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• Reveal The current forces affecting the • Direct attention to initiatives known to
human landscape. work.
• Celebrate cultural and environmental • Examine man’s relationship with nature.
diversity. • Introduce the positive application of new
• Express the opinions, hopes and fears of media and technologies.
those the team encounter. • Communicate the need for collaboration.
• Review the efforts, activities and science • React to and incorporate contributions
of our changing world. made by the audience.
• Present solutions and debate actions. • Challenge preconceptions.
• Seek wisdom from lesser-known and • Celebrate the spirit of adventure.
varied sources. • Instil a sense of hope for the future.
• Question the human and environmental • Inspire young minds with new ways of
cost of our every action. thinking.
• Highlight the hardship, inequality and
pressures faced by the developing
world.
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© Youngheart Entertainment Limited / Justin Hall 2007
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GREEN WALL OF CHINA:
Taming the Yellow Dragon
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© Youngheart Entertainment Limited / Justin Hall 2007
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‘A WALK IN THE PARK’
TRANSAMAZION HIGHWAY
• AMAZION REGION: BRAZIL
• Amid stories of global warming, escalating deforestation, bandits, gold diggers and
threatened tribes, the team sets out to travel the length of the (yet to be completed)
TRANSAMAZION HIGHWAY: 11 Questions, 11 encounters, 1100 miles…starkly
revealing what is happening to the ‘lungs of the Earth’.
• BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, SA
• People and champions of the lawless Favelas and communities living in the sewers beneath
South America’s most dangerous city, child prostitution and the activities of contract child
killers, known as ‘Death Squads’. The rare efforts of Jaime Jaramillo, ‘The Ghetto Saint’.
Focussing on a fascinating rehabilitation project set in the Amazonian jungle called ‘Back To
Basics’, where twenty convicted killers (Death Squad members) are taken through tribal
ceremonies designed to put aside the past… involving elements such as live burial, spiritual
flight and swimming with pink river dolphins.
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WHALE HUNTERS OF LAMALEYA
• LAMALEYA, INDONESIA
• Tribes people of the isolated village of Lamaleya, hunt whales and whale sharks
with hand-thrown harpoons from kayaks. An intimate relationship with the ocean
and rich ancestral bonds, passed down through the ages. See them ride to the death,
the backs of the whales they hunt and spear. The issue at hand is obvious, but the
sensitive cultural context is little known and revealed in the telling of this rare
access story.
• WORLDWIDE
• Over the next 10 years, researchers will gather every scrap of information that
exists on the planet's 1.8 million known species of animals, plants and other
organisms to build up an enormous Encyclopaedia of Life. When completed, it will
be made available freely to anyone with an internet connection, as the most
comprehensive repository of life as we know it.
• CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH
• With one of the world's longest beaches, Chittagong is where half of the world's super tankers
are disassembled. But conditions in the shipyards are dangerous. Many workers are barefoot
and without gloves, dealing with razorsharp metal, hot steel, and pollutants. The ship-breaking
industry employs an estimated 200,000 Bangladeshis. The scrap metal stripped off these
vessels supplies 80 percent of Bangladesh's steel. Eventually nothing but tiny fragments
remain, buried in the mud. From dawn to dusk, local women and children scavenge the beach,
collecting these small shards of metal to sell to Chittagong's local merchants.
• THE BRAZIL ATLANTIC RAINFOREST PROJECT: This large scale project aims to preserve a
range of ancient Amazonian rainforest creating a 200 kilometre long corridor that reconnects the
remnants to ancient forest, preserving its biodiversity.
• Increasing biomass density through reforestation, the project works with surrounding communities,
alleviating poverty and supplying alternatives to slash and burn subsistence farming.
• Core objective: The preservation of 500,000 hectares of remaining primitive rainforest
• Core objective: The establishment of carbon sequestration sites totalling 12,675 hectares, with an
estimated carbon sequestration potential and storage capacity of 1.6 billion tonnes of carbon.
• 145,000 people live on the boundaries of this ambitious project. 80WAYS explores the region, directing
attention to how the audience can help.
• We know lots of websites like ‘Do The Green Thing’ but we think it’s worth
special mention. It works on the principle that each of us can make a difference,
and that the collective impact of individual actions can amount to calculable
environmental benefit.
• How it works: every month people are given a simple eco task: they must ‘walk
to work’ instead of taking transport, ‘take the stairs’ instead of the lift, or simply
‘change a bulb’ etc. All they have to do is one simple thing!
• To date 44,867 people have taken part across 134 countries. As a result, this
inspiring UK initiative with whom we will collaborate, has already saved over
755.54 tonnes of CO2… It’s that simple.
• Through our website and its communities we will suggest and debate multiple
ways that people can take action.
