Most of the video clips posted here were edited from longer digital video versions that have been produced, broadcast, and/or screened for a variety of applications to support the environment on Vancouver Island. All video material was produced, shot, and edited by Richard Boyce.

“Aerial Rainforest Gardens” is a work in progress that highlights the canopy of the ancient rainforest along East Creek in the Klaskish Inlet just north of the Brooks Peninsula on the north west coast of Vancouver Island.

Primeval forest, an unexplored canopy, a world suspended, endangered species, the last stand of trees, evolution revealed… All need protection!

This 7 minute demo video introduces the place as well as some of the filmic techniques used by Richard.

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"The Art of Rainforests"
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Film by Richard Boyce (2005).
Music by John Mills-Cockell.

“The Art of Rainforests” video gives its audience the opportunity to experience the densest biomass on the planet Earth by entering the Ancient Rainforest on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

There is a magical art to this fragile environment on the brink of extinction. The film allows the natural world to speak for itself by revealing the beauty and diversity of a forest environment that both relies upon and continues the cycle of rain that provides for life on this planet.

This 24 minute video is available directly from Richard. (Use *Contact* link on the menu.)

"Tree-sit in Cathedral Grove"



Cathedral Grove ~ Ingmar Lee(mp4)
Cathedral Grove ~ Ingmar Lee(wmv)
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“Tree-sit in Cathedral Grove”

With constant vigilance since February 9, 2004, Environmental Activists have protected Cathedral Grove from Premier Gordon Campbell’s BC Liberal government’s plans to build a 150 car parking lot in a sensitive floodplain ecosystem.

Ingmar Lee speaks from a tree-sit platform built 150 feet high up in the forest canopy.
"Tour of Cathedral Grove"



Cathedral Grove ~ Ron Buchart (mp4)
Cathedral Grove ~ Ron Buchart (wmv)
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right-click to save either version - save link)

“Tour of Cathedral Grove”

Biologist Ron Buechert gives a tour of the sensitive ecosystem in Cathedral Grove where Gordon Campbell’s BC Liberal government plans to build a 150 car parking lot.

97% of this forest type, Low Bottom Valley Coastal Douglas-fir, has been destroyed by logging by corporations such as Weyerhaeuser, TimberWest, Interfor, and Brookfield.
"Ancient Douglas Fir Felled"
Shot 6 December 2005, in Errington,
Vancouver Island, BC.



Ancient Douglas Fir Felled (mov)
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“Ancient Douglas Fir Felled”

This 10 second video clip shows how long it takes for an ancient Douglas fir tree, over 500-years old, to come crashing to the ground. The giant fir in the screen on the left is about 80 meters (250 ft) tall and 3 meters (9 ft) across at the butt. To give a perspective of her size, the surrounding trees are approximately 40 meters (120 ft) tall.

“Save the Walbran Valley”

The Upper Walbran Valley is being subjected to “Special Management” by the BC Ministry of Forests who controls logging for this publicly owned Crown land which was excluded from the Carmanah/Walbran Provincial Park.

TimberWest and Brookfield both use Hayes Logging to destroy this ancient rainforest. Today roads continue to be blasted, giant trees felled, and the logs hauled away to be exported as raw logs.

Web sites where our video work is posted.

homelessnation.org   |   Cathedral Grove    |    wildernesscommittee.org

©2006 Island Bound Media Works
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
www.islandboundmedia.ca