Slash & Burn | Part 3: Problems that occur with burn practices
This is one of a series of five short films that contribute to a UK-Brazil research initiative, “Human dimensions of wildfires: Linking research and environmental education to reduce Amazonian wildfires”. Wildfires have increased dramatically in Amazonia due to agricultural expansion and severe droughts. Forest fires threaten biodiversity and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing wildfires is essential to safeguard the future of the Amazon forest and mitigate climate change by reducing carbon emissions. This research project aims to reduce the prevalence of Amazonian wildfires by linking social and natural sciences with environmental education and capacity building. Funded by the Darwin Initiative and INCT-MPEG (Museu Goeldi, Brazil), and executed by Lancaster University (UK). Produced/directed by Tania Cypriano (Viva! Films) in association with Luke Parry and Jos Barlow (both Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University).
FULL CREDITS:
Directed by Tania Cypriano
Executive producers: Luke Parry and Jos Barlow
Co-produced by Viva! Pictures
Script: Leslie Clark & Tania Cypriano
Script editing: Jos Barlow, Luke Parry, Juliana Silveira
Camera, sound and editing: Tania Cypriano
Additional camera: Bira Cabral Monteiro
Aerial footage: courtesy of Greenpeace
Production coordinators: Luke Parry, Heloisa Correa
Production assistance: Waldir dos Santos Silva, Martina Sonksen
Featuring: Adsonede Noguiera do Nascimento; Chico Malta; Danicley Saraiva de Aguiar; Daniel Moraes da Silva; Eduardo Pinheiro Rodrigues; Francisco Revelo Oliveira; Isvaldo Ferreira de Sousa; Marcos Augusto Mourer; Nelson Ferreira do Nascimento; Ronam Moura de Almeida; Wagner Cléssio da Silva Rodrigues
With special thanks to:
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom: Alan Blackburn; Rachel Carmenta; Toby A. Gardner; Saskia Vermeylen
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil: Amanda Estefânia, Ima C. G. Vieira; Karoline Gonçalves
Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Brazil: Joice N. Ferreia
Universidade de São Paulo: Thiago Fonseca Morello
Curtis Mitchell; Daniel Moraes da Silva; Laurimar Leal; Lilian Rebellato; Rob Langhammer
Music: Mestre Verequete; Chico Malta; Juarez Moreira; Urbano Medeiros
Slash and Burn. Copyright: Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Post Series: Brazil
- 1.Brazil drought linked to Amazon deforestation
- 2.Beached Whale
- 3.Fruits of the Forest
- 4.Inside Rio’s favelas, the city’s neglected neighbourhoods
- 5.Slash & Burn | Part 1: Why Amazonian farmers use fire
- 6.Slash & Burn | Part 2: How Amazonian farmers manage fire
- 7.Slash & Burn | Part 3: Problems that occur with burn practices
- 8.Slash & Burn | Part 4: Alternatives to present practices
- 9.Slash & Burn | Part 5: How can things change?
- 10.How Brazil is halting deforestation in the Amazon
- 11.Environment vs Development | Amazon: Truth and Myth | BBC
- 12.Investigating Deforestation of the Amazon | Ross Kemp Extreme World
- 13.Brazil: Slaves To Fashion – Latin America Investigates
- 14.The fight for Brazil’s rainforest
- 15.Illegal Loggers: The Tribe Waging War in the Amazon
- 16.How Do You Plant a Rainforest?
- 17.Hold the Line Episode 1: Is it worth killing an ecosystem for the sake of development?
- 18.Hold the Line Episode 2: Who benefits from this so-called development?
- 19.Hold the Line Episode 3: What future will we have if our natural resources are gone?
- 20.Amazon rainforest fires could devastate the fight against climate change
- 21.Drone footage reveals aftermath of Amazon fires
- 22.Amazon fires: the tribes fighting to save their dying rainforest
- 23.Amazon rainforest indigenous people in fight for survival- BBC News
- 24.Brazil’s indigenous population fights back | DW Documentary (Environment documentary)
- 25.Amazon fires create respiratory issues for people of Brazil l ABC News
- 26.Amazon forest fire: What it tells us about deforestation
- 27.Hotspots: Surge in deforestation in Amazon rainforest
- 28.Deforestation creating climate issues for the Amazon rainforest
- 29.Bolsonaro blames Amazon rainforest wildfires on green groups | DW News
- 30.Special report: The Amazon rainforest ablaze
- 31.How One Rich American Is Helping to Burn the Amazon for Profit | Opinions | NowThis
- 32.Why Is the Amazon Burning, and What’s Next? | The New Yorker
- 33.Amazon fire ban – BBC News
- 34.Amazon fires: burning continues despite ban
- 35.Amazon rainforest fires could have global implications | 7.30
- 36.Amazon wildfires an international crisis | The Drum
- 37.Meet the Ranchers Who Claim the Brazilian Amazon is Theirs to Burn | The Dispatch
- 38.The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is burning. Who started the fires? | The Fact Checker
- 39.Fires rage across Amazon rainforest at record pace
- 40.Why is the Amazon burning? | CNBC Explains
- 41.Firefighter Rescues Baby Bird From Bolivian Wildfires
- 42.Populism and the pandemic: The great divide in Brazil
- 43.Bolsonaro won’t help with coronavirus, so Brazil’s favelas are helping themselves
- 44.Brazil’s Bolsonaro: Turning COVID-19 denial into media spectacle | The Listening Post (Full)
- 45.Why has Brazil been so badly hit by coronavirus?