[Ecoed] Re: Ecoed] Ecology in the movies

[bhagenbuch at hcc.mass.edu]

I'll echo Bullfrog Films as a great resource. I've been using their 
video "Buffalo War" to explore the controversy of the Yellowstone 
bison in my conservation biology class for years.

I'd also recommend "Burning Season: The Life of Chico Mendez" (HBO 
Films) about the Brazilian rubber tapper assassinated in the late 
1980s. While the film explores the contentiousness of tropical forest 
destruction from multiple stakeholders, the "ecologists" in the movie 
make an interesting angle for class discussion as well.

Brian E. Hagenbuch, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Holyoke Community College
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