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!

Big Cat Conservation is a voluntary non-profit organization in the UK working in collaboration with registered Wildlife Rescue Shelters and Charities in the UK and overseas.

BCC raises awareness, funds and sponsors to support big cat projects and endangered wildlife through Talks, Presentations, Events and even Children's Parties.

BCC was set up by International Entertainer and Conservationist Shelley Lozano who has direct contact and involvement with other wildlife charities she supports and the projects involved.

BCC raises funds to help endangered and rescued big cats and wildlife to help with rescue, rehabilitation or (where possible), release back to the wild.

The Brock Initiative

"making films that WILL make a difference"

"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.

The British Wildlife Photography Awards were established to recognise the talents of wildlife photographers of all nationalities practising in Britain, whilst at the same time highlighting the great wealth and diversity of Britain's natural history. The driving motivation to set up the Awards evolved through the nation's growing awareness of the local environment and the need for its protection.

Now in its fifth year, this highly acclaimed and unique wildlife photography competition has captivated the nation with outstanding and beautiful imagery. It is a celebration of British wildlife as well as a showcase for nature photographers, both amateur and professional.

With twelve separate categories the subject matter covers everything from marine life and animal behaviour to creepy crawlies and urban wildlife.

Wildlife in HD is a special new Award for HD Video and will be awarded to the most inspirational and dynamic film, which clearly illustrates the unique power of moving images as a medium for capturing British Wildlife.

The 2013 winners were announced in September 2013.

2012 HD Video winners
2013 HD Video winners – See the Feature Pages: BWPA 2013 Winners Announced! & Highly Commended Films at the BWPAwards!

The California Academy of Sciences is a renowned scientific and educational institution dedicated to exploring and explaining the natural world and addressing the challenge of sustainability.

Based in San Francisco, it is the only place on the planet with an aquarium, planetarium, natural history museum, and four-story rainforest — all under one living roof.

This unique combination allows visitors to explore the depths of a Philippine coral reef, climb into the canopy of a Costa Rican rainforest, and fly to the outer reaches of the Universe in a single day.

CEEweb for Biodiversity is a network of non-governmental organizations in the Central and Eastern European region.

Our mission is the conservation of biodiversity through the promotion of sustainable development.

CEEweb for Biodiversity has been organising the Green-Go Short Film Contest since 2011. With five years in a row of different green topics and more than 300 shorts received world-wide, with the 6th edition we now target people to send short films on natural solutions to climate change, sustainable farming and benefits of nature. For more information please visit www.greengofest.eu.

If you have any questions, please make sure that you search for it first in the FAQs. In case you have not found it, please contact Olja Radlovic on the following email address: contest@greengofest.eu

CBCF produce 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.

We are very excited to announce that we will be running our second edition of Good Natured: film festival on the 29th of May at 8 pm in the amazing Oxford University Natural History Museum as part of the Oxford Festival of Nature! Visit: conservationoptimism.org/film-festival-2020

The evening will kick off with a panel discussion between our judges around the importance of film making to raise awareness of conservation issues. We will then screen a diversity of short movies belonging to the following categories:

• People & Nature: Communities, Heroes & Wellbeing
• Conservation Works: Learning from Success & Failure
• Animation
• Student film

Submissions for short films are currenly open and will close on March 15th so don’t miss your chance!

Submit here: filmfreeway.com/
GoodNaturedAConservationOptimismFilmFestival

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 website www.ecotravelguide.eu was founded by Michael Cowton in 2013.

Michael, an outdoors writer, editor and photographer, has a passion for nature-based travel and wildlife.

A member of the International Travel Writers Alliance and The International Ecotourism Society (TIES), Michael is a former editor of EcoTravel, Outdoor Pursuits, Camping, Lakeland Walker and Which Motorcaravan magazines, and national newspaper journalist.

He says: "With an increasing awareness of globally responsible principles in our everyday lives, the public is clearly keen to adopt these values through their choice of holiday destinations. That is harnessed with the growing understanding that the survival of habitats and species is mostly in local people's hands, and that they need to be able to derive real benefits from their environments if they are to be conserved. With ecotourism increasingly being applied to all tourism that has tangible benefits for local people and the environment, the website aims to bring to the forefront these unusual, alternative and authentic experiences grounded in culture, nature and wildlife, and rooted in local knowledge."

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 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.

Our mission is to educate the next generation of natural historians and conservationists in topics related to rainforest ecology, and to provide biologists with research opportunities at our field sites in Peru and India.

In addition to field courses in Tropical Biology and Primatology, as well as extended research assistantships, we also offer this training in the Amazon for filmmakers and photographers, which focuses on documentary video production, field ethics, and camera technique.

We are offering a Wildlife Cinematography course taught in the Peruvian Amazon by Emmy winner Robin Cox (BBC Earth/Natural History Unit) with Keshav Sishta (Blackbird Productions) and guided by two experienced tropical biologists.

This summer's workshop runs from August 7th-17th, 2015, and offers opportunities to film/photograph a wide range of wildlife in a region with 500+ species of birds, 11 primate species, snakes, caiman, turtles, insects, and much more. Enrollment deadline is July 20th.

