Saving the Atlantic Rainforest - with Bill Oddie

How many people remember Bill Oddie from the biggest comedy hit of the 70s - the Goodies? Since then he has become one of the UK's favourite wildlife presenters regularly fronting Springwatch and Autumnwatch. This video shows Bill visiting the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil in 2010.


Bill visited the Reserva Ecológica de Guapi Assu (REGUA) as part of the preparation for the World Land Trust’s exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2010. He was able to see first hand what the Trust’s partner organisation REGUA has achieved in the past few years, in particular the restoration of rainforests and wetlands.

We've somehow managed to fight the urge to post a clip of Bill being taught to play guitar by Dire Straights legend Mark Knopfler for the BBC programme Play it Again.

GREEN TEAM

Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and John C Reilly entertain with their own unique tips on how to save the environment - GREEN TEAM...

Now we think that every business would benefit greatly if they listened to Ferrell and co's Green Team message, though at present we are not 100% convinced whether listening would actually help save the environment, but... 

Introducing our new Ibex Earth Blogger Site...

The Ibex Earth Blogger Site is changing - We will now be using this site as an area where we will be uploading videos and news from our Environmental & Conservation Partners, together with some of the more entertaining environmental videos that promote conservation and the ongoing protection of the planet's biodiversity.

We are all for making environmental issues more interesting and entertaining, which is why we start the first new blog with a clip from the fantastic Conservation International who use Harrison Ford in an interesting way to promote the preservation of the planet's rainforests, which involves chest hair and wax strips...bet he didn't get that on the set of Indiana Jones...

Harrison Ford is one of the more proactive celebrities in terms of raising environmental awareness and if only more would get involved and wax all their chest hair for the cause!

The Lost World Project - Sunrise on Roraima



One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen - a sunrise over Mount Roraima. Will do a full update very soon but tickets for the premiere are now available at http://www.lostworld.eventbrite.com/

Update on The Lost World Project

It has been an extremely busy two-three months on The Lost World Project, which would explain our complete lack of producing any new blogs over that period. We currently have 18 people in Venezuela climbing down from Mount Roraima's summit, and will be sending another 18 people to visit the area that inspired Disney Pixar to make their animated blockbuster 'UP'.

The reason we are doing this is in order to raise the final amount needed to complete the final scenes and produce The Lost World Film - the culmination of two years conservation work to protect the long-term future of Mount Roraima and the Guiana Highlands. We will look to use the film as a case study for global conservation projects, and highlight the problems associated with illegal goldmining, bauxite mining, unsustainable tourism and the introduction of foreign animal species.

We are really looking forward to letting you all know more information about the contents of the film and the narrator that we have lined up for the final project - but we need to keep quite a bit of it back as a surprise for the Premiere of The Lost World Film at the Royal Geographical Society on 30th June (ticket information will follow soon). However, we can use this blog to reveal that we have secured a world exclusive...

The family of Jimmy Angel, the man who discovered the legendary Angel Falls, has very kindly provided us with footage of Jimmy Angel discovery the world's tallest waterfall. The footage is in black and white and is absolutely amazing - at the start of the project we could never have imagined getting such fantastic footage. We will hopefully be able to start publishing a few videos in the next blog, but I hope that you will be blown away by what we believe to be some of the most incredible footage ever seen in a natural history documentary!