A range of video, webpages, articles and games and quizzes to extend and improve your knowledge. Don’t forget to revisit the Environmental Issues pages regularly.

Yanomami | LINK 1 | LINK 2 | LINK 3 | LINK 4 |  These four video clips show details of environmental and cultural threats to a tribe in the Amazonian Rainforest.

Revision Video: Renewable Energy | LINK |  Short clip about British company Ecotricity and windpower and renewable energy solutions.

Revision Video: Making a difference to Climate Change  | LINK |

Revision Video: New fuels for Nottinghamshire  | LINK | Renewables and biomass fuels in schools as a local council goes greener.

Revision Video: Honduras: Urbanisation and firewood, deforestation | LINK |

Revision Video: India and water in Utter Pradesh| LINK | Irrigation problems and crops - innovative company easily solving obstacles in LEDCs without harming the planet.

Kayapo Tribe Links |

Maldives and Global Tourism | Increasing sea levels, and also increasing tourists are troubling the Indian Ocean island paradise of the Maldives and nearby coral reefs.

• Maldives Holidays | LINK |  Cultural conflict (see Christmas decorations) and tourism
• 17 Oct 2009 Maldives Cabinet meets underwater to highlight danger to their country | LINK |
• Tourism Vs Ecotourism | LINK |
• Teachers TV Is ecotourism a good or bad thing? | LINK |

Tuvalu: An Island in Danger | Increasing sea-levels are threatening this island nation.

• Save Tuvalu video | LINK |
• Paradise drowned: Tuvalu video | LINK |
• Tuvalu Growing not sinking | LINK |
• BBC Country Profile: Tuvalu | LINK |
• Tuvalu vows to go carbon neutral  | LINK |
• Video on Tuvalu | LINK |
• Paradise in Peril | LINK |
• Youth exchange with islands | LINK |
• Tuvalu struggles to hold back the tide | LINK |
• Wikipedia entry on Tuvalu | LINK |

Great Barrier Reef | The coral which makes up the GBR is been threatened by sea pollution, increasing temperatures,

• Video: Climate Change threatens Great Barrier Reef | LINK |
• Video: Australian Government video on the threats to Great Barrier Reef | LINK |
• Video: Coral Bleaching on the GBR | LINK |
• Video: BBC Blue Planet Coral Reefs in danger | LINK |

Greenpeace | An active, campaigning pressure group who use direct action methods to communicate their concerns about the dangers to the environment.

• Greenpeace website | LINK |
• GreenpeaceUK YouTube video channel | LINK |

RSPB | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds are a single issue pressure groupwho campaign to promote awareness of birds, danger to birds.

• RSPB website | LINK |
• So…You’re the RSPB video | LINK |

Amazon Rainforest | A vast area of tropical rainforest facing many threats, once known as the lungs of the earth for the sheer amount of oxygen produced by its photosynthesising trees, shrubs and plants. An important example of biodiversity.

• Friends of the Earth | LINK |  Are an environmental pressure group who focus on finding and promoting solution to environmental issues.
• BBC First film footage of a lost and unknown tribe in the Amazon | LINK |
• Amazon road set to give Brazil and Peru new trade route | LINK |
• East Anglia Biodiversity hotspot | LINK |
• Deal to Protect Amazon in Peru from Oil Drilling | LINK |
• BBC Video on the Amazon Rainforest | LINK |
• Amazon Fires on the rise | LINK |
• Huge Brazil dam step closer | LINK |
• Real Life in the Amazon | LINK |
• Open University pages on Amazon – Why does it matter? | LINK |
• Wikipedia entry on the Amazon Rainforest | LINK |
• Amazon Deforestation video | LINK |
• Amazon animals and biodiversity | LINK |
• Amazon deforestation video | LINK |
• How cattle ranching is damaging the rainforest | LINK |

Global Inequality looks at the causes of worldwide poverty, the impact and possible solutions for LEDCs and explores ways in which MEDCs can work smarter to save lives and help other nations across the planet.

Aid | LINK | Short and dated video on AID

Ethiopia This case study is an important view of an African LEDC.

• Video: Ethiopian Culture | LINK |
• Wikipedia entry on Ethiopia | LINK |
• BBC Country Profile Ethiopia | LINK |
• Video: BBC Explore report on Ethiopia Feeding Centre | LINK |
• Video: Sustainable Hydro electrical development in Ethiopia BBC report | LINK |

Spain As an MEDC this is also a good comparison for Ethiopia, as well as the UK, and allows cultural as well as other comparisons to be drawn.

• Video: Spanish Culture (1of3) | LINK |
• Wikipedia entry on Spain | LINK |
• BBC Country information file SPAIN  | LINK |
• Video: Spain, its people and culture | LINK |
• Video: The effects of tourism Majorca, Spain | LINK |

The core ideas contained in Culture and Beliefs underpin all your learning in Humanities, the concepts are complicated, but once you understand them then the rest will fall into place.

Dog Girl | LINK | A short video about children growing up with animals and failing to develop into adults with norms shared within their culture.

The Amish Culture | LINK | Amish Family and barn raising

Cultural Conflict | LINK | Amish cultural conflict

Cultural Conflict | LINK | The Amish: Conflict between cultures

William: Child of our Time | LINK | This video by Prof Winston reviews development in children and how they obtain their norms, gender stereotypes and values.