Dear FFC,          

I am working as a lecturer in zoology in India and we run a wildlife club in our department in which we show wildlife movies to our students every Saturday. Recently new topics related to primate behaviour were introduced to our school curriculum syllabus. So we would really like to be able to show our students real behaviour of primates in the club. I was hoping either your members or non-members might be able to send us some films? If anyone has some films please could you send them on either CD or DVD.

ZSL/WCS Conservation Challenges for the 21^st Century series:

SAVING AFRICA’S ATHLETES: CONSERVING CHEETAH AND WILD DOGS

Dear All,

Please find attached details of the first event in the new ZSL/WCS Conservation Challenges for the 21^st Century series which will be held at ZSL on Tuesday 28 October 2008.

 “Saving Africa’s Athletes: conserving cheetahs and wild dogs” will give an insight into the practical fieldwork of ZSL and WCS conservationists Rosie Woodroffe, Maurus Msuha and Sarah Durant.

In Friends of the Earth's one-minute film competition this year, we asked filmmakers 'Which bit of the Earth are you a friend of?' and got goose bumps from the groovy entries we received.

East European Forum is a unique meeting of East European documentary filmmakers and significant European commissioning editors where the filmmakers and their independent producers offer their creative projects for co-production, pre-sale and acquisistion. The Forum is organized by the Institute of Documentary Film in co-operation with the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival.

AU’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking and Filmmakers for Conservation Present: The 4th Annual Fall Film Series. Hosted by Chris Palmer and Justine Schmidt

By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor, The Independent, UK. 11 September 2008

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.

Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a 'lawful excuse' to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kentto prevent even greater damage caused by climate change. The defence of 'lawful excuse' under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage to be caused to property to prevent even greater damage – such as breaking down the door of a burning house to tackle a fire.