Filmmakers for Conservation

"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

Phone: +44 (0)20 7613 2422

Email: info@frontier.ac.uk

Website: www.frontier.ac.uk

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.

Frontier offers opportunities to volunteer abroad as well as the chance to gain valuable qualifications such as PADI, TEFL, BTEC, CoPE and FGASA.

Frontier’s volunteer projects in Africa and around the world offer opportunities to volunteer on marine conservation and wildlife conservation projects that have a real and sustainable benefit to the habitats and species involved.

Check out Into The Wild – The Gap Year Blog from Frontier...

Great Apes Film Initiative
3 Westfield Cottages, Westfield,
Medmenham, Marlow, Bucks SL7 2HQ
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)7770 577549

Email: info@gafi4apes.org

Website: www.gafi4apes.org

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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.

Greenpeace International

Amsterdam 1058 NB
The Netherlands

Phone: +31 646 197 322

Email: maarten.van.rouveroy@greenpeace.org

Website: www.greenpeace.org

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Greenpeace International has an inhouse production team of four.

Its members produce, edit and shoot video content for the environmental organisation.

The GPI video desk also works with a number of freelance videographers / editors and production companies.

Help the Bears
Paris
France

Contact: Patrick Rouxel

Phone: +62 856 7285 056

Email: helpthebears@gmail.com

Website: help3sunbears.blogspot.com

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HELP THE BEARS is a newly created non profit organization registered in France with the purpose of helping captive sun bears in Indonesia to a better life.

The very first mission that HELP THE BEARS has set itself, is to create a large forest enclosure for 3 captive sun bears Desi, Kevin and Hilda, in collaboration with OFI, the Orangutan Foundation International.

Non profit organization dedicated to protecting animals in the wild and in captivity.

IFAW rescues and protects animals around the world.

Our film team captures some of these rare moments and brings them to you via documentaries, shorts and other media.

Life on TERRA is the award-winning science and natural history podcast series that explores the natural connections that propel life on Earth.

Overseen by graduate students in the MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program at Montana State University, TERRA distributes independently produced science, nature, and environmental films.

We are proud to bring you these unique stories from around the globe that celebrate the wonders of the natural world

Magic Touch Films is an internationally renowned, established production service company based in Swakopmund, Namibia and is the newest acquisition of the IMWE Namibia Holdings group.

Magic Touch Films facilitates Adventure, Science, Wildlife, Humanitarian, Historical, Survival Documentaries and Reality Entertainment, throughout Namibia and neighbouring countries. With our expertise and knowhow, we are able to facilitate any size production, whether it is a small two man documentary crew or a large reality television production.

We are energetic, ambitious and constantly evolving to give our clients great value for money and always deliver on time. We are passionate about our client’s subjects and our country. Our natural driven boldness will capture the imagination of any Reality TV and Documentary Producer or Broadcaster.

With clients from all corners of the world, we are always pushing the boundaries to facilitate in the most extreme and challenging environments. We are reliable and easy to work with, for personal tailor made service, mixed with great experience and local knowledge, our clients are ensured of a successful project.

We are passionately driven to stay ahead and are inspired by you the filmmaker. We have the touch to bring the magic to your production.

In Namibia many of our locations fall within Natural Heritage or are a part of Conservation – we work closely with the Ministry of Environment and Tourism to uphold these locations. We assist with full rehabilitation on any impact locations after production.

Find Mammalz on the App Store.

Mammalz is a community-driven user-generated content platform for all things nature. Mammalz offers a centralized place for today's generation of socially savvy nature content creators, scientists, and consumers to connect with each other and create a global community around anything that advances the human-nature relationship. Mammalz supports all forms of media: live streaming, video, photos, 360/VR, and podcasts.

And, Mammalz goes way beyond the "like" button with engagement tools like live stream chat, comments, direct chat, and discussion boards.

Founded by biologists-turned-wildlife filmmakers, Rob Whitehair (right above) and Alexander Finden, Mammalz is the "Twitch for Nature"; an iOS app and web-based media streaming and social platform dedicated to nature storytelling and driven by community. Whether you are a professional media maker, scientist, educator, artist, or one of over 600 million nature enthusiasts across the planet, Mammalz provides you with the tools to personalize your experience, share your love of nature, and truly make a difference.

In the future, Mammalz will be adding monetization tools similar to Patreon right in the app. This will allow organizations, scientists, and content creators to generate funding for their projects from the community who follows their content.

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.

Aims of the Phana Monkey Project:

• Promote the safety and well-being of the monkey population of Phana.
• Make and promote recommendations for the maintenance of the forest habitat, the development of tourist visits and school visits, and the monitoring and control of visitors and provisioning of monkeys.
• Produce and provide educational materials and opportunities for students.
• Promote the Don Chao Poo Forest as a research and educational resource.

Don Chao Poo is the perfect place for taking pictures and making films of the monkeys in their natural habitat. The interaction of local residents and visitors with the monkeys is frequent, harmonious and non-aggressive from both sides.

Phana Monkey Project can provide cheap accommodation and experienced guides to the forest and the long-tailed macaques resident there.

Please see our website for more details.

