Established in 2012 by a coalition of leading animal charities and NGOs, AnimalPledge.org is a scheme by which companies and individuals can learn about, and commit to reducing, their negative impact on animals as a result of their use in entertainment industry, as well as mitigating the potential repercussions of their productions on animals in the wild, thus aiding their conservation.
By making the pledge organisations and individuals in the Film and TV industry make a commitment never to use performing wild animals in future productions.
It is completely free to make the pledge and we hope that you will join us!
ARKive is the ultimate free online resource to the world’s endangered animals, plants and fungi.
Produced with the help of the world’s best filmmakers, photographers, conservationists and scientists, we share the wonders of nature and encourage environmental awareness through educational resources and interactive events and activities.
Black Leopard Wilderness Camp
Thaba Tholo Reserve
Nr Lydenburg,
Mpumalanga
1120
South Africa
African conservation campus providing conservation training and leopard research, together with Field Guide training in association with the Field Guide Association of South Africa.
The Brock Initiative
Dumpers Cottage, Dumpers Lane,
Chew Magna, Bristol BS40 8SS
United Kingdom
Richard Brock worked in the BBC NHU for 35 years, producing the highly successful Life on Earth and Living Planet series with David Attenborough, gaining international recognition as an accomplished producer. Concerned by the Corporations lack of willingness to address the real current state of the environment however, he left the BBC and started his own independent production company, Living Planet Productions. He then made over 100 films on a wide range of environmental topics, shown all over the world, and determined to make a difference, he decided to set up the Brock Initiative, to use his archive of footage, and to ask others to do the same, to create new films, not made for a general TV audience, but made for those who are really connected to the situation in hand.
"Showing the truth on some minority channel is not the answer. Showing it where it counts, is."
The Brock Initiative has successfully completed numerous projects in different countries. Aside from making a real difference in these areas the Brock Initiative hopes to encourage and assist others, both film-makers and those who can use film in their work, to do the same.
Community-based Biodiversity Conservation Films (CBCF)
1758, Kijabe Farm, Naivasha 20117, KENYA
CBCFproduce environmental films/documentaries, offer a minimum of two weeks film production training, community film showing, film distribution. We sell stock footage and stills. We are looking for conservation-themed films. We are working towards being conservation filmmaking agents in East Africa. We are also looking for collaborators and sponsors. We are happy to co-produce.
CBCFs Goals:
To train indigenous young conservationists in Kenya, Tanzania and the rest of
East Africa to make biodiversity conservation films for the sake of effective
environmental education.
To make these films in partnership with local communities about issues linked
to their local livelihoods.
To distribute these films among education organisations (NGO and government)
within East Africa and beyond.
To evaluate the effectiveness of digital films as a means of education and
capacity-building in schools, communities and countries where we exist.
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Les Augrès Manor
La Profonde Rue
Trinity JE3 5BP
Jersey
Channel Islands
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust strives to save the most threatened species in the most threatened places around the world.
Biodiversity is essential for human survival and our aim is to ensure we can persist alongside the myriad of plants and animals that inhabit our planet.
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an independent campaigning organisation committed to bringing about change that protects the natural world from environmental crime and abuse.
EIA produces hard-hitting campaign films on a wide range of environmental crimes, as well as bespoke training films for enforcement agencies.
It also has one of the world's largest archives of footage devoted to the illegal trade in wildlife products and other environmentally damaging commodities. The collection is data-based and is available on a professional basis to journalists, publishers and programme-makers.
All the funds raised from the sale of this archive help to fund future campaigns. The visual media you see on the website is indicative of what is available in the whole collection.
We are always prepared to listen to programme pitches from media professionals with a view to highlighting our work.
Our vision is a future where humanity respects, protects and celebrates the natural world for the benefit of all.
Environment Films 274 Queenstown Road
London
SW8 4LP
United Kingdom
Environment Films is an independent production company based in central London, specialising in sophisticated films, documentaries and commercials for organisations whose work and interests are connected to the natural world.
Environment Films produce media for television, the internet, DVD distribution and provide a non-profit service to charities.
