What if Netflix was free, and it curated beautiful, short films about what is happening to the planet, and how we can be better environmental stewards?
Enter waterbear.com. No doubt I am very late to the party and plenty of people have already heard about this great platform. But I hadn’t, and so I have really enjoyed some of the short films it has to offer.
Waterbear describes itself as the first interactive streaming platform dedicated to the future of our planet. From what I can tell, it has hundreds of beautiful documentaries–most no longer than ten minutes–just a click away.
A few films I would recommend straight off the bat:
- The flying gold of Arabuko. This lovely film follows how butterfly catchers in Kenya have become unlikely saviours of the last and largest indigenous forest of the East African Coast.
- Ethiopia’s church forests, which tells the story of the pockets of lush biodiversity that are protected by hundreds of churches scattered like emerald pearls across a brown sea of farm fields.
- Hunting the Helmeted Hornbill (with tonnes of beautiful shots of these majestic, critically endangered birds at their tree hollow nests).
- Being heard. One man’s quest in pursuit of soundscapes.
And if you haven’t seen Voices on the Road, or Fools and Dreamers, then this is a your chance to rectify that mistake.
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