6 x 30 series for BBC. This series and Radio Gibbon feature Chanee and his work in Indonesia. It will be shown around the world in 2010.
In Borneo there is a radio station with a very distinctive new sound. Chanee is a young French zookeeper, turned DJ. Chanee has a passion for music and animals. He knows Borneo’s gibbons – the magical singing apes of the forest – are in danger of extinction. His answer? With the help of a famous French actress - Muriel Robin he created a gibbon sanctuary and uses the airwaves to publicise his mission.
A film by Mike Birkhead Associates, for the BBC2 series NATURAL WORLD, about the man behind Borneo’s favourite radio station and how it is helping to rescue, pair up and rehabilitate the singing stars of the primate family: gibbons.
IPPL's Adopt a Gibbon Scheme
"Non-human primates are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. From the tiny pygmy mouse lemur to the huge mountain gorilla, IPPL is the only organisation in the world working on behalf of ALL of these unique—and uniquely vulnerable—species. Please help us to tackle the problems facing our primate cousins." Click here for more info.
This is the world of Echo, Africa’s most famous elephant, and her family. Amboseli in Southern Kenya is home to 1500 wild elephants. 58 families visit the National Park, free to come and go. Here, for nearly 40 years Echo has led her daughters and their young through times of feast and famine, poachers and predators.
In the Natural History Museum's Environment Award judges observed that "the large number of entries in this newly created category clearly reflects the growing importance of environmental issues in our world and in the media,where the topic has graduated from the fringe position it held in the not so distant past to a position of prominence. We saw an extraordinary range of subjects and styles, from major series to student films, which both inspired us and made selection difficult."
Nominated for 'Protection of Species' Award, 'Best Screenplay,' and 'Best Soundtrack,' at the Festival International du Film Animalier (FIFA).
