Geographical
Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Better World Video Awards
All the best entrants in our spectacular Better World Video Awards in conjunction with MPB used camera specialist and Wakatobi Resort
Winners of the Better World Video Awards
The stories told by the two winning films show how a few individuals can help to make the world a better place
Better World Video Awards
All the entrants in our spectacular Better World Video Awards in conjunction with MPB used camera specialist and Wakatobi Resort
Better World: Isolation to Inclusion
Tackling loneliness and isolation by the waterways
Better World: Action Aid
Highlighting the broad scope of work done by Action Aid in 2023
Better World: Rewilding Waterhall
Rewilding Waterhall: a rare chalk grassland in the South Downs
Better World: Educating Girls in India
A project to help girls in India remain in school focuses on football
Better World: Volunteering with Refyoume
A project in Calais and Dunkirk links volunteers with refugees in need of help
Better World: Saving Scotland’s Oldest Pines
A Highlands project seeks to protect some of Scotland's oldest pines
Better World: Raise Our Voices, Lower Prices
Bringing generations together to enact real change
Better World: RahVeshi Programme
Preserving the Maldives with local research and solutions
Better World: Concerts Don’t Cost The Earth
Creating intimate spaces to share music and thoughts on the climate crisis
Better World: Mind Food
A charity tackles social isolation with the power of nature
Better World: Brazilian Amazon
A project bringing access to technology and sustainable technology to remote communities in the Amazon In Seringal Porongaba, a remote…
Better World: Secure Forests
A Better World video about using sensors to protect the rainforest from illegal loggers
Better World: A community’s compost story
A dedicated composter, taking community composting to the next level
Better World: Regenerating forest with goats!
This film celebrates a new way to mitigate forest fires, using goats
Better World: Seven years without a bin
A zero-waste couple share their tips and encouragement
Better World: The Story of Common Unity
The power of community in tackling societal issues is celebrated in this film about Common Unity
Better World: Second Chance
Two moving films about the Akwaaba Volunteers helping children in Ghana faced with extreme poverty
Better World: Changemaker Tirza Meinema
How one woman's passion for tidying up her local community has had a transformative impact
Better World: Bison in Kent
The Wilder Blean project to introduce free-roaming bison to re-wild a Kent woodland
Better World: Clean the World
A programme taking waste from landfills and turning it into soap for those in need
Better World: The Brick Kiln Donkeys of Egypt
Animal activist and actor Peter Egan joins Safe Haven 4 Donkeys on a visit to the brick kilns of Egypt…
Better World: Ebru’s Christmas Miracle
One family's efforts to bring a Christmas treat to children in need
Better World: Rhino Poaching
A orphanage that has rescued more than 1,000 rhinos from poachers and the extreme methods they take to save the endangered animals
Better World: The Berlin-Odessa Express
Volunteers drive from Germany to deliver desperately needed medical supplies to war-torn Ukraine
Better World: The Samara Story
Restoring South Africa’s third-largest protected area and reintroducing cheetah, black rhino, elephants and lions to the Great Karoo Samara Karoo…
Better World: Curlew River
Farmers and locals fight to save a threatened population of curlews in Oxfordshire
Better World: Running A Foodbank in Belfast
The story of Paul Doherty who set up a foodbank in his garage in Belfast
Better World: The Alladale Wilderness Reserve
A short film about how the Alladale Nature Reserve is helping transform the Scottish Highlands
Better World: The Lungs of the Sea
Protecting the vital seagrass meadows off southern Turkey. The work of the Fauna & Flora and the Mediterranean Conservation Society
Better World: The Nature Restorers
The Apricot Centre's Regenerative Agriculture School is growing the next generation of agricultural farmers
Better World: Scarlet Macaws of Belize
The battle to stop the poachers putting scarlet macaws in Belize at risk of extinction
Better World: Factory Farming and Climate Disasters in the Global South
A plea to end factory farming and to feed the world in a sustainable way from World Animal Protection
Better World: Saving the River Evenlode
Pollution and modifications have led to a devasting decline to the River Evenlode in Oxfordshire threatening wildlife
Better World: Turning Discarded Fishing Nets Into Art
A collaborative project reducing plastic waste by turning discarded fishing nets into artisanal creations
Better World: A Sustainable Fishery in Weymouth
A Dorset business supporting the sustainable fishing fleet in Weymouth
Better World: Building a Diverse Community
Film about community worker Shoba Resalayyan's work with Plan for Peace helping new UK citizens in Slough
Better World: Sperm Whales
Wildlife filmmaker Graeme Purdy gets close to a curious sperm whale in Dominica
Better World: Elephant Orphanage
The first elephant orphanage which has raised more than 300 young elephants and returned them to the wild
Better World: Hoot, Hiss, Howl
A celebration of the sounds of the wilderness from Wild.org. How a silent world would be a joyless world
Better World: Making a Tuna Fishery Sustainable
A Marine Stewardship Council video on how one Spanish business made controversial FAD fishing for tuna sustainable
Better World: Withington Walls Street Art
A community street art project is giving life and colour to the walls of Withington, Manchester, making it feel like home for residents
Better World: Plastic Man
Surfing environmentalists The Goat Surf Club head to Senegal to meet a unique campaigner and to catch some waves
Better World: Carbon Credits in Tanzania
A carbon offsets scheme is helping a hunter-gather tribe and a pastoralist tribe in Tanzania protect their land
Better World: Fountain of Life
A small charity help families to become self-sufficient with their own water supply
Better World: Unconditional Love
New York artist David Paul Kay creates a work to celebrate the values of the UK charity Arms Around the Child
Better world: Mantas of Makunudhoo
A Manta Trust expedition in the Maldives, the home of the largest known population of reef manta rays in the world
Better World: Child soldiers rescued
Youngsters dragged into the civil war in Burkina Faso are regaining their childhood in a secret care centre
Better World: How Halima was saved by Action Against Hunger in Somalia
Malnourished Halima was saved in just six weeks by Action Against Hunger. A Better World Video award entry
Better World: Preserving a green oasis in the heart of London
The inspiring story of a community that came together to safeguard Meath Gardens in Tower Hamlets
Better World: Restoring Bolton Fell
An inspiring short film about a nearly devasted peat bog in Cumbria has been brought back to life by the local community
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