Biodiversity

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The Hunger Chronicles is a documentary series for radio and web that explores the causes of the global hunger crisis and the most promising efforts to combat it. Partners are Homelands Productions, a nonprofit media cooperative specializing in public radio documentaries; Magnum Photos, widely considered the world’s most prestigious photo agency; NPR; Cornell University, and the USC Annenberg School. 

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Two environmental films filled with hope: Tales of the San Joaquin Revision, the total success story of the contemporary restoration of the San Joaquin River after an eighteen-year lawsuit; and Tulare Lake, the prospects for restoring what was once the largest lake west of the Mississippi River.

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The Vanishing of the Bees, a feature-length documentary, takes a piercing look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a keystone species vital to sustaining our ecosystem.

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A Fierce Green Fire is a documentary which tells stories of environmental activism – people trying to save the planet, their homes, their lives, the future. The first overview of the environmental movement, the film spans five decades and brings together all the issues and causes.

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The Iraqi Seed Project is a cross-platform educational resource and media project examining the long history of agriculture in Iraq and the legacy left to farmers in the region after years of war, sanctions and environmental neglect.

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Bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reunites with Chase County, Kansas to experience one of America's most environmentally advanced communities in "Return to PrairyErth." The Center for Independent Documentary is serving as fiscal sponsor for the film project.

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Hammer Simwinga of Zambia, and his American counterparts, Mark and Delia Owens, have devoted their lives to saving the endangered elephant herds in Northern Zambia by converting poachers to respectable trades like sustainable farming, beekeeping, fish farming and cornmilling. This is their story.

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Through the stories of farmers who steward land from Harlem to the foothills of the Rockies, from upstate New York to Florida, WHAT'S "ORGANIC" ABOUT ORGANIC? offers the audience a deeper understanding of the complexities involved in creating a more sustainable food system.  The film provides insight for certification systems taking root across our society, showing the pitfalls that can arise when idealism is formalized into a label.

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CHILDREN OF THE AMAZON, an award-winning documentary, follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart.

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Making Contact will produce 3 radio documentaries about the various facets of the climate crisis, and what the true meaning of climate justice is.

Broadcast on 130 radio stations nationwide and paired with a broad educational outreach campaign to teachers, these programs will help shift public discourse on climate change, advancing climate policy at the national level and fostering community action at the local level.