Africa’s Green Heart. A personal journey through Africa’s great Equatorial Rainforests.
The film clips you can view here are short examples of material filmed in late 2008 near Odzala National Park in the northwest of Congo Brazzaville. The gorillas were filmed at a location called Ebobobo. Steve Taylor is presently editing a documentary film entitled “Africa’s Green Heart – A personal journey Through Africa’s great Equatorial Rainforests”. His work is supported by the YoG, Conservation International and the Ape Alliance.
The essential message of the film about the Congo Basin and its diverse and rich ecosystem is to encourage Africans themselves to see their region as an essential component in the wellbeing of mankind and global climate stability, creating awareness of the necessity to coexist with our planet’s fragile biodiversity. Africans are the guardians of this region and need to lead in the conservation and the protection of its wealth and ecological functions.
Steve Taylor, besides recording the area’s unique and endangered wildlife, also met with and listened to the people of this region. Their views and input are of the utmost importance in helping to conserve the vast tracts of equatorial rain forests. Without their support and understanding conservation within this region will not succeed. Steve Taylor began his filming in Sierra Leone as a way of showcasing what happens when nations are subjected to resource conflicts and the long-term aftermath of losing ninety five per cent of the nation’s forests.
We will inform on the progress of his project. For now, you can view several clips of Eastern Lowland Gorillas and Western Lowland Gorillas.
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