Can Tropical Rainforests Be Saved?

In 1945, rainforests covered over 14% of the Earth's surface. Now, over half of that area has vanished to development. Yet rainforests are the source of life-saving medicines, habitat to over half of the world's plant and animal species and homeland to millions of tribal peoples and a vital regulator of the Earth's climate. Our future depends on their preservation. This brilliant and troubling documentary combines spectacular nature footage with incisive investigative reporting as it probes the many reasons behind the universal plea to save the rainforests. The first global look at one of the mors urgent issues of our time.