Can Tropical Rainforests be Saved?
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Overview
- Genre
- Contemporary Issues, Foreign Worlds, Environment, Investigation, and Social Issues
- Synopsis
Save the rainforests! The plea has been seen and heard everywhere. While tropical rainforests are a part of many regions of the world, virtually all attention has focused on the Amazon. Until now, no documentary has presented a global examination of this critical global question. This documentary circles the planet in search of answers.
Filmed in a dozen rainforested countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America - as well as in Japan, the world's largest importer of tropical rainforest wood. Prime focus is on the human and economic dimensions. Included are tribal people, new settlers, squatters, farmers, loggers, government, industry and environmental leaders.
"Can Tropical..." depicts why the forests are vanishing, who is responsible, the human and environmental results, the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of protection measures, and what else can be done to save them.- Treatment
- Show treatment
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 116 minutes
Credits
- Robert Richter ... Producer, Director, Writer, Reporter
- Burleigh Wartes ... Cinematographer
- Robert Achs ... Addl. Cinematography
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Richter Productions, Inc.
- Country
- United States
- Years of Production
- 1988-90
- Locations
- Madagascar, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 1991
- Awards
- PBS Prime Time Broadcast
- Distribution
- Distributor: Richter Productions
- Language
- English, Spanish, Portugese, Japanese, French
- Subtitles
- English
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