Project Media supports conservation groups, public marine aquariums and charitable bodies by promoting the protection of wildlife in Scotland through the production of educational film and media.

Reconnecting kids with nature, a global conversation.

Project Wild Thing is a campaign that aims to make one million people aware of the importance of time spent outdoors for adults and children.

PROJECT WILD THING from Green Lions

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The Lodge, Sandy
Bedfordshire SG19 2DL
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)1767 680551
Fax: +44 (0)1767 683262

Email: filmunit@rspb.org.uk

Website: www.rspb.org.uk

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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.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture is a non-profit social enterprise, founded by a group of professional communicators motivated by the need to rebuild healthy ecosystems where wildlife and people flourish.

Our job is to open hearts, unlock minds and build community. We work with a range of partners and clients to produce innovative films, books, photo-stories, presentations and education resources, all designed to inform, inspire and influence fresh thinking around the benefits of a wilder Scotland.

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
• Scubazoo are a Member of Filmmakers for Conservation
• 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 Sea Change Project is a nonprofit Trust based in Cape Town, South Africa.

It involves a community of scientists, storytellers, journalists and filmmakers who are dedicated to raising awareness of the beauty and ecological importance of South Africa’s Great African Sea Forest.

We use media advocacy to protect the South African marine environment.

We’ve developed the concept of The Great African Sea Forest and our goal is to have it declared an UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site.

We believe that if we can get others to regard it as one of the natural wonders of the world, they will be inspired to conserve it.

Sea Change Book: Primal Joy and the Art of Underwater Tracking
by Craig Fister and Ross Frylinck

There is a wild sea-forest growing beneath the wind and waves at the southern tip of Africa. Here, millions of creatures live in a borderless realm still ungoverned by man and it is strange and beautiful beyond the telling.

Buy an Hardcover copy or eBook here: seachangeproject.com/buy-book

Space4All is an astronomy organisation setup by Josh Dury to actively promote practical astronomy and to engage members from all backgrounds.

Welcome to Space4All (2020):

Company Overview: Sussex Wildlife Trust is the leading nature conservation organisation working in East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton.

We look after over 4500 acres of downland, woodland, wetland and heath.

Our work also includes environmental education, working with land owners, companies and local communities to conserve Sussex.

Mission: Our aim is to conserve the Sussex landscape, wildlife and its habitats, and to use our knowledge and expertise to help the people of Sussex to enjoy, understand and take action.

We aim to achieve this by carrying out work under the following five broad headings:

1. Enhancing the desire in people for a healthy, wildlife rich environment
2. Leading the conservation agenda for Sussex
3. Biodiversity monitoring and recording
4. Promoting achievement of biodiversity targets by others
5. Delivering progress towards biodiversity targets ourselves

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.

Innovative, immersive storytelling combining short video clips and images with full-spherical panoramas in wildlife conservation hotspots.

The Virtual Ecotourism project uses interactive on-line tours to connect the general public with conservation projects and local communities in ecologically and culturally sensitive areas worldwide. We aim to nurture curiosity about the natural world, promote effective world citizenship, contribute to alternative livelihoods for communities living in areas of high conservation importance, and combat environmental degradation.

Westcountry Wildlife is a small promotional outfit working in the Somerset & Devon area.

We currently produce small promotional videos for the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

If your looking for a local presenter then look no further.

LB Loxleys presenting style has been praised by Steven Moss (former BBC producer).

For your small scale promotions, website clips etc, give us a call.

Wildeye
The International School of Wildlife Film-making

Wildeye run a number of courses, workshops and training expeditions for aspiring wildlife film-makers and enthusiastic amateurs. If you are just starting out we suggest you start with the Introduction to Wildlife Film-making weekend in Norfolk, UK.

From there you can go on to take more specialist weekend courses such as Wildlife Camera Operator, Research and Production for Wildlife Documentaries, Creative Video Editing or Wildlife Sound Recording.

Wildeye also run a variety of exciting wildlife training tours and expeditions all over the world.

Explore the website for the full range of training opportunities.

See Wildeye Publishing for a range of books on wildlife film-making.

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

Head of Media Production: Sacha Dench

Phone: +44 (0)1453 891900

Email: sacha.dench@wwt.org.uk

Website: www.wwt.org.uk

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Small media production team based at WWT HQ in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.

Providing full media production services to the organisation and it's partners.

We have a large archive of footage covering wildlife, conservation in action, people in nature.

Wildscreen

Studio 5
1 Canons Road
Bristol
BS1 5UH
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)117 929 1222

Email: hello@wildscreen.org

Website: www.wildscreen.org

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Wildscreen’s goal is to convene the best photographers, filmmakers and creative professionals with the most committed conservationists to create compelling stories about the natural world; that inspire the wider public to experience it, feel part of it and protect it.

Key initiatives:

• Wildscreen Arkive - the world’s leading online natural world encyclopaedia
• Wildscreen Exchange - A unique global hub that empowers conservation organisations by connecting them with world-leading filmmakers and photographers to create ground-breaking communications about our natural world.
• Wildscreen Festival - the internationally renowned festival that celebrates and advances the art of natural world storytelling.