zone many experts call the world’s largest habitat. In the deep sea, most creatures can emit light, a trait few land-dwelling animals possess. (Fireflies are a notable exception.) The film’s plot toggles between previous Widder expeditions and a recent one to the waters off the Azores, a Portuguese-administered archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, to document flashback. The term refers to the way a wide variety of organisms, from the macro to the micro, will simultaneously light up in response to a flash of light from, say, a submersible. Those who’ve witnessed the phenomenon speak about it with awe: Before the flashback, the sea is pitch-black to the human eye, a seeming void. The flashback then envelops the submersible in an ephemeral snowstorm. Edie Widder, a marine biologist and bioluminescence&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/marine-biologist-edie-widder-chases-bioluminescence-in-new-life-illuminated-film/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-315615</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘We can have abundant rivers and wildlife’: Director of ‘The American Southwest’ on new film</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/we-can-have-abundant-rivers-and-wildlife-director-of-the-american-southwest-on-new-film/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Oct 2025 13:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mexico and Southwest United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Drinking Water, Environment, Film, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, History, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Industrial Agriculture, Interviews, Land Rights, Rivers, Water, Water Scarcity, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[At its roots, The American Southwest, from Fin and Fur Films, is a natural history documentary. &#8220;I&#8217;m a wildlife guy,&#8221; says director Ben Masters, who founded Fin and Fur in 2012. His infatuation with nature comes through in the film&#8217;s exploration of the southwestern United States, traced along the path of the Colorado River from [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[At its roots, The American Southwest, from Fin and Fur Films, is a natural history documentary. &#8220;I&#8217;m a wildlife guy,&#8221; says director Ben Masters, who founded Fin and Fur in 2012. His infatuation with nature comes through in the film&#8217;s exploration of the southwestern United States, traced along the path of the Colorado River from its headwaters in the Never Summer range of the Rocky Mountains to its delta in the Gulf of California. Along the way, we find a watershed teeming with life. In three years of filming, his team captured visually astounding sequences of bull elk (Cervus canadensis) clashing in battle, of beavers (Castor canadensis) toppling trees to tailor their habitat to their needs, and of a nail-biting struggle of a young California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) on a cliff at Navajo Bridge. The filmmakers manage to engage the audience in the stories of each species they spend time with, whether the deadly Mojave rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus) in California&#8217;s largest desert, Arizona&#8217;s life-supporting saguaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea), or the humble salmonfly (Pteronarcys spp.) linking the aquatic environment with the terrestrial. Beavers build dams on snowmelt streams in the Colorado River Basin. Image courtesy of Fin and Fur Films. This biological vibrancy is a stark contrast to the images the filmmakers have also included of a river that&#8217;s worn down by the time it reaches its terminus. As the Colorado flows through Arizona, California and Nevada — three of the seven states it touches, in addition to Mexico — cities,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/we-can-have-abundant-rivers-and-wildlife-director-of-the-american-southwest-on-new-film/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-307592</doi>				</item>
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					<title>To save pangolins, we need to change the narrative (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/to-save-pangolins-we-need-to-change-the-narrative-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jul 2025 14:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Araluen Schunmann]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Commentary, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Film, Illegal Trade, Mammals, Pangolins, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite being the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal — more than elephants, rhinos and tigers combined — pangolins remain virtually unknown to the public. These shy, scaly creatures are primarily hunted for their scales, which are frequently used in traditional Asian medicines. Despite international protections, illegal trafficking of these animals continues, and with it, the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite being the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal — more than elephants, rhinos and tigers combined — pangolins remain virtually unknown to the public. These shy, scaly creatures are primarily hunted for their scales, which are frequently used in traditional Asian medicines. Despite international protections, illegal trafficking of these animals continues, and with it, the quiet collapse of wild pangolin populations across Asia and Africa. Part of conservationists’ challenge is increasing the visibility of the threats these species face. Pangolins don’t have the public profile of elephants or lions and aren’t instantly recognizable to the general public. They’re not often visible to safari tourists, rarely show up in children’s books or blockbuster nature documentaries, and, until recently, they rarely made headlines. In a media environment that often elevates the largest or most brightly colored animals, pangolins have been left out of the conservation spotlight. But that’s starting to change, and one reason for that is storytelling. The new Netflix documentary Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey is a powerful example of what can happen when the media shines a light on a lesser-known species. Promotional images of the new Netflix documentary Pangolin: Kulu&#8217;s Journey. Through the lens of a rescued pangolin and the conservationists working to protect him, the film gives audiences a window into a crisis that has long flown under the radar, and highlights the intelligence of these often-forgotten creatures. Perhaps more importantly, it shows that these animals are worth knowing, worth protecting, and still have a chance to thrive in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/to-save-pangolins-we-need-to-change-the-narrative-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-303221</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Award-winning film highlights lasting damage from X-Press Pearl disaster in Sri Lanka</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/award-winning-film-highlights-lasting-damage-from-x-press-pearl-disaster-in-sri-lanka/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Apr 2025 14:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malaka Rodrigo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Dilrukshi Handunnetti]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, South Asia, and Sri Lanka]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Coastal Ecosystems, Disasters, Ecosystems, Environment, Film, Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Marine, Marine Conservation, Microplastics, Oceans, Plastic, and Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[COLOMBO — Beneath Sri Lanka’s serene waters, a pearl oyster cherished her pearl, living in harmony. But disaster struck when a blazing ship sank, poisoning the sea. Entangled in debris, she lost her treasured pearl. Desperate, she started to search despite the waves and found glistening orbs. Believing she had recovered her lost pearl, she [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[COLOMBO — Beneath Sri Lanka’s serene waters, a pearl oyster cherished her pearl, living in harmony. But disaster struck when a blazing ship sank, poisoning the sea. Entangled in debris, she lost her treasured pearl. Desperate, she started to search despite the waves and found glistening orbs. Believing she had recovered her lost pearl, she embraced the glistening objects. Yet, they were not pearls, but toxic plastic pellets, part of the ship’s deadly cargo. As the poison seeped into her, she closed her shell one last time. The ocean, once her sanctuary, became her grave. This haunting narrative unfolds in This is Not a Pearl, a short film by Sri Lankan filmmaker Tharindu Ramanayaka, which powerfully illustrates the environmental catastrophe caused by the MV X-Press Pearl disaster in artistic form. The film delves into the aftermath of the ship’s sinking off Sri Lanka’s west coast in May 2021, an event that triggered the world’s largest-ever spill of nurdles, the tiny pellets from which plastic products are made. A total of 1,680 metric tons of nurdles, from 87 containers, were unleashed into the ocean. The 15-minute experimental production “This is Not a Pearl” serves as a cinematic protest, using artistic expression to powerfully portray the environmental devastation caused by the sinking of the cargo carrier X-Press Pearl. Image courtesy of Tharindu Ramanayaka. Sri Lanka has long been known as the &#8220;Pearl of the Indian Ocean,&#8221; not just for its breathtaking landscapes and rich biodiversity, but also for its famed Gulf of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/award-winning-film-highlights-lasting-damage-from-x-press-pearl-disaster-in-sri-lanka/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-297496</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In ‘The Battle for Laikipia,’ the human face of resource conflict in Kenya</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/in-the-battle-for-laikipia-the-human-face-of-resource-conflict-in-kenya/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Mar 2025 15:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashoka Mukpo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beyond the screen: DCEFF]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Environment, Film, Global Environmental Crisis, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Resource