Amazonia’s Flying Rivers

No Forest No Water


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The Amazon rainforest is not only the earth's green lung (absorbing and storing carbon dioxide from the air and converting it to oxygen) it is also its air conditioner: intact forests suck in rain clouds from the Atlantic and evaporate water. In this way they cool the earth. Without forest, no water: if more and more forest disappears, this phenomenon of 'flying rivers' acting like a gigantic water pump can no longer exist. Scientists, politicians and environmental activists explain the fragile balance. Agroforestry methods can help preserve the forest - and manage it sustainably.

Versão portuguesa: 
https://youtu.be/poKi_AylbNo
https://vimeo.com/279543288


Protagonists

Antonio Donato Nobre
José Sarney Filho
Stefan Wolff
Christoph Rauh
Alberto Setzer
Alessandro Luciola Molon
André Lima
Mauricio Ludovice
Cristiane Mazzetti
Paulo Cunha
Paulo Enrique Pereira
Andrew Miccolis
Ricardo Lopes
José Antonio Marengo

Credits

camera
Volker Tittel
Holger Fleig
Jürgen Christa
Silvio Reichenbach
Rafael Dourado Morbeck

drone
Holger Fleig

research and production management
Michael Schucht
Thomas Hagenbrock

editing
Carolle Alain

animations
Jamie Goodenough

sound
Janio Edwards
Guilherme Negrão

music
Rainer Kühn

sound mixing
Ralph Bienzeisler

archive recordings
Globo TV
Greenpeace Brasil
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Claire Andreae
INPE, Agência FAPESP

written and directed by
Bettina Ehrhardt