RAISING funds late last month with a sponsored bike ride through the Jarrah Forest, documentary maker Jane Hammond is back on track to make two new films to help save it.

Working hand in hand with conservation groups, her previous two films have won scores of international awards and have had an incredible impact.

The first film, ‘Cry of the Forests’, was instrumental in building the movement that stopped logging in native forests in WA.

The second ‘Black Cockatoo Crisis’ drew attention to mining and helped garner over 59,000 submissions to the Environmental Protection Authority.

Now she is raising funds for the third and fourth film in the quadrilogy.

Her latest film ‘Undermining the Forest’ will drill down further into the damage of bauxite mining and the need to protect what she describes as the world’s oldest, most biodiverse and most vulnerable temperate forests and the water that it provides to over two million people.

“All of this is at risk if mining expands, and the next year is going to be crucial,” Ms Hammond said.

“People power will be essential to help stop any further mining expansion and end all mining in the Jarrah Forest as the government decides if mining should expand.

“The lack of rain and increasing intensity and frequency of heatwaves has already seen huge swaths of the Jarrah Forest die off, and poor seed production has led to severe food shortages for black cockatoos.

“If you want to help, you don’t need to ride through the forest at breakneck speed, simply go online and make a donation. Every dollar raised goes towards getting the films made and seen.”

To donate go to the Browned Off webpage.