Conflict, War, Water, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[KIMANA, Kenya — Lush, fertile and green, the Laikipia highlands of Kenya are renowned for their beauty and abundant grasses that feed its wildlife and livestock. They’re also the theater of some of the longest-running land disputes in the country. Traditionally occupied by the Maasai, along with their Maa-speaking cousins the Samburu and other pastoralists, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KIMANA, Kenya — Lush, fertile and green, the Laikipia highlands of Kenya are renowned for their beauty and abundant grasses that feed its wildlife and livestock. They’re also the theater of some of the longest-running land disputes in the country. Traditionally occupied by the Maasai, along with their Maa-speaking cousins the Samburu and other pastoralists, Laikipia county has a temperate climate and suitability for agriculture that made it highly coveted by British settlers at the turn of the 20th century. By 1911, colonial authorities had moved nearly all the Maasai to distant reserves in the country’s south, converting land that had been used for livestock forage into farms and cattle ranches. The echoes of this period still reverberate today. After independence, many settlers fled Laikipia for Europe — but the land they left behind did not revert back to the pastoralists who once grazed their herds there. Much of it was transferred to other Kenyans to be used for farming, or remained in the hands of the families that chose to remain. Today, massive ranches and wildlife conservancies cover more than half the county’s 9,532 square kilometers (3,680 square miles), the bulk of which are owned by descendants of those families or investors they sold them to. In the last decade, some of these ranches have been the locus of conflict between their owners and pastoralist communities who believe they were established on stolen land. Spurred on by a series of droughts, some Samburu “invaded” the ranches to look for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/in-the-battle-for-laikipia-the-human-face-of-resource-conflict-in-kenya/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-296331</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How one researcher walked thousands of miles along India’s shores to conserve sea turtles</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/a-curious-conservationist-who-walked-along-indias-coastlines-to-learn-about-sea-turtles/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Mar 2025 11:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Priyanka Shankar]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beyond the screen: DCEFF]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, India, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Endangered Species, Environment, Film, Herps, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Reptiles, Sea Turtles, Turtles, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Satish Bhaskar was a curious man. From a very young age he was fascinated with the sea and the diverse marine creatures, especially turtles. When he learnt that sea turtles were being exploited in India for their eggs, shells and flesh, he understood the importance of documenting and protecting nesting turtle beaches. In the late [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Satish Bhaskar was a curious man. From a very young age he was fascinated with the sea and the diverse marine creatures, especially turtles. When he learnt that sea turtles were being exploited in India for their eggs, shells and flesh, he understood the importance of documenting and protecting nesting turtle beaches. In the late 1970s, he decided to cover every single beach and island in India, by foot. Over 19 years, Bhaskar surveyed more than 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) of the country’s coastline and published several important reports, filling huge gaps of knowledge about sea turtle distribution. He even chose to maroon himself on an uninhabited island in Lakshadweep for months, equipped with only basic essentials and a transistor, to study turtles. In a documentary about his life and career, titled Turtle Walker, the late conservationist described being with turtles as some of the happiest days in his life. “I am glad I did the things I did,” he said. Produced by Emaho Films and backed by Tiger Baby, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and Ceres, the 75-minute documentary is already winning international recognition and is set to be screened at the DC Environmental Film Festival 2025 (DCEFF 2025). Mongabay is a media partner for DCEFF 2025 and has interviewed some filmmakers as part of this collaboration. In this interview with Mongabay India, Taira Malaney, the director of Turtle Walker talked about why she chose Satish Bhaskar as the subject of her documentary, the challenges of filming with turtles, the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/a-curious-conservationist-who-walked-along-indias-coastlines-to-learn-about-sea-turtles/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Microplastic within humans now a health crisis: Interview with ‘Plastic People’ filmmakers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/microplastic-within-humans-now-a-health-crisis-interview-with-plastic-people-filmmakers/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Mar 2025 12:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beyond the screen: DCEFF]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Consumption, Environment, Environmental Law, Film, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, Industry, Interviews, Media, Microplastics, Nutrient Pollution, Overconsumption, Planetary Health, Plastic, Poisoning, Pollution, Public Health, Research, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a lab in Türkiye, researcher Sedat Gündoğdu zooms in on the image of a small red fiber. For the first time on film, viewers are witnessing microplastics in the human brain. The moment is emblematic of an emerging environmental and health crisis affecting nearly every corner of life on Earth, from the deepest depths [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a lab in Türkiye, researcher Sedat Gündoğdu zooms in on the image of a small red fiber. For the first time on film, viewers are witnessing microplastics in the human brain. The moment is emblematic of an emerging environmental and health crisis affecting nearly every corner of life on Earth, from the deepest depths of the ocean to the blood in our veins. Microplastics, it seems, are everywhere. The award-winning documentary Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics follows science journalist Ziya Tong as she examines her own body for microplastic contamination and traces the latest microplastic science and solutions around the globe. The thesis: we are all becoming “plastic people.” “I was surprised at the ubiquity of microplastics in the human body,” Rick Smith, executive producer of the documentary, said in an interview with Mongabay. The film grew out of Smith’s 2020 reporting for The Globe and Mail, in which he worked with scientists to test his own body for microplastics. “The question isn’t, ‘do we have microplastics in us?’” Smith said. “The question is, ‘how much?’ And the question isn’t where in the human body microplastics exist. The question is, ‘where doesn’t it exist?’ We haven’t actually found a human organ without measurable microplastic levels yet.” The film takes viewers on a global journey, tracking researchers who are finding microplastics not only in the environment but in human bloodstreams, brains and placentas. Recent studies confirm these findings, showing that microplastics have infiltrated virtually every part of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/microplastic-within-humans-now-a-health-crisis-interview-with-plastic-people-filmmakers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How one woman’s wolf ‘moon shot’ changed Yellowstone forever: Interview with director Tom Winston</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/how-one-womans-wolf-moon-shot-changed-yellowstone-forever-interview-with-director-tom-winston/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Mar 2025 17:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beyond the screen: DCEFF]]>
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							<![CDATA[North America and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Extinction, Film, Forests, Interviews, Mammals, National Parks, Predators, Protected Areas, Reintroductions, Restoration, Top Predators, Wildlife, and Wolves]]>
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							<![CDATA[In March 1995, a few wolves cautiously exited their pens into the melting snow of Yellowstone National Park, returning there 70 years after guns, traps and poison had wiped them out. The dramatic return of these top carnivores was watched around the world, the culmination of twists and turns rivaling any Hollywood blockbuster. Now, a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In March 1995, a few wolves cautiously exited their pens into the melting snow of Yellowstone National Park, returning there 70 years after guns, traps and poison had wiped them out. The dramatic return of these top carnivores was watched around the world, the culmination of twists and turns rivaling any Hollywood blockbuster. Now, a new documentary film, Mollie’s Pack, tells the story in a new and emotional way. Mollie’s Pack pairs the story of the controversial reintroduction of the wolves with the life of Mollie Beattie, then head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Beattie was not only instrumental in bringing the Canadian wolves into Yellowstone National Park, but was also there to carry in the wolves on their arrival, specifically number five, an alpha female whose line would form the backbone of Yellowstone’s wolf population. Eighteen months after successfully bringing wolves back to Yellowstone, Beattie died from a brain tumor. She was 49 years old. These two stories — of Beattie’s life and death, and of the resurrection of wolves in one of the best-known ecosystems on the planet — form the film Mollie’s Pack. The film will be screened at the 2025 DC Environmental Film Festival, where Mongabay is a media partner. Mollie Beattie at the Yellowstone Arch in 1995. Image is a still from the film Mollie&#8217;s Pack. Mongabay’s Jeremy Hance interviewed