"Using
The Power Of Film And Media To Conserve Our Natural World"
FFC
- Already Making A Difference
The mission
of Filmmakers for Conservation is to promote global conservation
through the making, broadcasting and distribution of films,
and to help conservation organisations and filmmakers worldwide
produce a greater number of better-informed and more effective
conservation films. It is often said that conservation films
don't make a difference - Filmmakers for Conservation dispels
that myth.
Frontier
50-52 Rivington Street
London EC2A 3QP
United Kingdom
Explore remote and spectacular landscapes, work with deprived and deserving communities, or campaign for wildlife care and conservation on a travel adventure you'll never forget.
The Great Apes Film Initiative (GAFI) uses the power of film and media to engage all those who can make a difference to endangered great apes. This involves getting films to Presidents, Ministers in government, national television audiences and many local communities, schools, universities, wildlife management centres, ...even Karaoke bars across Africa and SE Asia.
Since its inception six years ago GAFI has screened films to approximately 300 million people in 14 great ape range states and carries out monitoring programmes to check how effective its screening projects are being. GAFI gets its screenings out via 4x4 vehicles and river boats which hasnt been very cost effective or environmentally friendly - however we are now embarking upon the worlds first conservation pedal powered cinema systems screenings where we use a bicycle to travel from one village to another and screen the films usisng pure person power on the bike.
InspiritreeS CIC
iLab
Priory Business Park
Bedford
MK44 3RZ
United Kingdom
InspiritreeS aims to be the most positive, vibrant and dynamic force for trees in the world by creating a global community of people who are connected to trees and want to see millions more planted and cared for on this beautiful planet.
We want to get tree planting, and nurturing, fully integrated and incorporated into all land management plans and procedures everywhere, which will help to revive a productive woodland culture and all the associated countryside skills.
InspiritreeS will actively encourage everyone to recognise their close connection to and dependence on trees for their health and well-being, especially the quality of the air they breathe.
Everyone can donate trees at any time, and in any place.
Marine
Conservation Society
Unit 3, Wolf Business Park
Alton Road, Ross on Wye HR9 5NB UK
Marine Conservation Society (MCS), the UK charity that cares for our seas, shores and wildlife.
MCS is the voice for everyone who loves the sea.
We work to secure a future for our living seas, and to save our threatened sea life before it is lost forever.
Our wonderful seas, shores and wildlife are under threat.
Almost nowhere in UK seas is marine wildlife safe from harm. We need to establish vital marine protected areas where wildlife can recover and flourish.
Levels of beach litter have doubled over the last decade. MCS works to clear our seas of the rising tide of rubbish that is so dangerous to sea life, including seabirds, whales and dolphins.
88% of Europe’s fish stocks are overfished or depleted. Once common fish such as skate and cod are now rare.
MCS works to reduce the overfishing which is devastating the life in our seas, and promotes sustainable seafood alternatives.
Our work ensures that the sea’s rich wildlife can be restored, fish stocks grow more plentiful, and our beaches and seawater become cleaner.
Project Wild Thing
Green Lions Ltd
57 Jerningham Road
London SE14 5NH
United Kingdom
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds "nature's voice"
Head of RSPB Film Unit: Mark Percival
Assistant Producer: Robin Hill
Cameraperson: Toby Hough
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is a conservation organisation with over one million members. Producers of wildlife films since 1953, the RSPB Film Unit continues to create blue-chip wildlife and conservation programming today for event presentation, broadcast, DVD sales, online distribution and clips sales. Our aim is to showcase the RSPB’s most important conservation work and to capture the spectacle of the natural world with award-winning clarity- achieved by a commitment to the principles of ethical wildlife filmmaking. Credits include: Eagle Odyssey (ten awards incl. Wildscreen & Jackson Hole) Waterlands (nine awards incl. Japan Wildlife Film Festival)
The RSPB Film Unit is open to developing co-productions on the themes of saving nature, stopping species extinction, stopping climate change, and landscape restoration/re- creation. We periodically offer production internships (6-12 months) usually as camera or field assistant.
