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New Film Showcases Natural Beauty Of North Coast

Last Friday night at the Byron Community Centre local filmmaker David Warth premiered his stunning new film "Rainforest - The Secret Of Life". It was a full house of totally absorbed nature lovers who watched birds dance, marsupials forage and snakes hunt in the rainforests of the border ranges that form the natural backdrop to lives on the North Coast.

David has put in hours of painstacking work to capture the local fauna at work
and play in the small patches of natural habitat that they can still call their
own and their stories are warmly narrated by Jack Thompson.

These small patches of rainforest are the last remaining stands of ancient
forests had covered the area and are now under threat from climate change. The
forests are surrounded by human activity so there is no room for the flora and
fauna to migrate and eventually they will be lost.

But the filmmaker also had a broader message for his viewers. "Rainforests hold
the key to the secret of life on our planet. They are the most abundant and
diverse land environments on earth. Not only do they safe guard the genetic
bounty of our past, they also hold the very key to the future of our world that
is they form part of a vast global system that regulates the world’s climate."

Get a copy of the film from ABC Sales