the film’s director, Tom Winston, from the production company Grizzly Creek Films, about its serendipitous coming together and the legacy of Mollie Beattie&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/how-one-womans-wolf-moon-shot-changed-yellowstone-forever-interview-with-director-tom-winston/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘I’m Still Here’ Eunice Paiva’s pivotal role in Brazil’s Indigenous &#038; environmental rights</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/im-still-here-eunice-paivas-pivotal-role-in-brazils-indigenous-environmental-rights/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Feb 2025 18:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Luiz Antônio Araujo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arts, Environment, Environmental Law, Film, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Law, Politics, Social Justice, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[PORTO ALEGRE — On the set of I’m Still Here (2024), the acclaimed Brazilian film by Walter Salles Jr., supporting actress Angela Ribeiro was approached by a woman with red hair and thin-rimmed glasses. “I came to meet my namesake,” the visitor joked in a light Portuguese accent. The presence of Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PORTO ALEGRE — On the set of I’m Still Here (2024), the acclaimed Brazilian film by Walter Salles Jr., supporting actress Angela Ribeiro was approached by a woman with red hair and thin-rimmed glasses. “I came to meet my namesake,” the visitor joked in a light Portuguese accent. The presence of Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, a distinguished Luso-Brazilian scholar specializing in Brazil&#8217;s Indigenous peoples, behind the scenes of the production, moved the actress portraying her on the big screen, she said. In a social media post, Ribeiro shared, “I met her on set! We hugged. We looked at each other, and I was able to express my profound admiration.” Carneiro da Cunha is a secondary character in the critically acclaimed film I’m Still Here, which is nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best International Picture and Best Actress. The movie focuses on the personal and political story of its protagonist, lawyer Eunice Paiva (1929–2018) whose husband, former Congressman Rubens Paiva, was kidnapped and killed by agents of Brazil’s military dictatorship in 1971. The relationship between Eunice Paiva (played by Fernanda Torres) and Carneiro da Cunha is briefly touched upon in the film, sources close to her tell Mongabay, but it encapsulates a crucial aspect of Paiva’s career: her influence in the Indigenous rights and environmental movement. Although I’m Still Here does not delve deeply into Indigenous issues, Indigenous leaders have seen the film’s international success as a tribute to a champion of their cause. Paiva’s advocacy for Indigenous peoples&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/im-still-here-eunice-paivas-pivotal-role-in-brazils-indigenous-environmental-rights/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Innovative Nepali PSA seeks emotional connection to save red pandas</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/innovative-nepali-psa-seeks-emotional-connection-to-save-red-pandas/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 May 2024 13:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Arts, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Film, Infrastructure, Mammals, Pandas, Poaching, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — During the COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal, red panda conservation campaigner and researcher Sonam Tashi Lama came across a public service announcement on African rhinos, featuring action superstar Jackie Chan. “I was blown away by the concept and the performance,” Lama said. It got him wondering whether a similar PSA could be produced by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — During the COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal, red panda conservation campaigner and researcher Sonam Tashi Lama came across a public service announcement on African rhinos, featuring action superstar Jackie Chan. “I was blown away by the concept and the performance,” Lama said. It got him wondering whether a similar PSA could be produced by Nepali artists, depicting Nepali culture, to save the red panda (Ailurus fulgens), an endangered species. He approached actor and filmmaker Dayahang Rai, who had recently been appointed a conservation ambassador for the red panda. “We didn’t have access to the technology used in the Jackie Chan video, but we had good actors and good concepts that we could make use of,” Lama, a recipient of the prestigious Whitley Award in 2022, told Mongabay. Rai was busy with numerous other projects at the time, but was sold on the concept. “He instantly agreed to the idea,” Lama said. A red panda being collared in Nepal. Image courtesy of Damber Bista Red pandas, found in India, Nepal, Bhutan and China, face threats ranging from habitat loss to illegal trapping and poaching, to accidental snaring in traps set for other animals. The species is categorized as endangered on the IUCN Red List and is included in Appendix I of CITES, the global wildlife trade convention, making its trade illegal. It’s estimated that of the fewer than 15,000 individuals that remain in the wild, around 500 roam in Nepal’s hills, where they thrive in bamboo forests. Research shows that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/innovative-nepali-psa-seeks-emotional-connection-to-save-red-pandas/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/grassroot-efforts-and-an-emmy-winning-film-help-indigenous-fight-in-brazil/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Jan 2024 14:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sarah Brown]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Crime, Deforestation, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Environmental Law, Film, Forests, Governance, Human Rights, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Logging, Mongabay Data Studio, Murdered Activists, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 2022 documentary “The Territory” won an Emmy award this January, shining a light on the Uru-eu-wau-wau Indigenous people and the invasions, conflicts and threats from land grabbers in their territory in the Brazilian Amazon from 2018 to 2021.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil’s Indigenous peoples have come under systemic attacks for five centuries, a crisis that worsened from 2019 to 2022 under the government of Jair Bolsonaro. These hostilities were encapsulated in the Emmy-winning documentary The Territory (O Território), which unveiled the challenges one Indigenous land and its population faced from land grabbers from 2018 to 2021. The film, which won the award for “exceptional merit in documentary filmmaking” this January, documents an Indigenous group’s fight against conflicts and threats from invaders in the Uru-eu-wau-wau Indigenous Territory, an area covering more than 1.8 million hectares (4.4 million acres) of the Amazon Rainforest in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. The territory is home to nine Indigenous groups, including the Jupaú (also known as the Uru-eu-wau-wau), the Oro Win, the Amondawa, and the Cabixi, as well as five communities that have not had contact with non-Indigenous people. Today, the situation in the region has improved, experts say, adding that although threats still exist, the territory has become safer and deforestation has dropped thanks to increasing visibility, local action, and a change in the federal government. The security improvements in the territory are the result of relentless grassroots efforts to defend the land and bring visibility to the issues playing out there. The film helped amplify these efforts before an international audience, bringing attention not just to the Uru-eu-wau-wau land but to Indigenous territories in general across Brazil. “The Territory” (“O Território”) won the Emmy for “exceptional merit in documentary filmmaking” in January. From left:&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/grassroot-efforts-and-an-emmy-winning-film-help-indigenous-fight-in-brazil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous women filmmakers form collective, using cameras to fight for rights</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/indigenous-women-filmmakers-form-collective-using-cameras-to-fight-for-rights/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jan 2024 10:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Matheus Lopes Quirino]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arts, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Film, Gender, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Traditional Knowledge, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[While the name Katahirine seems like it could be for an observatory or some ambitious outer space project, it is rather the name of the first audiovisual network created and run by Indigenous women in Brazil. In the language of the Manchineri people native to Brazil’s state of Acre, Katahirine means “constellation.” It was chosen [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[While the name Katahirine seems like it could be for an observatory or some ambitious outer space project, it is rather the name of the first audiovisual network created and run by Indigenous women in Brazil. In the language of the Manchineri people native to Brazil’s state of Acre, Katahirine means “constellation.” It was chosen by the collective because it implies plurality, the gathering of voices from many territories under one platform. Each filmmaker shining with camera in hand, together they are discovering the possibilities of filmmaking, an art that some years ago would have been impossible to practice in regions far from Brazil’s big cities. But as mobile phones, digital cameras and audiovisual equipment become more accessible, filmmaking today is part of the lives of dozens of Indigenous women across Brazil. There are 60 members of Katahirine – Rede Audiovisual de Mulheres Indígenas working on their own productions, including fiction and documentaries, filming the reality inside their communities from the north to the south of Brazil. For the time being, the Pantanal is the only region not filmed by a member of the network. But this could change soon, according to Mari Corrêa, filmmaker and project founder. Corrêa also created Instituto Catitu, which provides funding for Rede Katahirine. She has been developing audiovisual training programs for Indigenous peoples for 30 years — a story that began with workshops she gave in the Xingu Indigenous Park as part of the Video in Villages (Vídeo nas Aldeias) project. Corrêa had always&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/indigenous-women-filmmakers-form-collective-using-cameras-to-fight-for-rights/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bringing back the buffalo with director Ken Burns &#124; Mongabay Sessions</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/bringing-back-the-buffalo-with-director-ken-burns-mongabay-sessions/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Dec 2023 19:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Romi Castagnino]]>
