The film follows a team of tiger poachers in the jungles of Sumatra as they track and kill their 31st tiger in the space of one year. This film is extremely graphic and upsetting.
Live animals are taken from the wild and trafficked to rich collectors in Asia and the West from the remote regions of Indonesia and South America.
Ivory, rhino horn and exotic animal parts from endangered species can be trafficked and traded for enormous profit. The film follows some of those trade routes.
Australia has a unique range of flora and fauna. Many birds and reptiles are so common that they can be bought for a few dollars. But in Europe and America they can be worth many thousands. So the illegal export trade can be really profitable to ruthless smugglers.
The trade in furs and crocodile skins flourishes despite decades of international condemnation. The film meets some of the poor people of South America who depend on this trade for their survival.
The Global Environment Facility was established to enact the proposals of the World Environment Summit in Rio. Harrison Ford is a patron of GEF and presents this appraisal of its achievements.
The Global Environment Facility was established to enact the proposals of the World Environment Summit in Rio. This film was made to promote their achievements.
The Danube is the longest river in Europe, running through seven countries from its source in Switzerland to the delta in the Black Sea. It has been heavily polluted in the past but with more international co-operation since the collapse of the soviet empire its prospects are more hopeful.
Part 1 of 2. Fleets of massive trawlers from the East are threatening the offshore fishermen in the rich seas off the coast of West Africa with impunity. Their illegal catches are then slipped into European waters to be sold throughout the EU.
Part 2 of 2. Fleets of massive trawlers from the East are threatening the offshore fishermen in the rich seas off the coast of West Africa with impunity. Their illegal catches are then slipped into European waters to be sold throughout the EU.
This film exposed the scale of the pollution affecting the Black Sea in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the newly independent country of Slovakia is building a dam to block the Danube river which will have dramatic effects on the countries downstream, Hungary in particular.
Jemima Parry-Jones was a trailblazer in the movement to protect birds of prey in Britain. Her Falconry Centre in Gloucestershire was in the forefront of captive breeding programmes for these threatened species.
Turtles are under threat all over the world. The Caribbean Conservation Foundation based in Florida is setting up research and direct action programmes to preserve the turtles of the Caribbean waters. Filmed in Florida and Costa Rica.
Orangutans are under terrible threat throughout Indonesia. In Borneo there is an organisation which is rescuing trapped adults and abandoned orphans for eventual release back into the wild.
A tropical algae is threatening the waters of the Mediterranean and has now reached the coast of Southern California. Made for BBC Horizon.
The ecologically crucial mangrove regions around the world are being destroyed to create profitable shrimp farms.
The fishing communities of the Volga Delta on the Caspian Sea are struggling to survive after the collapse of the Soviet Union as major crime syndicates move in on the lucrative trade in caviar.
Forest fires are endemic in the south of France but changes in the culture and the environmental impact of tourism have seen an increase in deliberate arson. The fire fighters of the region are facing more perilous contact with the blazes.
METAP is bringing all the countries bordering the Mediterranean to work together to protect and preserve this sea that is fundamental to our history and culture.
In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union the world became aware of the devastating impact on the environment and on the health of the people by brown coal and uranium mining in the former East Germany and Czechoslovakia.
The environmental activist Andrew Lees disappeared in suspicious circumstances while exposing illegal mining operations by Rio Tinto Zinc in Madagascar. Dr. Jonathan Kaplan investigates his friend’s untimely death.
Filmed in the six countries which border the Black Sea, this programme was one episode of the series Earth Report on BBC World. The film revisited the region where we had made an award-winning programme ten years earlier to see how the environment had fared. The result was a surprisingly positive report on a region whose ecology was much improved, partly as a by-product of the collapse of agriculture and industry after the fall of the Soviet empire and partly as a result of EU pressure in the region.