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Can tropical rainforests be saved?

Discusses the economic, social and political pressures that have led to the partial destruction of the world's rainforests and some steps to save them.

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  • "Can the tropical rainforests be saved?"
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  • "Discusses the economic, social and political pressures that have led to the partial destruction of the world's rainforests and some steps to save them."@en
  • "Examines the rapid depletion of the world's rain forests, detailing destruction/exploitation in Brazil's Amazon jungle, Indonesia, Philippines, Sarawak, Thailand, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Camaroon, Madagascar, Peru, Costa Rica. Contrasts the plight of indigenous peoples with benefits (forest industry jobs, medical drugs, wood products especially in demand in Japan). Studies the importance of rain forest conservation to global ecology."
  • "Examines ways in which rainforests are being depleted and discusses the need for their survival. Filmed in over a dozen forest countries and in Japan, the world's largest importer of tropical wood."
  • "Examines ways in which rainforests are being depleted and discusses the needs for their survival. Filmed in over a dozen forest countries and in Japan, the world's largest importer of tropical wood."@en
  • ""Examines ways in which rainforests are being depleted and discusses the needs for their survival. Filmed in over a dozen forest countries and in Japan, the world's largest importer of tropical wood.""
  • "From a global perspective, examines ways in which rainforests are being depleted and the needs for their survival. Studies rainforests and deforestation in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Includes Japan, the world's largest importer of rainforest wood; the Amazon; Indonesia; the Penans of Sarawak and the Batacs of Palawan, who are fighting to save their forest; Thailand and Ivory Coast; the Philippines; Costa Rica; Rwanda; Camaroon; Madagascar; and Panama, where the Kuna Indians are working to preserve their rainforest."
  • "Documentary focusing on the disappearing rainforests; filmed in over a dozen rainforested countries and in the nation that environmentalists claim is the biggest problem--Japan."@en
  • "A primetime PBS telecast, depicts why the forests are important, why they 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."

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  • "Can tropical rainforests be saved?"
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