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The ERA Video Streaming Platform | Geography | Ecosystems and Biomes

Tropical rainforests

04: Saving the Forest | Landmarks

04: Saving the Forest | Landmarks

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 1990 | 19'16''

Despite the destruction, there are ways to save the forest, by careful harvesting, protecting, learning, replanting, policing - and campaig...

03: Destroying the Forest | Landmarks

03: Destroying the Forest | Landmarks

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 1990 | 19'12''

By the next century, the rainforests of the world could have disappeared for ever, destroyed by outside influences and economic pressur...

02: People of the Forest | Landmarks

02: People of the Forest | Landmarks

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 1990 | 18'54''

People of the Forest looks at the Baka of the Cameroon & the Kayapo of South America & how their lives work in balance with the rainforest.

01: The Living Forest | Landmarks

01: The Living Forest | Landmarks

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 1990 | 19'14''

The Living Forest looks at all the animals & plants that live in the forest on the ground to the forest canopy, & shows how they live in ba...

S2E1: The Tropics | Spy in the Wild

S2E1: The Tropics | Spy in the Wild

Biodiversity and human impact | BBC One | 2020 | 58'03''

The spy creatures infiltrate a hippo pod, a nursery of red flying foxes and the secret world of pygmy forest elephants.

Brazil 2000: 4: Resources: Carajas | The Geography Programme

Brazil 2000: 4: Resources: Carajas | The Geography Programme

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 1996 | 20'11''

Programme looking at Carajas in the Amazon forest featuring an iron ore mine. The mine is tapping Brazil's natur...

6: Rainforests | Deep into the Wild

6: Rainforests | Deep into the Wild

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2002 | 29'12''

With deadly snakes, billions of bugs, flamboyant birdlife and tree topping monkeys, Nick gets to grips with the explosion of wildlife in ...

1: The Waimaha | Tribe with Bruce Parry

1: The Waimaha | Tribe with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2025 | 59'05''

Deep in the Amazon, Bruce Parry undergoes a brutal training regime to prepare his mind and body to take ayahuasca and understand how ...

1: Tropical Worlds | The Green Planet

1: Tropical Worlds | The Green Planet

Biology | BBC One | 2022 | 58'43''

Tropical rainforests are plant battlegrounds. New filming techniques allow us to enter the world of plants to see it from their perspec...

Saving the Rainforest | From Above

Saving the Rainforest | From Above

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC News | 2024 | 9'13''

See the incredible journey a group of scientists make to explore a once hidden forest in Mozambique. The team discovered new species that ...

S6E5: Datai Langkawi, Malaysia | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

S6E5: Datai Langkawi, Malaysia | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2024 | 58'59''

Rob and Monica travel to the Malaysian rainforest to work at the Datai Langkawi hotel, where monkeys r...

Chris Packham: In Search of the Lost Girl

Chris Packham: In Search of the Lost Girl

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2018 | 58'58''

Chris Packham returns to Sumatra to search for a girl from a nomadic tribe he photographed 20 years ago to discover what has happen...

Episode 5 | Expedition Borneo

Episode 5 | Expedition Borneo

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2007 | 29'08''

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo. A network of caverns never explored by h...

Episode 4 | Expedition Borneo

Episode 4 | Expedition Borneo

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2007 | 29'08''

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo. They find extraordinary cave paintings m...

Episode 3 | Expedition Borneo

Episode 3 | Expedition Borneo

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2007 | 29'04''

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo. One of the team is bitten by a deadly co...

Episode 2 | Expedition Borneo

Episode 2 | Expedition Borneo

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2007 | 28'59''

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo. The team begins searching for jungle ele...

Episode 1 | Expedition Borneo

Episode 1 | Expedition Borneo

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2007 | 29'10''

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo. The team search for the elusive clouded ...

1: Congo | Wilderness with Simon Reeve

1: Congo | Wilderness with Simon Reeve

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2024 | 58'42''

Simon Reeve battles his way across the Congo, braving thick jungle and tropical swamps in search of the people and the wildlife who ma...

S1E2: Mashpi Lodge, Ecuador | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

S1E2: Mashpi Lodge, Ecuador | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2017 | 59'06''

Giles Coren and Monica Galetti head to the Andean Cloud Forest of Ecuador to work at Mashpi Lodge, a $10-...

Waterworld | Jungle

Waterworld | Jungle

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2003 | 58'20''

Charlotte Uhlenbroek travels along the Amazon river, from its headwaters in the high Andes to enormous forested floodplains.

Underworld | Jungle

Underworld | Jungle

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2003 | 59'25''

Charlotte Uhlenbroek travels to the Congo rainforest to investigate the wildlife of the forest floor.

Canopyworld | Jungle

Canopyworld | Jungle

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2003 | 58'36''

Charlotte climbs high among the Borneo treetops in an attempt to reach the notoriously inaccessible rainforest canopy. Teeming with life at 200 feet up,...

S3E6: Penan | Tribe

S3E6: Penan | Tribe

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2007 | 59'16''

Explorer Bruce Parry treks into the jungles of Sarawak, Borneo, in search of the last nomadic Penan. The Penan are hunter-gatherers whose forest home is ...

