Übergordnete Werke und Veranstaltungen
Um Jahrmillionen voraus
Media
Um Jahrmillionen voraus Manfred Baier (Filmstill)
© BASF 1975
Produced by the Gesellschaft für bildende Filme (GBF), the BASF film Um Jahrmillionen voraus (Millions of Years Ahead) received numerous awards for its impressive images of insect biology, was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary Short Film category in 1976 and was used in school lessons for decades. "In South America, the leaf-cutting ant is a feared pest that defoliates trees, cuts fruit and leaves into pieces and then carries them into underground burrows to cultivate a fungus. Today, research is concentrating on mushroom gardens. Millions of years ago, nature had already taken a path that our modern agriculture is now also forced to follow, the path to monoculture." (from a fact sheet on Um Jahrmillionen voraus)