• HUACACHINA, PERU
• For thousands of years, Huacachina has been a beacon of green, hidden deep amid hundreds
of miles of barren desert. Over the centuries its glimmering waters have saved the lives of
hundreds of sun-addled travellers. Today, however, the tiny community is under threat. The
oasis is running low because, with global warming causing ever-worsening water shortages,
the nearby city of Ica (population 200,000) is plundering its underground river for drinking
water. The desert area is famous for fossilised shark teeth and whales bones.
• INDONESIA
• Dynamite and Cyanide fishing wreak havoc on marine biodiversity in
Indonesia.
• SRI LANKA
• A unique mountain in Sri Lanka, sacred to four of the world’s major religions, is a
beacon of hope for a country trying to rebuild itself. The annual pilgrimage to
Adams Peak attracts devotees from Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.
• BANGLADESH
• In Bangladesh hundreds die yearly in cyclone and monsoon flooding, and
neighbouring countries exacerbate the problem.
• SIERRA LEONE
• Enterprising blacksmiths and metal workers in war-torn Sierra Leone are converting weapons
of war into useful farm implements: Kalashnikovs become hoes and axeheads, rocket-
llaunchers transform into pickaxes, sickles and even school bells. One TANK provides a
year's worth of work for 5 blacksmiths: producing 3,000 items vital to equip a farming village
of 100 families. Sponsoring these activities is easy: Kalashnikov: £25, Rocket launcher: £55,
Small armoured vehicle: £250, Tank: £1000, 16 wheeler military vehicle: £2000
• MULTIPLE REGIONS
• Supplying water pumps for villages. 4 billion people, 3/4 of all people on Earth,
don’t have access to safe, clean, drinkable water. Although we take it for granted it
is a life or death concern for so many. Just £175 is enough to pay for and install a
sturdy water pump catering to the needs of 250 people.
• CONGO
• Indigenous peoples are firmly bound to their forest homes. As outsiders encroach
ever deeper into their lands they are quickly losing all of their ancestral knowledge
to the excesses of the newcomers. We visit the musically hypnotic Baka.
• Encountering the MBUTI and EFE.
• PHILIPPINES
• The descendants of Philippine’s first inhabitants adrift since the destruction of their
land by volcanoes.
• HAWAII
• Way finding is an ancient Tahitian art of star-based non-instrument navigation.
Hokulea is a replica of a traditional vessel. Captain and Master Navigator Mau
Piailug and a Hawaiian team set sail as we learn of this ancient art.
• TOGO
• An ancient and often demonized belief system VOODOO thrives in one of Africa’s
smallest but most diverse countries, Togo.
• DAKAR RALLY
• An alternative look at the race, an environmental and cultural encounter woven
together by the observations of six stories told by tribal people offering a local
perspective, revealing the fragile dynamics of the region and how the dust-covered
nomads, standing on the side of the race track, really feel about it.
• GLOBAL
• Coming alongside the race we meet with this extraordinary group of innovative
cars.
• REAT RACE 2008, New York to Paris, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the
“Greatest Auto Race”, one of the most important motor sports events of the 20th
century.
• BEIJING, CHINA
• One scenario we have envisaged is a hi-profile drive into the Beijing Olympics
using a hi-tech sports racing Hydrogen vehicle. BMW have already offered the 80
WAYS team the use of a H7 as support team for this aspect.
• PIMVILLE, SOWETO
• They grew up in a mud hut, two blonde kids regarded by their tribal peers as Zulus.
So when the new dawn broke over South Africa, the Alcock brothers took the
rainbow nation by storm, brokering land deals for 200,000 tribesmen, bringing the
party spirit back to Soweto.
• SENEGAL
• As Senegalese Government sell fishing rights to foreigners, locals resort to
extreme methods in their depleted waters... links to Philippines.
• REPUBLIC OF PALAU
• Palau, a tiny island state in the mid Pacific, is at the forefront of a worldwide movement to ban
fishing in key reefs to allow the return of prized species. A total of 1,200 km of reefs is
protected from fishing around the island, which is prized for its recreational diving. The island
started the Micronesian Challenge and many other islands in the South Pacific have joined
them in the fight to get their prized fish back.
• Tommy Remengesau Jr – the world most conservation-minded head of state.
• ALASKA, USA
• While commercial whaling is banned, natives from Alaska are permitted to hunt fixed
numbers of bowhead whales. Indigenous Arctic peoples depend on these whales for food and
cultural practices.
• Some bowheads may live around 200 years, making them the longest living mammals on
earth. The discovery of stone spearheads lodged in living whales indicates that some pre-date
the whaling era. Despite bowheads being the most-studied baleen whale, much remains a
mystery.
• GLOBAL
• Methane is a greenhouse gas. Each cow on the planet produces the equivalent of
140 two-litre bottles of the stuff each day! Cows contribute 20% of total methane
emissions. Scientists have developed a pill that dramatically decreases this figure.
Mundane, maybe, but a globally important rural story with a solution in sight.