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						<![CDATA[Romi Castagnino]]>
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							<![CDATA[United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Film, Green, Mammals, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In this episode of Mongabay Sessions, Mongabay staff journalist Liz Kimbrough talks with renowned filmmaker Ken Burns, delving into his latest documentary, The American Buffalo. The American Buffalo narrates the compelling story of the American bison (Bison bison), tracing its profound connection with Native Americans over centuries. The documentary sheds light on the darkest period [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In this episode of Mongabay Sessions, Mongabay staff journalist Liz Kimbrough talks with renowned filmmaker Ken Burns, delving into his latest documentary, The American Buffalo. The American Buffalo narrates the compelling story of the American bison (Bison bison), tracing its profound connection with Native Americans over centuries. The documentary sheds light on the darkest period of the animal’s near-extinction at the hands of European settlers, and, subsequently, the inspiring journey of conservation efforts that resurrected the species from the brink. As of today, the U.S. is home to around 350,000 buffalo, descendants of fewer than 100 animals. Watch the video for an in-depth discussion between Ken Burns and Liz Kimbrough. &nbsp; Read the conversation transcript here. Explore further insights into buffalo conservation efforts by Indigenous communities here. Banner image of a buffalo courtesy of Ken Burns/PBS.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/bringing-back-the-buffalo-with-director-ken-burns-mongabay-sessions/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The coveted legacy of the ‘Man of the Hole’ and his cultivated Amazon forest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/the-coveted-legacy-of-the-man-of-the-hole-and-his-cultivated-amazon-forest/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Nov 2023 07:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fabio Zuker]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Conservation, Amazon Illegal Deforestation, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Film, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous people and advocates are fighting for the Tanaru Indigenous land to remain an Indigenous territory, but ranchers want to take possession of the plot to turn it into pastures and soy fields.]]>
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							<![CDATA[One night in 1995, amid daily efforts to obtain an image of Tanaru, Indigenous expert and filmmaker Vincent Carelli had a nightmare. He dreamed that he took a safari rifle and shot a sedative dart from a distance, making the Indigenous man fall asleep. Then, he could finally film him and prove his existence. Remembered a quarter of a century later, this bad dream reveals the dilemmas experienced by Carelli over the two decades he worked on his documentary Corumbiara. Carelli had been trying for days to film Tanaru. His goal was to send the footage to a federal judge to prove an isolated Indigenous man was living in the middle of a forest that dwindled every day in the southern area of the Brazilian Amazonian state of Rondônia. The video could ignite the process of designating the land as an Indigenous territory, a protected status in Brazil that forbids non-Indigenous people from entering the land or exploiting it in any way. Since the 1980s, the region has been occupied by farmers who struggled to obtain proper land titles. If authorities were ever to recognize the land as an Indigenous site, the farmers would have to leave the place. They were willing to fight with all means at their disposal. The documentary filmmaker surrounded him with two other Indigenous experts from Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, and some recently contacted Kanoê individuals. While the Kanoê performed rituals to attract Tanaru and the Funai employees offered machetes and tools, Carelli tried&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/the-coveted-legacy-of-the-man-of-the-hole-and-his-cultivated-amazon-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘There’s hope’ for North Atlantic right whales: Q&#038;A with filmmaker Nadine Pequeneza</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/theres-hope-for-north-atlantic-right-whales-qa-with-filmmaker-nadine-pequeneza/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Feb 2022 08:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean, North America, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Policy, Extinction, Film, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Interviews, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Mammals, Oceans, Politics, Research, Saltwater Fish, Videos, Whales, and Whaling]]>
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							<![CDATA[Midway through a recent documentary called Last of the Right Whales, we get a drone’s-eye view of half a dozen jet-black right whales cuddling and caressing while lolling in an amorphous orb on the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean. The tender idyll of the scene comes through the moment the whales appear onscreen. To [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Midway through a recent documentary called Last of the Right Whales, we get a drone’s-eye view of half a dozen jet-black right whales cuddling and caressing while lolling in an amorphous orb on the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean. The tender idyll of the scene comes through the moment the whales appear onscreen. To the strains of a heart-tugging score composed by Deanna H. Choi, we surface from the film’s immersion in the dire situation these animals face to catch a glimpse of this “surface-active group.” The behavior is part mating ritual, part social break from a life that’s otherwise fairly solitary. “It was the most surreal experience,” HitPlay Productions’ Nadine Pequeneza, the film’s director, told Mongabay. The right whale’s dwindling numbers suggest that the film’s title is not hyperbolic. Only 336 Eubalaena glacialis remain, according to the latest estimate. (Their southern cousins, Eubalaena australis, are faring better.) The reasons for the animal’s decades-long slide toward extinction are legion and complex. It’s a maelstrom in which climate change-induced warming oceans have likely shifted the range of tiny copepods (their favorite prey), and the hangover from relentless whaling through the 1930s has no doubt also played a role. A North Atlantic right whale mother with her calf. Image by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, under NOAA research permit via Flickr. But the contemporary demise of the right whale in the North Atlantic boils down to a two-pronged assault on the species: ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear. Studies&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/theres-hope-for-north-atlantic-right-whales-qa-with-filmmaker-nadine-pequeneza/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Thousands of trees’ burned and logged in Cambodia: Q&#038;A with filmmaker Sean Gallagher</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/thousands-of-trees-burned-and-logged-in-cambodia-qa-with-filmmaker-sean-gallagher/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Dec 2021 11:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Crime, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Film, Fires, Forestry, Forests, Fragmentation, Governance, Illegal Logging, Logging, Politics, Protected Areas, timber trade, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Videos]]>
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							<![CDATA[In January 2020, filmmaker Sean Gallagher traveled to Cambodia with a camera, drone, and a mission: to create a film revealing the impacts of deforestation. Riding on the backs of motorbikes driven by local activists, Gallagher spent several weeks venturing deep into protected forests in Cambodia to film bulldozers pushing down trees, and intentionally lit [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In January 2020, filmmaker Sean Gallagher traveled to Cambodia with a camera, drone, and a mission: to create a film revealing the impacts of deforestation. Riding on the backs of motorbikes driven by local activists, Gallagher spent several weeks venturing deep into protected forests in Cambodia to film bulldozers pushing down trees, and intentionally lit fires, turning the land into a charred, barren wasteland. “The official line is that there isn&#8217;t any large-scale deforestation happening at the moment in protected areas,” said Gallagher, referring to claims made this year by the Cambodian government’s Ministry of Environment. But Gallagher said he got most of his footage either directly inside or next to two protected areas in Cambodia: Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary and Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. “We discovered logging yards where there were thousands upon thousands of trees that have been cut down,” Gallagher said. “I was able to get pictures, and footage of that and those images and the video footage [are] some of the first &#8230; to document some of this large-scale logging which is taking place within these protected areas.” With a grant from the Pulitzer Center, Gallagher created a short film, titled Cambodia Burning, shot entirely by drone. In the six and a half minutes, the viewer is shown how