S3E1: Matis | Tribe

S3E1: Matis | Tribe

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2007 | 58'47''

Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon rainforest to live with the Matis, a tribe once devastated by western disease who are determined to preserve t...

S1E6: Sanema | Tribe

S1E6: Sanema | Tribe

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2005 | 59'00''

The remote Sanema people of the Venezuelan Amazon inhabit a universe full of powerful spirits and ancestors. Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the tribe, ...

S1E3: Crocodile People of New Guinea | Tribes, Predators & Me

S1E3: Crocodile People of New Guinea | Tribes, Predators & Me

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'30''

Gordon Buchanan journeys up Papua New Guinea's Sepik River to meet the remarkable tribes who have learnt t...

S1E1: Anaconda People of the Amazon | Tribes, Predators & Me

S1E1: Anaconda People of the Amazon | Tribes, Predators & Me

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'47''

Gordon Buchanan joins a Waorani tribal family in Ecuador's Amazon jungle as they search for giant anacondas.

3: Amazon | Nature’s Microworlds

3: Amazon | Nature’s Microworlds

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Four | 2012 | 28'58''

Steve Backshall lifts the lid on an incredible world of intricate relationships and unexpected hardship in the Amazon rainforest, expl...

Episode 2 | Simon Reeve’s South America

Episode 2 | Simon Reeve’s South America

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2022 | 59'05''

Simon travels through Brazil, from the heart of the Amazon rainforest to the coast and the glamorous-but-troubled city of Rio d...

Battle for the Amazon | Amazon Specials

Battle for the Amazon | Amazon Specials

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2005 | 29'06''

What has happened to the Amazon rainforest since the 1980s? This report reveals that the battle for the Amazon is now fiercer than ever.

Episode 6 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 6 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'55''

Bruce Parry reaches the end of his Amazon adventure in Brazil's Para state where huge areas of forest are being cut down for cattle farming.

Episode 5 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 5 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'00''

Bruce Parry explores the Amazon rainforest. He meets the millionaires of Manaus, lives and works with illegal gold miners and sleeps in t...

Episode 4 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 4 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'58''

Bruce Parry reaches the halfway point of his epic journey in the vast nature reserve of Mamiraua, home to the Amazon's most iconic specie...

Episode 3 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 3 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'06''

Bruce Parry travels to a remote part of the Brazilian Amazon to explore what happens when the outside world makes contact. He visits the ...

Episode 2 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 2 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'07''

Bruce Parry voyages along the entire length of the Amazon. Continuing his trip, the adventurer wears a black dress for an extremely unusu...

Episode 1 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 1 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'10''

Bruce Parry begins an epic adventure in the Amazon. The first part of his journey takes him from the High Andes to the Ashaninka tribe.

S4E7: Borneo | Deadly 60

S4E7: Borneo | Deadly 60

Ecosystems and Biomes | CBBC | 2020 | 28'14''

Although we can't just stop using palm oil - farmers need to grow it to provide an income for their families and as a product it's highly efficient ...

4: Jungles – People of the Trees | Human Planet

4: Jungles – People of the Trees | Human Planet

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2011 | 58'58''

Series examining man's survival in extreme environments. A look at life in the rainforest, which requires great skill, ...

3: Latin America | Equator

3: Latin America | Equator

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2006 | 59'07''

Simon meets the Galapagos islands' unique wildlife, climbs an Ecuador volcano, crosses Colombia and ends his journey in Brazil.

2: Indonesia | Equator

2: Indonesia | Equator

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2006 | 59'06''

In Indonesia he encounters paradise islands undiscovered by tourists and an environment under threat.

2: South America | Equator from the Air

2: South America | Equator from the Air

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2020 | 59'20''

In South America, Gordon flies over the Amazon in search of illegal loggers, and in the Andes he meets conservationists searching for...

Episode 3 | I Bought a Rainforest

Episode 3 | I Bought a Rainforest

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'17''

Series following Charlie Hamilton James, who bought 100 acres of Peruvian rainforest. Charlie learns if you want to protect the rainforest ...

Episode 2 | I Bought a Rainforest

Episode 2 | I Bought a Rainforest

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'09''

Series following wildlife cameraman Charlie Hamilton James, who has bought 100 acres of Peruvian rainforest. Four months on, Charlie's gran...

I Bought a Rainforest

I Bought a Rainforest

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'16''

Series following wildlife cameraman Charlie Hamilton James, who has bought 100 acres of Peruvian rainforest. Charlie establishes camp and makes some un...

Episode 3 | Lost Land of the Volcano

Episode 3 | Lost Land of the Volcano

Biology | BBC One | 2009 | 58'11''

A team of scientists and film-makers explores the jungle wilderness of New Guinea.

Episode 2 | Lost Land of the Volcano

Episode 2 | Lost Land of the Volcano

Biology | BBC One | 2009 | 58'31''

A team of scientists and film-makers explores the jungle wilderness of New Guinea.

Lost Land of the Volcano

Lost Land of the Volcano

Biology | BBC One | 2009 | 58'32''

A team of scientists and film-makers explores the jungle wilderness of New Guinea.

Fungi | Planet Earth

Fungi | Planet Earth

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2006 | 3'17''

The high humidity of the rainforest creates the ideal environment for life built on decay.

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