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Thomas Lovejoy

Born August 22, 1941 · Manhattan, New York, U.S.

Died December 25, 2021 · aged 80

Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III was an American ecologist who was President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and a university professor in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University. Lovejoy was the World Bank's chief biodiversity advisor and the lead specialist for environment for Latin America and the Caribbean as well …

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Soul of the OceanSoul of the Ocean · 2022
Soul of the Ocean
2.02022
MovieDocumentary
The undersea world has often been depicted as a dangerous place filled with lethal predators. A world where sharks are mindless eating machines. A world where the only relationship between species is that big fish eat little fish. Of course, stories of sensational danger and violent predation are seductive to wildlife film audiences. But is that what the ocean is really like?
Die 2050er - Everything will changeDie 2050er - Everything will change · 2022
Die 2050er - Everything will change
6.32022
MovieDramaScience Fiction
In a dystopian 2054, three young rebels go on a journey to find traces of the long lost beauty of nature, hoping to discover what happened to their planet.
Pumas: Legends of the Ice MountainsPumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains · 2021
Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains
8.52021
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
Travel to the ice mountains of Chile to discover the secrets of the puma (aka panther, mountain lion and cougar) the area's largest predator. Discover how this elusive cat survives and follow the dramatic fate of a puma and her cubs.
River of GoldRiver of Gold · 2016
River of Gold
2016
MovieDocumentary
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru's Amazon rainforest to uncover the savage unraveling of pristine jungle. What will be the fate of this critical region of priceless biodiversity as these extraordinarily beautiful forests are turned into a hellish wasteland?
Frogs: The Thin Green LineFrogs: The Thin Green Line · 2009
Frogs: The Thin Green Line
6.02009
MovieDocumentaryFamily
An examination of the extinction threat faced by frogs, which have hopped on Earth for some 250 million years and are a crucial cog in the ecosystem. Scientists believe they've pinpointed a cause for the loss of many of the amphibians: the chytrid fungus, which flourishes in high altitudes. Unfortunately, they don't know how to combat it. Included: an isolated forest in Panama that has yet to be touched by the fungus, thus enabling frogs to live and thrive as they have for eons.
The HimalayasThe Himalayas · 2011
The Himalayas
8.02011
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
The highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayan range is far reaching, spanning thousands of miles, and holds within it an exceptionally diverse ecology. Coniferous and subtropical forests, wetlands, and montane grasslands are as much a part of this world as the inhospitable, frozen mountaintops that tower above. The word Himalaya is Sanskrit for abode of snow, fitting for a stretch of land that houses the world’s largest non polar ice masses. Extensive glacial networks feed Asia's major rivers including the Ganges, Indus, and Brahmaputra. More than a billion people rely on these glacier-fed water sources for drinking water and agriculture. The Himalayas are not only a remarkable expanse of natural beauty. They're also crucial for our survival.
Siberian Tiger QuestSiberian Tiger Quest · 2012
Siberian Tiger Quest
2012
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
Embark with conservation ecologist Chris Morgan on a great challenge: to find and film the Siberian tiger.
The Grizzlies of SiberiaThe Grizzlies of Siberia · 1999
The Grizzlies of Siberia
1999
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
Naturalists Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns film recently discovered grizzlies on Siberia's Kamchatka peninsula.

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The HimalayasThe Himalayas · 2011
The Himalayas
8.02011
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
The highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayan range is far reaching, spanning thousands of miles, and holds within it an exceptionally diverse ecology. Coniferous and subtropical forests, wetlands, and montane grasslands are as much a part of this world as the inhospitable, frozen mountaintops that tower above. The word Himalaya is Sanskrit for abode of snow, fitting for a stretch of land that houses the world’s largest non polar ice masses. Extensive glacial networks feed Asia's major rivers including the Ganges, Indus, and Brahmaputra. More than a billion people rely on these glacier-fed water sources for drinking water and agriculture. The Himalayas are not only a remarkable expanse of natural beauty. They're also crucial for our survival.

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Nature: Great Zebra ExodusNature: Great Zebra Exodus · 2013
Nature: Great Zebra Exodus
5.02013
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
Each year, far from human eyes, a remote expanse of Botswana's Makgadikgadi salt pans hosts one of Africa's last great spectacles when thousands of striped nomads wander the breathtakingly beautiful but barren landscape. It is only by the grace of isolated summer rains that the zebras can survive here at all. Family groups gather together to follow the rains, driven by a constant search for better grazing on islands of grass that dot the pans. Meerkat families watch the zebras come and go, and families of lions wait for them along their grueling trek, hoping for a chance to bring one down. Their journey is one that is sometimes limited by the fragility of new life, but always made possible by the strong family ties that help animals survive in one of Africa's most surreal landscapes. It's a tale of loyalty and sacrifice, of home and exile, of death and new life, in southern Africa's largest zebra population.

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