the forest is being destroyed by chainsaws, excavators and fires. In one clip, the drone camera hovers above a man using a machete to chop down the last tree in a desolate landscape. These scenes of devastation&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/thousands-of-trees-burned-and-logged-in-cambodia-qa-with-filmmaker-sean-gallagher/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In rural Nigeria, the magic of cinema builds support for ape conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/in-rural-nigeria-the-magic-of-cinema-builds-support-for-ape-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Nov 2021 12:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Orji Sunday]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Great Apes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Nigeria, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Chimpanzees, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Film, Forests, Gorillas, Great Apes, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Mammals, NGOs, Protected Areas, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[BAMBA, Nigeria — It’s sunset in Bamba, a small farming community in Cross River state in southeast Nigeria. Louis Nkonyu, 46, caresses the touchpad of his laptop in search of a wildlife movie for the night. His face is lit with sweat and the whitish radiance from the projector screen. Children sit on the cement-plastered [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BAMBA, Nigeria — It’s sunset in Bamba, a small farming community in Cross River state in southeast Nigeria. Louis Nkonyu, 46, caresses the touchpad of his laptop in search of a wildlife movie for the night. His face is lit with sweat and the whitish radiance from the projector screen. Children sit on the cement-plastered floor. Outside the hall, a small crowd leans on a wooden window frame, jostling for prime position to get a glimpse of the screen. “Good evening my people,” Nkonyu says. “Today we want to show you a movie about why we must protect our Cross River gorilla … The duty to keep the gorilla and other apes is ours. Thanks for coming and please feel free to ask questions.” When at last the movie of chimpanzees swinging from tree to tree emerged on the screen, silence fell over the room, broken only by the echoes of the loudspeaker and the rattling of a nearby generator. Each major scene and moment attracts an interpretation from Nkonyu, who switches back and forth between formal and Pidgin English. “Chimpanzees are very intelligent, and you can see how it saved the baby,” he tells the crowd, explaining a scene where a female chimpanzee allowed her infant to cling to her fur as she scurried away from an aggressive troop. The show this evening is part of a program running since 2006, in which the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) screens documentaries about apes in dozens of communities adjoining protected areas&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/in-rural-nigeria-the-magic-of-cinema-builds-support-for-ape-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New Attenborough film sounds alarm on planetary boundaries, but offers hope</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/new-attenborough-film-sounds-alarm-on-planetary-boundaries-but-offers-hope/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jun 2021 15:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Ecology, Environment, Environmental Policy, Film, Global Environmental Crisis, Impact Of Climate Change, Nutrient Pollution, Oceans, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Growing up in Sweden, environmental scientist Johan Rockström always knew the southern of the two peaks of Mount Kebnekaise was the highest point in the country. But thanks to climate change, the glacial summit has shrunk and subsequently lost its rank, scientists confirmed in 2019. “As a kid in Sweden, like all children in Sweden, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Growing up in Sweden, environmental scientist Johan Rockström always knew the southern of the two peaks of Mount Kebnekaise was the highest point in the country. But thanks to climate change, the glacial summit has shrunk and subsequently lost its rank, scientists confirmed in 2019. “As a kid in Sweden, like all children in Sweden, we learn that the south top of Kebnekaise is the highest peak in this country,” Rockström said in a newly released documentary narrated by David Attenborough. “It’s something that’s just ingrained in the identity of being a Swedish citizen. So of course it’s … with sadness one comes to realize that will no longer be the case.” Flooded forest in lowland Amazonia. Image by Rhett A. Butler. This is just one anecdote relayed in the Netflix film Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet to illustrate the impacts humans are having on the planet. The viewer is also taken to the Amazon Rainforest, which is slowly turning into a savanna due to forest loss, degradation and climate change. Then the viewer is pulled across the world to Australia, where the Great Barrier Reef experienced one of its most severe coral bleaching events shortly after catastrophic fires ripped through 11 million hectares (27.2 million acres) of land, killing about a billion native animals. These environmental issues are explained within the context of planetary boundaries, a concept developed by Rockström, the founding director of Sweden’s Stockholm Resilience Centre, and other leading scientists, including Will Steffen of Australian&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/new-attenborough-film-sounds-alarm-on-planetary-boundaries-but-offers-hope/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-243333</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Activists in Malaysia call on road planners to learn the lessons of history</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/activists-in-malaysia-call-on-road-planners-to-learn-the-lessons-of-history/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Nov 2020 05:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Southeast Asian infrastructure]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Colonization, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecology, Ecotourism, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Film, Forestry, Forests, Infrastructure, Land Rights, Logging, Mammals, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Poaching, Politics, Primates, Rainforests, Research, Roads, Rubber, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, Videos, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Noormala Anwar’s frustration comes through in an Aug. 4 video she posted on Facebook. She swings her phone’s camera back and forth, revealing a bulldozer sitting right next to her house in northeastern Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. Her children are still inside the building, which abuts the existing road. Outside, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Noormala Anwar’s frustration comes through in an Aug. 4 video she posted on Facebook. She swings her phone’s camera back and forth, revealing a bulldozer sitting right next to her house in northeastern Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. Her children are still inside the building, which abuts the existing road. Outside, construction crew members stand around, the roar of equipment in the background. In Malay and through tears, Anwar yells, “You give us a limit of one week to move out before you destroy our home.” But she and her family are staying, she says. “Let me be clear on that.” Anwar’s house stood in the way of crews and their bulldozers tasked with widening this stretch — and many other parts — of the existing road network in the state. It’s part of an effort to construct the Pan Borneo Highway, a massive infrastructure project proponents say will spur economic development in East Malaysia. Current plans call for the expansion or construction of new tarmacked road through more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of Sabah and the neighboring state of Sarawak, that will ultimately link up with a similar project in Indonesia’s provinces on the island. Proboscis monkeys are a common sight along the Kinabatangan River in Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay. After Anwar’s footage went viral on Facebook, a team working on the film Our Road Our Say interviewed her in Sabah’s Kinabatangan region. She told them that local government officials came to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/activists-in-malaysia-call-on-road-planners-to-learn-the-lessons-of-history/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>David Attenborough’s &#8216;witness statement&#8217; for the planet (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/david-attenboroughs-witness-statement-for-the-planet-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Oct 2020 09:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Matt Hayward]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Commentary, Conservation, Environment, Film, Global Environmental Crisis, Overpopulation, Pollution, Population, Water Pollution, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[David Attenborough’s latest nature documentary on Netflix may be his greatest yet. Apparently stung by criticism about the false impressions his documentaries have provided on the state of our natural world, Attenborough has produced a witness statement outlining the changes to the environment over his 94-year existence and solutions to the biodiversity crisis he has [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[David Attenborough’s latest nature documentary on Netflix may be his greatest yet. Apparently stung by criticism about the false impressions his documentaries have provided on the state of our natural world, Attenborough has produced a witness statement outlining the changes to the environment over his 94-year existence and solutions to the biodiversity crisis he has lived through. At last, Attenborough clearly illustrates the devastating impact humanity has had on our planet. Attenborough has lived through the initiation of the crisis – when he was a small boy exploring the extinct species found in quarries in 1937, 66% of the planet was wilderness. This was a world of stability – humanity’s Garden of Eden – that led to the Agricultural Revolution and our ability to expand our populations and distribution. By the time Attenborough