Rwanda, Back to the Garden
Earth Report
Can we reverse the damage of desertification and recreate lost ecosystems?
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REDD Alert
Earth Report
Examining the pilot schemes which aim to make living tropical forests more profitable intact, than if they are cut down.
Rising Tides
Earth Report
How 'biosphere reserves', zoned areas of landscape and ecosystem, can help us understand environmental change.
Race To Save The Albatross
Earth Report
Thousands of albatross are killed by long-line fishing every week. Earth Report investigates the future of these iconic seabirds, and the inexpensive fishing methods that can halt their destruction.
Remaking Shangri-La
In this remote areas of northern Pakistan, unnoticed by the global media, a cultural and environmental revival is underway.
Rabi
Developing Stories
A modern day fable African fable from Burkina Faso which explores the relationships between a boy and his pet tortoise and his own community. (1992)
Rich Pickings
Exposes the lucrative trade in endangered wildlife in Brazil.
Radioactive and Reeling
Earth Report follows the setting up of assistance strategies in Belarus, victim of most of the contamination from the Chernobyl disaster.
Ransom for the Forest
Earth Report visits the Amazon to find out more about the issue which stalled the international climate negotiations in the Hague - carbon sequestration.
Race to Save the Sky
The film looks at the massive international effort to end the threat from ozone-depleting chemicals. However, unless steps are taken to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, the endeavor may come to nothing. (1999)
Rescue
This Earth Report follows the efforts of one of the most successful rescue attempts ever, launched by WWF and the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
Reservoir Raiders
In Palestine 'land for peace' has a hollow ring to it unless water supplies are secured. This film records the destruction of a Palestinian farmer's rainwater collection tank by an Israeli army detachment. (1999)
River of Memory
This episode of Earth Report follows the campaign of the Himba people and their cheif, Kapika, to prevent the Namibian government constructing a dam which would irrevocably change their way of life.
Rubbish from the Information Superhighway
Looks at the 'toxic timebomb' of electronic waste. (1998)
Running on Empty
Life on the Edge (series 6)
Highlights the problems of two young mothers living in two very different societies - Wales in the UK, and rural northern Ethiopia..
Reaching Out to the Grass Roots
Life (series 4)
Looks at two very different approaches to improving the lives of poor people - one through education in Bangladesh, the other through ‘community-driven development’ in Indonesia.
Returning Dreams
Life (series 4)
Life returns to Sierra Leone and Liberia, to assess the fate of children caught up in the recent civil war.
Return to Srebrenica
Life (series 4)
The story of the rebuilding of Srebrenica in Bosnia, ten years after the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
Roma Rights
Life (series 4)
Roma communities in Europe have been subjected to centuries of persecution and racism. 'Roma Rights' looks at the hard living conditions but it also examines the richness and energy of Roma culture, especially the music.
Rights of Passage
Beijing Features
Diane Best’s award-winning film tells the stories of four teenage girls coming-of-age in four very different communities - and the personal cost of this transition to adulthood for each of them. (1994)