Scubazoo
PO BOX 15475
Kota Kinabalu
Sabah 88864
Malaysia
Scubazoo are committed to helping the environment through building awareness of the threats to our oceans and marine life. Through dramatic, inspirational, and sometimes disturbing images we hope that people will come to care more about our planet and think about the consequences of their action or inaction.
Our Contributions:
Scubazoo have provided free office space and support for Marine Conservation society staff in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia since 2008.
We give educational talks to schools, companies, and other organisations
We produce environmental educational films for Governmental organisations, charities and NGO’s such as WWF, SOS Rhino, ARCBC, IOSEA, SaBC and SEARRP
We are responsible divers and never intentionally harm or disturb marine life
A percentage of all sales of our coffee table book reef is donated to marine conservation charities. This book is available in 10 different languages and has sold in excess of 150,000 copies worldwide.
Our library of conservation footage has been used in countless TV broadcast on channels such as CNN, Animal Planet, Discovery and successful theatrical releases such as Sharkwater and The end of the line. We have published articles on conservation issues in magazines all over the world, utilising our large and ever expanding collection of conservation photos.
The protection and conservation of our Oceans will always be a driving force in everything Scubazoo do and wherever possible Scubazoo will aim to tell ‘the whole story’ of the marine world.
Please take a look at a selection of our Marine Conservation Videos here.
The Tank Bangers are a group of diving professionals that decided to start a band and produce unique music videos in order to draw attention to the destruction of our oceans.
United Conservationists
125 - 720 King St West,
Suite 445
Toronto
Ontario M5V 3S5
Canada
United Conservationists is a different kind of conservation group. We believe in you, in humanity, and the fact that we are all inherently good deep down inside. In fact, we've already proven it.
See, some of our founders made a little movie called Sharkwater. Soon NGOs started popping up and government policy started changing. All it took was information and a spark, and the world will never be the same.
But the problem is bigger now. Its not just animals and ecosystems that are in danger, now humanity is at stake, and we don‚t have much time.
We're counting on you to change the world, but you won‚t do it alone. We'll be bringing you allies, by packaging crucial information in groundbreaking entertainment to unite everyone as a force for change.
Imagine if everybody in the UK made just a few small changes in their garden to help our British wildlife.
Think of the giant patchwork of habitats that could be created, all the new homes that could be formed, and all the mouths that could be fed. And you can do as much or as little as you like!
Here at The Wildlife Garden Project, we are transforming an ordinary garden into a haven for wildlife. We will show you exactly how we did it through our film, which we are shooting over the course of the transformation, and our website at www.wildlifegardenproject.com.
Have a browse around: you'll find how to videos, tips for your wildlife garden, sneaky peeks of the film, and a forum where you can connect with other nature lovers.
So, no excuses, get those spades out and enjoy all those creatures that will make your new wildlife garden their new home!
The Wildlife Sound Recording Society was formed
in 1968, and now has over 250 members in Britain and throughout
the world. Its objects are to encourage the recording of wildlife
sounds, and to support projects which aim at furthering the
knowledge of natural history sounds, the techniques of recording
these sounds and other allied subjects. In addition to the
Annual General Meeting and Society's Spring Meeting, workshops
are held twice a year and other local meetings are held throughout
the country from time to time. The Society publishes a journal, Wildlife Sound, twice a year - and a Sound
Magazine in CD format of member's work, four times
a year. The Society welcomes complete beginners as well as
experienced recordists.
Please
contact the Membership Secretary for further
details about joining the Society at enquires@wildlife-sound.org
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Slimbridge
Gloucestershire GL2 7BT United Kingdom
Wildscreen is a UK-based charity which promotes the conservation of nature through wildlife imagery.
Working closely with the international wildlife and environmental media industry, we collect, curate and share the world’s best wildlife imagery to encourage a greater appreciation of the natural world through a series of inspiration initiatives: Wildscreen Festival, WildPhotos and ARKive.
Established in 1982, we have a network of donors, supporters and friends across the globe and are proud to have HRH Prince Philip and Sir David Attenborough as patrons.