filmed his Zoo Quest series in 1954, 64% of the planet was wilderness. When Bernard Grzimek illustrated to the world in 1960 that wildlife needed huge areas, like the Serengeti, to persist, the planet’s wilderness had dropped to 62%. Soon after, missions to space showed the Earth as a lonely, isolated rock covered with water, and we began to recognize that we needed to look after our home. In Attenborough’s words, “Our home was not limitless. We are ultimately bound by and defined by the resources on this planet.” When Attenborough showed the world how similar we are to some of our closest relatives, mountain gorillas, in his Life on Earth series in 1978, wilderness had dropped&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/david-attenboroughs-witness-statement-for-the-planet-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-236216</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Research behind award-winning documentary film reveals new species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/research-behind-award-winning-documentary-film-reveals-new-species/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Sep 2020 17:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global Forests]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Ecuador and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Film, Forests, Media, Rainforests, Species Discovery, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A first-of-its-kind study conducted within the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve&#8217;s Intangible Zone (IZ) in Ecuador and captured in the film “Yasuní Man,” can now be found on streaming services. The zone is an area set aside for the Tagaeri and Taromenane, two Waorani clans living in voluntary isolation. Yasuní Biosphere Reserve is one of the most biodiverse spots [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A first-of-its-kind study conducted within the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve&#8217;s Intangible Zone (IZ) in Ecuador and captured in the film “Yasuní Man,” can now be found on streaming services. The zone is an area set aside for the Tagaeri and Taromenane, two Waorani clans living in voluntary isolation. Yasuní Biosphere Reserve is one of the most biodiverse spots on earth&#8211;and while there are research stations in the northern part of its area, the southern edge of the park and the intangible zone are difficult to access. Since being released in 2017, the film festival circuit gave “Yasuní Man” 35 official selections, 23 award nominations and 15 award wins. It was screened in 15 states in the U.S. and 16 countries. It’s also been translated into 9 languages. A partnership with the United Nations CINE-ONU was also formed, as well as a worldwide distribution streaming deal with Journeyman Pictures. The region in which the survey was carried out is largely unexplored, especially during modern times. It is in a transition zone between bird faunas in northern Peru between the Marañon/Amazon river and the Pastaza/Napo drainages.  These two areas share many species, but also are different in ways that are not yet fully understood, especially where species turnover occurs. Mongabay spoke with some of the research team members about their work and what’s next. Osteocephalus vilmae. Image ©&#xfe0f;Ryan P. Killackey. Tell us about your collaboration with Amazon Watch? Through a distribution deal with Journeyman Pictures out of London, “Yasuní  Man” is now available on a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/research-behind-award-winning-documentary-film-reveals-new-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-234580</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New road cutting into Manu Biosphere Reserve in Peruvian Amazon sparks debate, fears and a film</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/new-road-cutting-into-manu-biosphere-reserve-in-peruvian-amazon-sparks-debate-fears-and-a-film/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Aug 2020 10:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Film, Forests, Illegal Logging, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Infrastructure, Interviews, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Protected Areas, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last week a new film was released that documents the building of a road into the Manu Biosphere Reserve in the Peruvian Amazon. It&#8217;s a story of conflict, community development, and deforestation deep in a protected rainforest. Produced by a team of women that spent weeks filming in Indigenous communities that both welcome and fear [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last week a new film was released that documents the building of a road into the Manu Biosphere Reserve in the Peruvian Amazon. It&#8217;s a story of conflict, community development, and deforestation deep in a protected rainforest. Produced by a team of women that spent weeks filming in Indigenous communities that both welcome and fear the road, &#8220;Voices on the Road&#8221; also features what the filmmakers call an impact campaign. To learn more about the issue and their filmmaking strategy, Mongabay interviewed co-director and co-producer Bethan John via email. Mongabay: Can you describe the region where the film is set, its people, and natural heritage? Bethan John: Voices on the Road is set in a fascinating corner of Peru’s southeastern Amazon, a place called Manu Biosphere Reserve, which is rich in natural and cultural diversity. To get there, you travel across the dizzying heights of the Andes mountains, plunging down through elfin forest and cloud forest, to arrive in the streaming heat of the jungle. It’s this incredible altitudinal range that makes Manu so diverse and its remote location means it&#8217;s been relatively protected. Manu is home to endangered and endemic wildlife, as well as a number of different Indigenous communities, including some that live in voluntary isolation. The road will reach Diamante Native Community this year and is likely to be extended to meet the Interoceanic Highway in 2021. Photo courtesy of Bethan John Peru has declared road building in this Amazon region a priority, a move that is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/new-road-cutting-into-manu-biosphere-reserve-in-peruvian-amazon-sparks-debate-fears-and-a-film/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-234036</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘New’ footage released of the last Tasmanian tiger</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/new-footage-released-of-the-last-tasmanian-tiger/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 May 2020 02:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Australia and Tasmania]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Charismatic Animals, Endangered Species, Extinction, Film, Saving Species From Extinction, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a 21-second newsreel clip, Benjamin, a thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) who lived at Beaumaris Zoo in Tasmania, paces the length of his concrete enclosure as two men rattle the chain-link barrier. “The Tasmanian tiger,” the film’s narrator says, “easily distinguished by his straight, unjointed tail, is also a dangerous opponent, though like the [Tasmanian] devil, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a 21-second newsreel clip, Benjamin, a thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) who lived at Beaumaris Zoo in Tasmania, paces the length of his concrete enclosure as two men rattle the chain-link barrier. “The Tasmanian tiger,” the film’s narrator says, “easily distinguished by his straight, unjointed tail, is also a dangerous opponent, though like the [Tasmanian] devil, is now very rare, being forced out of its natural habitat by the march of civilization.” For many years, there were only a few black-and-white reels — with a combined running time of about 3 minutes — of the now-extinct thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger. This “new” clip was recorded in 1935 as part of a travelogue called Tasmania the Wonderland, but it was only digitalized and released by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) this month. “The scarcity of thylacine footage makes every second of moving image really precious,” Simon Smith, curator at the NFSA, said in a statement. “We&#8217;re very excited to make this newly-digitised footage available to everyone online.” Thousands of years ago, the thylacine roamed across New Guinea and mainland Australia, but the species disappeared from these regions due to hunting, and possibly because of competition with the dingo (Canis lupus dingo). In modern times, the thylacine only existed in Tasmania, a small island at the southeastern tip of Australia, but European settlers drove the species toward extinction with rampant hunting, habitat destruction and introduced disease. Benjamin, one of the last surviving thylacines, was acquired by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/new-footage-released-of-the-last-tasmanian-tiger/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-230645</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘Hummingbird’ spy creature films millions of monarchs taking flight</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/hummingbird-spy-creature-films-billions-of-monarchs-taking-flight/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 May 2020 13:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Mexico]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Butterflies, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Deforestation, Drones, Endangered Species, Environment, Film, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Insects, Migration, Protected Areas, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Up in the cool Mexican mountains, countless monarch butterflies gather together for the winter. When the sun warms their wings to just the right temperature, the mass of monarchs take flight. This dazzling display has now been filmed like never before — by a hovering spy camera disguised as a hummingbird. The footage is part [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Up in the cool Mexican mountains, countless monarch butterflies gather together for the winter. When the sun warms their wings to just the right temperature, the mass of monarchs take flight. This dazzling display has now been filmed like never before — by a hovering spy camera disguised as a hummingbird. The footage is part of PBS NATURE’s Spy in the Wild series. The series features footage from hidden cameras placed inside animatronic “spies” to get an up-close look at the lives of animals. Spy in the Wild explores the idea of animal emotions and tendencies such as a capacity to love, grieve, deceive, and invent. The series makes use of “Spy Creatures” to infiltrate groups of orangutans, meerkats, egrets, tortoises, sloths, cobras and hippos, to name a few. Monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico. Image by Rafael Saldaña via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). The spy creatures were created by John Downer Productions, Ltd. an award-winning production company based in the U.K. that specializes in making wildlife films. John Downer and his team have pioneered many of the innovative techniques used for filming wildlife in current nature documentaries. In an interview with NATURE, some of the team discussed how their spy cams were made and some of the challenges involved. “We wanted to make a small spy creature that could explore and maneuver through a forest and film one of the most fragile creatures in the entire series, monarch butterflies,” Phil Dalton of John Downer Productions said in the interview. “We&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/hummingbird-spy-creature-films-billions-of-monarchs-taking-flight/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-229755</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New film details wrenching impact of illegal rhino horn trade on families</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/new-film-details-wrenching-impact-of-illegal-rhino-horn-trade-on-a-family/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Jun 2019 07:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, China, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Black Rhino, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Film, Global Environmental Crisis, Insects, Mammals, Natural Capital, Natural Resources, Parks, Poaching, Politics, Protected Areas, Rhinos, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Traditional Chinese Medicine, White Rhino, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Communities around the world often pay a hidden toll in the global wildlife trade. Across its 17 minutes, Sides of a Horn, a new film released June 25, aims to capture that part of the illegal trade. The story takes place in South Africa. No country, we are reminded, has a larger rhino population — [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Communities around the world often pay a hidden toll in the global wildlife trade. Across its 17 minutes, Sides of a Horn, a new film released June 25, aims to capture that part of the illegal trade. The story takes place in South Africa. No country, we are reminded, has a larger rhino population — or a greater gap between the wealthy and poor. When a rhino approaches the national park boundary near an impoverished township, the stark choice it presents threatens to tear a family apart. Dumi, played by South African actor Welile Nzuza, is a wildlife ranger in the park, and he’s waiting for his salary to pay for medical treatment that his ailing sister, Lindiwe, played by Dimpho Motloung, desperately needs. But her husband, Sello, played by Sherldon Marema, is sure that a week will be too long, and he wants to go after the rhino. Its horn could fetch $3,000, setting up a confrontation between the two men. “I know the lives of my people are more valuable than the lives of wild animals,” Sello tells Dumi in Zulu, the language spoken throughout much of the film. But Dumi reminds Sello that the loss of another rhino means more resources flowing out of their country. On the international market, the filmmakers point out, the horn might be worth $300,000. Sello must decide whether to pursue the rhino that has approached the national park boundary near the township where he lives with his family. Image © Whirlow&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/new-film-details-wrenching-impact-of-illegal-rhino-horn-trade-on-a-family/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-219865</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Virtual Reality 360-degree video: An “empathy-generating machine” for conservation outreach?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/virtual-reality-360-degree-video-an-empathy-generating-machine-for-conservation-outreach/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Apr 2019 14:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, cameras, Communication, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Education, Film, Software, Solutions, Technology, Videos, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[People of all ages love wildlife videos, whether it’s seeing previously unheard-of species, species interactions, or baby animals at play. New video technology that films in 360 degrees brings viewers into the middle of the action and is set to become a powerful outreach tool that can build understanding and empathy for wildlife and wild [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[People of all ages love wildlife videos, whether it’s seeing previously unheard-of species, species interactions, or baby animals at play. New video technology that films in 360 degrees brings viewers into the middle of the action and is set to become a powerful outreach tool that can build understanding and empathy for wildlife and wild places. As the use of virtual reality (VR) for teaching, building awareness, and marketing grows globally, the conservation community is also testing the technology through various innovative applications, such as viewing the world through the eyes of another species. Virtual Reality-360 video is another. VR-360 for conservation, in which video filmed in the wild is shown on VR goggles or a digital screen, is in the early stages of development but evolving rapidly. VR-360 puts the viewer in the middle of the action, an ideal perspective to help conservation projects conduct outreach about a species, place or threat, or to generate support for a protected area or conservation initiative. Putting on a pair of VR goggles can virtually transport you anywhere, in an instant. It takes you to the site of the activity, where you feel more like a participant in, rather than a remote viewer of, the situation. An emerging technology now available It’s already possible to film in VR-360 and present results of acceptable quality with off-the-shelf, plug-and-play products, reviewed here and here. Filming in 360 degrees initially required strapping several small video cameras together with the lenses facing in different directions and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/virtual-reality-360-degree-video-an-empathy-generating-machine-for-conservation-outreach/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-217406</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Those kicks were fast as lightning: Kangaroo rats evade deadly snake strikes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/those-kicks-were-fast-as-lightning-kangaroo-rats-evade-deadly-snake-strikes/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/those-kicks-were-fast-as-lightning-kangaroo-rats-evade-deadly-snake-strikes/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>04 Apr 2019 12:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arizona, Southwest United States, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, cameras, Deserts, Film, Predators, Research, Rodents, Technology, Tracking, Videos, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A student-led research team from three California universities has shown that desert kangaroo rats frequently avoid predation by rattlesnakes through a combination of speedy reaction times, powerful near-vertical leaps, and mid-air, ninja-style kicks. The research team tracked free-ranging rattlesnakes using radio telemetry and set up high-speed video cameras to capture potential predatory interactions when tagged [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A student-led research team from three California universities has shown that desert kangaroo rats frequently avoid predation by rattlesnakes through a combination of speedy reaction times, powerful near-vertical leaps, and mid-air, ninja-style kicks. A desert kangaroo rat in the desert of the southwestern United States leaps over a sidewinder rattlesnake to avoid predation. Image courtesy of the research website, ninjarat.org. The research team tracked free-ranging rattlesnakes using radio telemetry and set up high-speed video cameras to capture potential predatory interactions when tagged snakes took on their ambush postures near active kangaroo rat burrows or foraging kangaroo rats. The researchers recently published their findings on the factors affecting snake predation success and potential advantages of bipedalism among small mammals. Deadly predators and athletic prey Both sidewinder rattlesnakes (Crotalus cerastes) and desert kangaroo rats (Dipodomys deserti) are nocturnal residents of the deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Rattlesnakes are ambush predators, meaning they sit still for long periods waiting until prey unaware of their presence get close enough. They eat various small mammals, including kangaroo rats, and attack by suddenly and rapidly launching themselves toward their prey and killing it with a venomous bite. Avoiding the stealthy strikes of a hunting rattlesnake at night, therefore, requires exceptional speed and athletic ability. Kangaroo rats have both: they and other bipedal small mammals frequently evade ambush predation by snakes. The seed-eating desert kangaroo rat in a quiet daytime moment. Its exceptional hearing, long tail, and long, powerful legs all contribute to its ability&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/those-kicks-were-fast-as-lightning-kangaroo-rats-evade-deadly-snake-strikes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous-made film explores traditional textile making in the Ecuadorian Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/indigenous-made-film-traditional-textile-production-in-ecuadorian-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Feb 2019 13:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Taran Volckhausen]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
