Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Preserving the Rain Forest

Preserving the Rain Forest

Humans came out of the African forest, and continue to live in equilibrium with the tropical forest in Africa, Brazil, and elsewhere—hunting, fishing, collecting plants. Trouble only begins when humans begin to cultivate plants in the forest, cutting down trees and burning brush; the soil is soon exhausted, and the would-be farmers move elsewhere. As long as this is done on a small scale, nature can heal the damage, as happened among the Mayas of the Yucatan. But population growth combined with greed and technological efficiency have long since outstripped the ability of the forest to regenerate itself and are boding ecological disaster. In counterpoint to the unimpeded destruction of the Brazilian forest, the forest of Tai, in the Ivory Coast, is an example of a tropical forest habitat that is being used as a natural reserve and as a site for controlled agricultural and industrial activity. (24 minutes)

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Item#: BVL2339
Copyright date: ©1991
VHS ISBN 978-1-56950-045-3

Part of the Series : Man and the Biosphere


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