Community-based Biodiversity Conservation Films (CBCF) developed from an initiative of Richard Brock, producer of BBC TV’s “Life on Earth” and “The Living Planet”, and David Harper, ecologist and conservationist at the University of Leicester, who has conducted research in East Africa’s Rift Valley for 25 years (http://www.kenya-rift-lakes.org/), in partnership with conservation film-makers Ben Please (UK) and Erin Moore (USA), who had experience of conservation film-making in East Africa.

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The project started in October 2007. It is three years in duration and is currently (May 2009) half way through. It has seven goals:-
1) To train indigenous young conservationists in Kenya and Tanzania to make biodiversity conservation films,
2) To make these films in partnership with local communities about issues linked to their local livelihoods,
3) To achieve 15 Film Series (collections of about 10 short films on the same theme) on relevant topics by the End of Project,
4) To distribute these films among education organisations (NGO and government) within each country,
5) To evaluate the effectiveness of digital films as a means of education and capacity-building in schools and countries,
6) To establish digital laboratories for conservation film-making in each country and
7) To produce a Manual by the End of Project, so that the process can be repeated anywhere across the world.