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							<![CDATA[GLO-4060 QZA-16/0047.4]]>
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							<![CDATA[Before clothes from the outside world arrived, the Sápara people of the Ecuadoran Amazon made their own clothes from tree bark harvested in the rainforest. Today, the Sápara are in danger of losing this millenary cultural knowledge as commercial clothing and extractive oil projects threaten their traditional way of life. Enter filmmaker Lenin “Yanda” Montahuano, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Before clothes from the outside world arrived, the Sápara people of the Ecuadoran Amazon made their own clothes from tree bark harvested in the rainforest. Today, the Sápara are in danger of losing this millenary cultural knowledge as commercial clothing and extractive oil projects threaten their traditional way of life. Enter filmmaker Lenin “Yanda” Montahuano, 28, who produced a short documentary, Sápara Clothing: A Tradition in Danger, in an attempt to restore Sápara cultural knowledge for younger generations and show the world that the Sápara indigenous people’s culture remains alive in the Amazon rainforest. “We wanted to produce this because very few people know about this,” Montahuano said. “As a young Sápara, I wanted to nourish myself from the knowledge of my elders, my grandparents. We don’t want these traditions to be lost.” The film was produced with fellow filmmaker Samantha Castro, who lives in Quito, Ecuador, and was commissioned by If Not Us Then Who?, a U.S.-based nonprofit that aims to highlight the roles that indigenous and local peoples play as stewards of the environment.* In the film, Montahuano’s uncle Arturo Santi shares the story of how the Sápara people learned to produce clothing from the bark of the llanchama tree that “grows in the heart of the forest.” “There used to be no clothing, so long ago our grandparents taught this to us,” Santo says in the film. “During this time thousands of years ago, [the ancestors] learned how to make dresses, bedding, shirts, and chalinas used to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/indigenous-made-film-traditional-textile-production-in-ecuadorian-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Short film celebrates community forest titles in DRC</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/new-short-film-celebrates-community-forest-titles-in-drc/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Feb 2019 13:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Community Development, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Environment, Film, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Reform, Land Rights, Law, NGOs, Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[GLO-4060 QZA-16/0047.4]]>
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							<![CDATA[The legal rights to manage local forests, recently awarded to communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have the potential to improve lives and protect the country’s block of equatorial rainforest, according to a new film from the Rainforest Foundation UK. “Our forest has lots of natural resources, and now we can find solutions [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The legal rights to manage local forests, recently awarded to communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have the potential to improve lives and protect the country’s block of equatorial rainforest, according to a new film from the Rainforest Foundation UK. “Our forest has lots of natural resources, and now we can find solutions to better manage them,” Florence, a woman from the village of Irebu, says in the six-and-a-half-minute film. A 2014 law in the DRC allows communities to ask for legal title to forest concessions of 500 square kilometers (193 square miles). Then, in May 2018, the country’s environment minister approved a plan to hand out these titles, reaffirming the national government’s backing of the importance of these community-managed forests. Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and other organizations had cautioned the government that allowing the requests to go forward without such a plan in place could accelerate the destruction of forests. For the past several years, staff from RFUK and its local partners, including the DRC-based NGO Group d’Action pour Sauver l’Homme et son Environnement (GASHE), have been working in Irebu and nine other villages in the western DRC as part of a pilot project. Their aim has been to help community members understand their legal rights and to incorporate the perspectives of the men, women and young people living in each village in local forest management. The organizations say this awareness is imperative in a country where more than 40 million people, around half the population, rely&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/new-short-film-celebrates-community-forest-titles-in-drc/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In India, indigenous youths are filming their own forests and communities</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/in-india-indigenous-youths-are-filming-their-own-forests-and-communities/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Dec 2018 00:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, India, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Film, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Mammals, Protected Areas, Solutions, Tropical Forests, Videos, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[ACF2018]]>
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							<![CDATA[Read the other stories in this four-part series on the indigenous groups living around Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, India: From a new bird to a new community reserve: India’s tribe sets example Bird business: The man who taught his tribe to profit from conservation Two Indian tribes help reconstruct a forest’s history, in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Read the other stories in this four-part series on the indigenous groups living around Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, India: From a new bird to a new community reserve: India’s tribe sets example Bird business: The man who taught his tribe to profit from conservation Two Indian tribes help reconstruct a forest’s history, in war and in peace &nbsp; RUPA, India — When Tallo Anthony joined the local forest department in 2011 as a computer operator after finishing high school, it wasn’t because he particularly liked computers. Nor did he have much interest in forests or wildlife. “I joined only because I was looking for a job,” he says. In fact, despite having grown up in Rupa, a town just some 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the stunning Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, Anthony knew very little about the forests surrounding his home. He was content with having secured a job that gave him a stable income. This was important because he wanted to support his mother, who had singlehandedly raised him and his three siblings since his father passed away in 2008. His desire to help take care of his family was also why he hadn’t been able to pursue what he actually wanted to learn: photography and filmmaking. Anthony, who belongs to the Apatani tribe, kept his interest in filming alive by watching YouTube videos. “I learned about cameras, what it means to edit, how to edit, and so on, through online videos,”&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/in-india-indigenous-youths-are-filming-their-own-forests-and-communities/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Documenting the African elephant’s ‘last stand’: Q&#038;A with filmmakers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/documenting-the-african-elephants-last-stand-qa-with-filmmaker-cyril-christo/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 May 2018 05:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Culture, Elephants, Environment, Environmental Law, Extinction, Film, Global Environmental Crisis, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Ivory, Mammals, Oil, Oil Drilling, Over-hunting, Parks, Poaching, Primates, Protected Areas, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Walking Thunder” can feel like a family trip around the continent of Africa — if your parents were award-winning photographers and explorers. The mesmerizing film about the African elephant by husband-and-wife team Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson basks in wide-open landscapes, intimate conversations with Africa’s indigenous herders and hunters, and haunting, close-up stares from the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Walking Thunder” can feel like a family trip around the continent of Africa — if your parents were award-winning photographers and explorers. The mesmerizing film about the African elephant by husband-and-wife team Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson basks in wide-open landscapes, intimate conversations with Africa’s indigenous herders and hunters, and haunting, close-up stares from the largest living land animal on Earth. But the film is really about Lysander, Christo and Wilkinson’s son, and we see much of the story through his eyes. He’s our guide as the family learns of the complex relationship that the Samburu, the Maasai and the Waliangulu peoples of East Africa have with the elephant. Even early on — the film draws from more than a decade and a half of footage — just as Lysander is beginning to walk and talk, his insatiable curiosity about elephants shifts the perspective that one might expect from a documentary on African wildlife. We soon discover with Lysander the dangers that elephants everywhere face, and he and his parents wrestle with the prospect of losing them forever. Even as governments around the world take strides toward ending the ivory trade, as China and the United Kingdom have done, poaching to supply tusks mostly to Asian markets continues. Some 20,000 elephants fall to poachers’ weapons each year, according to WWF, and that’s just in Africa. The crisis has spilled beyond its shores, with illegal hunting of even the world’s smallest elephants in Borneo. And recent evidence confirms that poachers are&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/documenting-the-african-elephants-last-stand-qa-with-filmmaker-cyril-christo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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