Biodiversity
– A Chance For Salvation
Director: Michael Tzyganov
Year: 1995
Genre: Documentary
Region: Russia
Duration: 30'
Language: English
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Biodiversity Director: Michael Tzyganov Year: 1995
Genre: Documentary
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Over the last 30 years Michael Tzyganov's film claims, more than a million species of plants and animals have become extinct. Biodiversity: A Chance for Salvation is an emotional treatment of a now familiar issue: the interdependence of all species - including human beings. With man at the top of a complex food chain, the film provides a timely warning that it is all too easy to overlook our economic interest in keeping the complex web of life intact and ignore our dependence on plants and animals for food, shelter, medicine, industry and technology, and highlights what should be done to conserve them. One example is the Rosy Periwinkle which contains a compound used in the treatment of childhood leukaemia, and occurs only in the forests of Madagascar. But like so many other species-rich habitats in the tropics, are fast disappearing. |
