Telling critical stories from the edges of the world.
Our reporters travel to the Burma/Bangladesh border region to investigate the ongoing human rights abuses against the Rohingya minority that live in the region. Refused citizenship from both Burma and Bangladesh these people are left stateless and with little opportunity for a positive future.
Part 1 can be viewed here
Seasonal rice harvests in the Mekong River Delta are threatened by the rise of sea tides due to climate change.
This film is part of the Mekong Diaries; Goodmorningbeautiful travelled the length of the Mekong, the world’s last wild great river, as the forces of development change it forever.
At the mouth of the river, climate change is affecting of the lives of both those who fish the river and those who fish in the sea.
This film is part of the Mekong Diaries series; Goodmorningbeautiful travelled the length of the Mekong, the world’s last wild great river, as the forces of development change it forever.
The Mekong Delta has traditionally served as a nexus of commerce to the people of South Vietnam, but now development is threatening the way of life for millions who call the Delta home.
This film is part of the Mekong Diaries series; Goodmorningbeautiful travelled the length of the Mekong, the world’s last wild great river, as the forces of development change it forever.
Once, evergreen forests stretched across Southeast Asia. Now the largest forest of this kind lies next to the Mekong River in Cambodia, and it is unprotected.
Custodians of the land and forest since before recorded history, the rhythms of Kuy traditions, beliefs, medicines and livelihoods are interwoven with existence of Prey Lang Forest.
Already there are mines, logging and rubber plantations. But these are small scale compared to what is coming next. International investment in mining, roads, plantations and dams could turn Prey Lang into an industrial estate with just a few years.
Once already the Kuy rose up to save Prey Lang from logger’s chainsaws. But more is needed than patrolling and advocacy. It is going to take the outside world waking up to the human and environmental imperative to save Prey Lang and the Kuy people.
Before the axe falls.
Four flights and just over 34 hours of travel marked the beginning of the second phase of our 2009 Expedition Blue Planet as we flew halfway around the globe to join the Blue Legacy film crew in Cambodia. What started as a research outline quickly evolved into a five continent expedition dedicated to chronicling the interconnectivity of some of our most critical water stories.
But it wasn’t water that caught my attention as we winged our way above the Mekong River and banked to touch down in Phnom Penh. It was a thick blanket blocking the sun and shrouding the twisting gold and orange spires of local Wats in a cloak of drab gray. The thick scent of burning wood was caught in my throat and I realized that the city’s shroud is it’s ancient forests slipping slowly skyward leaving only stumps and muddy hillsides where once stood a global treasure.
The Mekong River, a mother for millions in South East Asia now under threat by dams, development and climate change. Expedition travels to the heart of the river in Cambodia where locals fear for their future if large hydropower projects are built on their river.
‘I wanted to feed them warm rice,’ says a North Korean woman who though she was going to get a job by defecting to China. Instead she was forcibly married to a man.
In the 1990s North Korea was gripped by a devastating famine, which killed an estimated 3 million people. Since that time hunger as driver thousands of North Koreans across the border into China and human traffickers. These are stories of three women who made this perilous journey.
This film is a part of the series “Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery.” A series of films and media documenting human trafficking as it is experience by millions of women, men and children throughout Asia; a generation of people, living outside of citizenship, borders and basic human rights.
On the banks of the Mekong in the capital of Laos in Vientiane, people lives are intimately connected to the river.
The dramatic annual rise and fall of the Mekong’s waters create a pulse for the Tonle Sap, a great lake at the heart of Cambodia, supporting the lives of the poorest with an abundance of fish, for now.
Cambodians gather in their nation’s capital, Phnom Penh, to witness the traditional boat races and nightly fireworks.
Officially, the military regime fights drug production in Shan State, Burma, but our reporters meet with local residents who expose the army as a main participant in the manufacturing process.
A first person story of trafficking illustrated through a survivors drawings. An advocacy film produced for World Vision.
Prey Lang is the largest primary lowland dry evergreen forest remaining in both Cambodia and the Indochinese Peninsula. With an estimated 600,000 people relying on the forest for survival, logging and mining interests have the potential to destroy this critical, fragile and ancient forest habitat.
The Tonle Sap, the largest inland lake in South East Asia is geographically and culturally the centre of Kindgom of Cambodia. The flooded forests of this epic inland sea, are so rich in fishstocks that they provide nutrition for the entire nation.
Alexandra Cousteau interviews Carl Middleton from International Rivers on the Mekong River as it flows through Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Alexandra Cousteau interviews Conservation International’s David Emmett on the Tonle Sap, Cambodia.
