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Exodus
( English / 50 min. )
Country : UK
Production Co. : TV 6 for the BBC/TVE
Producer : Mick Rhodes
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In April 1994, 250,000 people fleeing Rwanda’s bloody
war set up camp across the border in Tanzania. Almost
overnight, Bamako
refugee camp had effectively
become Tanzania’s second largest city. With
50,000
families requiring fuelwood and drinking water, this ‘city’
soon began to have a devastating effect on the
surrounding forests and
local water supply. Facing a
catastrophe, representatives of the aid
charity CARA
ordered an environmental impact assessment, to find
ways to
reduce the destruction and establish a blueprint
for future refugee
policy. The research suggested
practical solutions: supplying fuel to
prevent
deforestation, and protecting groundwater by building
dams to
catch rainwater. But underlying this was
conclusion that international
policy towards refugees -
short-term crisis management rather than
long-term
solutions - was the root of the problem.
We the Peoples
( English / 30 min. )
Country : UK/India/South Africa/Latvia/Colombia
Production Co. : Cariton Productions, TVE
Producer : Marc de Beaufort
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All round the world today grassroots groups are taking
action to
safeguard their environment. Commissioned by
TVE from local producers, WE
THE PEOPLES tells the
stories of six inspiring community groups - in Nigeria,
India, Colombia, Latvia,
Panama and South Africa -
which show that there is no barrier between
environment and human rights. In Nigeria, the minority
500,000-strong
Ogoni people are protesting at the oil
companies’ devastation of their
fertile agricultural land.
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In India, traditional fishermen oppose
unsustainable
fishing by industrial trawlers. In Central America, the
indigenous Embera people are fighting to preserve their
biologically-rich
jungle home-land in the Darien Gap,
while in South Africa the people of
Pongoland resist
attempts to evict them from their land to make way for a
reserve.
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Parks or People
( English / 39 min. )
Country : Cameroon
Production Co. : Forest Films
Producer/Director : Damien Lewis
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Korup National Park and the Kilum Mountain Forest are
two
state-of-the-art rainforest projects in Cameroon:
PARKS OR PEOPLE explores
the relative merits of the
two approaches to forest conservation they
represent.
Kilum, set up by the International Council for Bird
Preservation, is small scale and relies on local
expertise. Korup, a more
ambitious project by the World
Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), began moving
out of the
forest reserve, whilst Kilum actively encourages local
people
to move back in to practise the sustainable use of
forest resources. Winner of Wildscreen Golden Panda
Award, PARKS OR PEOPLE argues that in the long
run, rainforest conservation can only work if it involves
local people in the protection of their own rainforest.
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