(A filmmaker with a passion for preservation offers great live video feed from the Brazilian rainforest at CheckItLive.com. Though his background is in communication and advertising, Luciano Breves was inspired to become a documentary filmmaker on a car trip across his native Brazil in 1997 when he witnessed a fire in the rainforest.)
Wildlife documentary filmmaker Luciano Breves
scales a tree while working on a project aimed
at preserving the red tailed parrot.
At home in the rainforest.
Born in Mogi das Cruzes in São Paulo State, Brazil, Breves has lived in several places in the southern three states of his country and now resides in Morretes City, Parana State, a small city in southern Brazil surrounded by the largest continuously preserved portion of the Atlantic rainforest at the base of a mountain range known as Maciço do Murumbi.
Sharing a vision
The idea for his live video feed came originally from his wife Rose, says Breves, as a way of monitoring the preserved areas of the forest without interference, but 10 years ago when they had first conceived of the idea, the Internet was still too slow to support such a project. The idea of placing a live camera in a remote area of the rainforest also presented what were, at the time, insurmountable technical obstacles. However, last year while watching in amazement as huge numbers of birds flocked to his feeders in an urbanized neighborhood of his hometown, an idea struck him. If he could share the image of this natural beauty with others around the world, he thought, perhaps they would fall in love just as he had and understand the importance of presevation.
Realizing a dream
At first, Breves shared his new Webcam with friends and contacts through MSN, but by the second day the traffic was proving a problem, he says. He soon found a Website that provided a wider audience but the hosting company also placed annoying and sometimes inappropriate ads on his video feed and at the same time he was seeking a way to generate enough revenue to maintain the Webcam long term. Breves found CheckItLive through a friend in the UK who had been referred by a representative of The Prince's Rainforest Project. He says the same day he contacted the company, Mark Welch, CEO of fiNETra, the live video streaming company responsible for CheckItLive reviewed the feed and set things in motion to host it on the site.
A golden opportunity
CheckItLive.com offers you the opportunity to share your live streaming video with the world on our site and earn some revenue from the traffic it creates. Just send us a link to your live streaming video for review.
"We want feeds from all around the world and if good enough we will add to our main categories and if they become popular we will share some advertising revenue," Welch says. Send us your feed today.
This tale proves that if a man has a dream...and follows it with passion...one day he will succeed.
This cam has shown some of the most beatiful birds of the Atlantic Rain Forest, an area that is disappearing at alarming rates. It deserves the support of anyone who cares about the state of our planet, and the loss of this habitat. It would be a crime against Nature to lose any of these species, and those there that are already on the endangered list.
Parabens Luciano and continued success.
Posted by: susu | 08/10/2009 at 01:30 PM
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Thanks the cam - I have been enjoying it. It looks like they emptied the feeder out yesterday and it's still empty. Just thought I would give you a head's up! :)
Thanks!
Posted by: Chad | 03/12/2010 at 12:43 PM
I'm real glad that Breves decided to share this with more people than his friends and family. It's so important that people will get the "feel" of these amazing places and maybe then do something about saving them. Thanks a lot, I'll be sure to forward this along. :)
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