Aranyam 2007

by Jay Mazoomdar

  “If the extinction of tigers is be tackled effectively, the traditional hunter is to be shown an alternative livelihood.”
Jay’s film shows the Moghiya hunters of MP and Rajasthan who hunt tigers for larger traders for measly sums. “It would be difficult for this trade to flourish in the absence of skilled hunters,” he adds. 

by Kalpana Subramanian

Freshwater turtles in the Gangetic river systems and their systematic poaching led Kalpana Subramanian to make her film Turtles in a Soup. The trade, she says, has moved on from simply shipping turtle meat to actually processing the more easily transportable ‘plastron’ (turtle cartilage) into chips thus making it more “invisible and difficult to nab”.

by P.Balan and R.Radha 

 “The Silenced Witness” analyses why despite having about 60 per cent of the world population of Asiatic and despite the animal being revered for centuries, the magnificent mammal is fighting for survival.

The story centres around crimes committed on Elephants in Kerala - both domesticated and wild.

by Vijay S Jodha

the subject of this film is the famed apple tree of Himachal radesh, growing in the Kullu valley. This short film shows how the warming of the mountains and the vanishing snowfall have led to progressive decline in and shifting of the state’s apple growing area, and the resulting shifts in the people’s fortunes. 

by Greenpeace International, Netherlands

Climate change is already harming people and ecosystems. Its reality can be seen in melting glaciers, disintegrating polar ice, thawing permafrost, extreme weather, dying coral reefs, rising sea levels, changing ecosystems and fatal heat waves.

by Gurmeet Sapal

 Crime against Leopards in the hills, shot not only by the professional poachers but also by common people.

by Rita Banerji

Earth Calling is an environment series that looks at ecological concerns in popular tourist destinations and meets people who are fighting the odds to save our environment.