EFU Film Grinding Nemo: what's the real cost of your prawn curry?
20th September, 2012
The Ecologist
The tropical shrimp industry in Thailand exploits both people and the environment, a major new film by the Ecologist Film Unit, Link TV and Swedwatch reveals
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EFU Film: The Greed of Feed – the hidden cost of your cheap farmed salmon
1st December, 2008
Andrew Wasley & Jim Wickens
A major investigation by the Ecologist reveals a host of unreported environmental and social costs linked to the fishmeal production industry in Peru
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EFU Film Fracking Hell – the environmental costs of the new US gas drilling boom
30th November, 2010
Jim Wickens
The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights
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EFU film UK tourists fuelling brutal live elephant trade between Burma & Thailand
The Ecologist
23rd July, 2012
An illegal cross-border trade in endangered wild Asian elephants to serve Thailand's tourist industry is threatening the future of the species, an undercover investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) has revealed
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EFU film Blood harvest: Coca Cola challenged over orange trade linked to 'exploitation and squalor'
Andrew Wasley
24th February, 2012
The manufacturer of Fanta is being urged to help address the poor conditions and low wages endured by some African migrant workers harvesting oranges in southern Italy. Andrew Wasley reports from Rosarno
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EFU film The carbon con: investigating the true cost of offsetting
Ecologist
1st December, 2011
The Ecologist investigates allegations a coal power project in India, approved under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism, is destroying forests and livelihoods
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EFU Film: Food speculation – how betting on food commodities fuels Mexico’s tortilla crisis
Tom Levitt
13th September, 2011
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates
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Sour Milk – undercover inside the US intensive dairy industry
Jim Wickens
21st September 2010
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business...
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Dwindling forests, dwindling futures – how forest dwellers being ignored by the Bangladeshi Government
A new Ecologist-produced film - to be screened by campaigners from the Forest People's Programme at the forthcoming Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Japan - highlights how the rights of indigenous peoples and their sustainable use of natural resources are being ignored by the Bangladesh Government
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Selling The Sea – revealing Indonesia’s little-known plans to privatise huge swathes of coastline for aquaculture
Jim Wickens
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline
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The Killing Fields – human rights abuses and environmental devastation in Paraguay’s soya fields
Andrew Wasley
13th October, 2009
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports
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Sick As A pig – the menace of MRSA linked to industrial pig farming
Another strain of MRSA is emerging from the factory farms of Northern Europe, and it is linked to the insatiable demand for cheap meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit investigates
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Giri Raja: the Forest King – reporting on the “wonder-chicken” hailed as a solution to feeding India’s poor
Andrew Wasley
7th August, 2008
It was bred to aid the rural poor, but one bird is also helping break industrialised farming’s stranglehold on India. Andrew Wasley meets the remarkable Giriraja
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Melting Point – on the frontline of environmental activism
Andrew Wasley
13th July 2008
The Ecologist Film Unit's second release documents how espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of Government and big business to the increasingly vocal concerns of environmental protesters in the UK
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Hell For Leather – investigating the leather industry in Bangladesh
Jim Wickens
1st June, 2008
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods
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