The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.
Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell. Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared. While you read these words, somewhere in the world people are cutting down rainforest trees. What are these wonderful places that we call rainforests - and is it too late to save them?
The exotic sights and sounds of the many insects, reptiles, birds and other animals thriving in the tropical rainforest are explored in this program. It presents facts about where animals live, what they eat, how they adapt to changes in their environment and how they protect themselves from predators. Children will be intrigued by an incredible variety of species, including iguanas, jaguars, tapirs, coatimundis, snakes, sloths, spiders, caterpillars, beetles, katydids, mantises, butterflies, howler monkeys, spider monkeys, scarlet...
