Mountains in the mist : discovering cloud forests
2004
Bruijnzeel, Sampurno |
Have you ever heard of cloud forests? These intriguing ecosystems only represent 2% of the worlds tropical forests. And yet, they are important treasure houses of biodiversity and suppliers of large volumes of high-quality stream-flow. However, these cloud forests are among the most threatened forest ecosystems in the work. In this film scientists try to unravel the secrets of these amazing ecosystems and understand how forest protection works in Costa Rica.