• COLOMBIA (S.A)
• Second largest source of flower exports into the world market, after Holland. The
chances are that the last bunch of roses you received or sent included a Colombian
bloom… Child labour, toxic chemicals and serious environmental damage are
endemic. Human rights abuse is common place.
• QURNA, EGYPT
• For centuries, hundreds of families have lived in unexplored Pharaohs' tombs –
now they are being evicted so that many treasures can be unearthed. Is it
archaeological triumph or human tragedy?
• WORLD OCEANS
• The Global Ocean Sampling Expedition, carried out by a team of scientists aboard his research
yacht Sorcerer II. The aim is to sequence the DNA of micro-organisms in water samples
collected at intervals during a circumnavigation of the globe. This is the modern equivalent of
Victorian explorers reaching the interior of the African continent and returning with countless
bizarre beasts never encountered by western science. Less than 1% of the planet's microbes
can be grown in the lab and only a fraction have been studied in any detail.
• CONGO
• With almost no infrastructure to support the steady influx of people trying to eke
out a living in the frontier worlds of logging and mining, animals that were once
living deep in forest far from the dangers of human contact are now being
slaughtered at an alarming rate....the most tragic of which is our nearest animal
relative, the passive mountain gorillas who are being carted out of the forest on
logging trucks. We learn of the tragic slaughter first hand
• UGANDA
• Every evening, as many as 40,000 children in northern Uganda hike for miles from
their rural villages to shelters in town. These so-called night commuters are hiding
from the Lord’s Resistance Army, a radical, religious paramilitary group that seeks
to swell its ranks by abducting children while they sleep. If caught, their next
march will be as Uganda’s youngest soldiers.
• VRINDAVAN, INDIA
• When a Hindu woman is widowed, she faces rejection by society and is often cast
out by her family. Thousands seek sanctuary in the Holy City of Vrindavan, where
they live in poverty waiting for death
• BRAZIL
• The Cunha canal is one of the tributaries to the Guanabara bay, the centrepiece of
one of the world's most naturally beautiful cities, Rio De Janeiro; and it’s also
where sewage from the giant shantytown pours out into the Guanabara Bay.
• Pollution threatens city's natural beauty but the hopes are pinned on the city’s
newly-elected radical environment secretary.
• MUMBAI, INDIA
• Largest slum in Asia but also its most prosperous. A thriving business centre propelled by
thousands of micro-entrepreneurs who are turning around the discarded waste of Mumbai's
19m citizens. The new money through recycling has spawned a new slum gentry and created
upmarket bars, beauty parlours, clothing boutiques and the slum's first ATM. But Dharavi is
set to be demolished under a new scheme to transform one of India's most obvious eyesores.
Dharavi stands on just a square mile of land reckoned to be worth more than $10bn!
• NORILSK, RUSSIA
• The snow is black in Norilsk, and 16%of child deaths at the former Siberian slave
labour camp are caused by respiratory illnesses related to the city's mining
operations. Residents at the world's largest heavy metals smelting complex suffer a
horrifying range of illnesses including respiratory illnesses and lung cancer. Birth
defects are common.
• MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
• The gift of sight for someone in the third world: £27 pays for a simple operation
that restores the sight of cataract and trachoma sufferer. Restoring the sight of 100
people in the developing world costs just £1,750. There is no scale on which to
quantify what it means to each recipient
• SURAT, INDIA
• In the city of Surat, 150 miles north of Bombay, nearly a million people are
employed by the diamond industry. Many sleep on the factory floor. Seventy
percent of the world’s production is now concentrated here. They each work
12 hour days and earn $60 a month for their labour.
CELEBRITY CONTACT US
COLLABORATORS
GALLERY
&
CONTENT RESOURCES
Contact:
• Although the above presentation presents an array of fascinating stories there are
enormous resources available to us through the many target organisations with
whom we will be working: Conservation International, Royal Geographical
Society, The Eden Project, World Watch Institute and many more…
• To illustrate the enormous scope and scale this collaboration represents we present
the following map and chart of active WWF, EARTH WATCH and UNEP
projects.
CELEBRITY GALLERY
**click through presentation**
• Global Elder
• Champion of human rights
• She set up charity TZONE to help girls gain strength and self-
acceptance.
• Supports the United Nations World Food Program, that leads the
fight against hunger. It’s the United Nations program which
reached 113 million people in 80 countries in 2004
• She also supports the ASPCA, The American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• UNICEF Ambassador
• Supports UNICEF’s Unite Against AIDS Campaign
• Supports the Salvation Army that looked after him when he was
homeless growing up in NY
•FOCUS: Environment,
WWW.MIKHAILGORBACHEV.ORG/
humanitarian projects WWW.GORBY.RU/EN/DEFAULT.ASP
WWW.SARAHFERGUSON.ORG
•FOCUS: Children
WWW.SOS-USA.ORG
WWW.CHILDRENINCRISIS.ORG/UK
Contact: