Climate change is creeping slowly onwards year by year

Critical issues need to be addressed if the negotiations are to be successful.

• Latest figures by the United Nations show the world is heading towards up to 5 degrees warming - with devastating impacts for people and the planet.
• The poorest people in the world are already being hit by climate change.
• Rich developed countries are providing little or nothing to help those being affected.

At Cinebutterflies we offer you the chance to experience the butterflies of the tropics as they could be seen before the forests went. No need to travel to see them, and add to the globe's carbon overload. Just watch them at home, in comfort.

Welcome to the only website to offer hours of butterflies, ALIVE, and in their NATURAL HABITATS

• A choice of 8 films on DVD to buy – all of butterflies of different parts of the world, with more to come in 2012
• The story of how our series on The World’s Butterflies has grown and changed since we began in the 1970s, and how our “Cinebutterflies Library of Butterflies on Film” is getting on.

2010 40 minutes DVD (region-free)
£12.50 (exc delivery & VAT)
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Produced from a 6-week tour of the main butteerfly habitats of West and East Malaysia in 1997, the film lives an imaginary day in the lives of 120 of its butterflies. You will find yourself in many lovely locations; Langkawi island and Penang Hill in the north; through Taman Negara National Park, Genting, Kuala Selangor and the Cameron Highlands in mainland Malaysia; to Mulu National Park and Mount Kinabalu in Sabah on Borneo (East Malaysia).

"In the Shadow of Kangchenjunga", our film of the butterflies of Sikkim, which was released in January 2009, won another Award for Cinebutterflies at the 32nd International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana, USA, in April. Given a Special Mention for its Cinematography, the film was the fifth to receive an Award. Three other films have been distinguished for their scientific content, and one for its educational content.

The Festival attracts entries worldwide and is the largest annual gathering of wildlife filmmakers.

Ever since my first sight of the great Kangchenjunga range in 1962, I have wanted to make a film of the butterflies of Sikkim against the background of the Himalayan peaks. In 2006 Pat and I managed a short trip, into Sikkim, and the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, which once was also part of greater Sikkim.

You can see the results in In the shadow of Kangchenjunga, released on DVD in January 2009.

Made to help Sikkim schools introduce young people to the beauties and wonders of that marvellous country's natural heritage, the film runs for 35 minutes and presents a lively selection of its butterflies. As always it is shot close up, and brings the riches of the butterflies vividly to life, as well as the valleys and forests of the Himalayan foothills.

The Asian species are also shown on our 2 films, Palawan... Butterfly Paradise which you can buy on DVD, and "Wonders of the East" which we hope to have available on DVD soon.