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Environment & Nature Programs
How humans interact with the environment is vital for our future: SCN offers the best programs about the fascinating natural world and our place in it.
Series
| Canada: A Magnificent Journey Canada: A Magnificent Journey is a three hour visual odyssey that takes viewers on an exciting and spell-binding journey across a great land. Our magnificent journey is presented in three parts - New Frontiers; Treasures of the Land; and Stories of Our Past. Viewers cross the land to discover beautiful vistas, come face-to-face with a diversity of wildlife, and learn the fascinating history of the men and women who explored the land and shaped its destiny. The series contains over three hours of dynamic documentary video footage accompanied by a powerful music track and informative narration. In addition we hear from historians, experts and present day participants. | ||
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| Canadian Waterways Canada has a dramatic coastline that traces along three oceans. It also has the largest freshwater supply in the world. As we travel along these waterways, we discover the historical significance of places we pass, meet the local wildlife and learn some very interesting facts about the geography of Canada. | ||
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| Life in Cold Blood Reptiles and amphibians ruled the world for nearly 200 million years and today there are still over 12,500 of them. Some are huge, the deadliest creatures on earth. Some are tiny, among the strangest to be found anywhere. Together, they not only outnumber mammals or birds but in their colourful variety and extraordinary behaviour, they far surpass them. So where did these ancient creatures come from? How have they transformed themselves into the bizarre and beautiful forms that are alive today? And what's the secret of their epic success? In "Life in Cold Blood", host David Attenborough traces the story of their evolution and overturns the myth that these creatures are just primitive killers to reveal them for what they truly are. | ||
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| Meerkat Manor With all the love, squabbling, self-sacrifice and rivalry found in any family, a group of meerkats struggles to survive in Africa's Kalahari Desert. | ||
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| One Year and Forty Acres One Year and Forty Acres follows naturalist film-maker Robert Long and his wildlife friends for twelve months as he shoots a documentary about the life and times of forty acres of Aspen Parkland in southern Saskatchewan. | ||
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| Secret World of Gardens; The Using macro lenses and time lapse photography, The Secret World of Gardens, gives a close-up look at the complex ecosystem that is the backyard garden. | ||
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| Undersea Explorer From treasure hunters to shark divers, explore the dangerous and fascinating underwater world of the last frontier. Using state-of-the-art underwater photography, Undersea Explorer takes you on intriguing journeys to the rarely seen, strange and unusual underwater kingdom. | ||
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| Wildlife Diary Welcome to Wildlife Diary, the ultimate in Reality TV. The difference is that the cast is the fabulous African Wildlife, the set is the African Bush and the scriptwriter is Mother Nature! The Karongwe Conservancy situated at the foothills of the majestic Drakensberg Mountains of Southern Africa, has tasked the research team to monitor the intimate lives of Africa's finest creatures around the clock. Never before have human beings witnessed such riveting characters and intense dramas. | ||
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| Wings Over Canada Bush Pilot John Lovelace covers every corner of wilderness Canada documenting his travels and discoveries for the Wings Over Canada television series. The series, now seen weekly just about everywhere in North America, is a lighthearted look at Canada, its people, history and customs. No subject escapes John or his crew as they work their way from ghost towns and remote fly-in fishing lakes to gold mines in search of the next unique adventure. | ||
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Individual Documentaries
| Garbage: The Revolution Starts at Home Concerned for the future of his new baby boy Sebastian, writer director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the McDonald's, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage that they create for three months. He then takes them on a journey to find out where it all goes and what it's doing to the world. Garbage: The Revolution Starts at Home is a feature documentary about how the family household has become one of the most ferocious environmental predators of our time. | ||
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| Hoppy the Deer After finding an abandoned baby deer on their driveway a young couple's lives are turned upside-down as they take the fawn into their care, their home, and their hearts. But the extraordinary situation can't last forever because Hoppy matures and his adoptive parents face the challenge of finding him a long-term home. The story of a remarkably close encounter with a playful, but ultimately wild animal. | ||
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| Revolution Green Revolution Green is as much about the choices we face in the world today as it is about the future of one man's idea, or one truckers dream to find his favorite fuel. In the end, history will remember the crossroads we find ourselves at as America stands on the brink of a new industrial revolution. | ||
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| Saskatchewan River Delta This one-hour documentary explores the vast Saskatchewan River Delta in four seasons from the perspectives of culture, science, and nature. Traveling by air, ground, and water with the many people who live and work there, we visit Canada's largest inland delta - one of the largest unbroken wetlands left on Earth. | ||
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| Shipsinkers; The Take one rotting old naval ship, clean well, add divers with a passion for wreck diving and a ton of explosives. What do you get? A big bang and an underwater adventure that draws adventurers from all over the world. In this documentary, explosions meet ecology as old navy ships get sunk to become artificial reefs. Artificial reefs are big business and Canadians are the undisputed world leaders in the technology needed to create them. Meticulously cleaned of pollutants, these submerged structures provide habitat and breeding sites for countless marine species. | ||
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| Storm; The Most sensible humans avoid extreme weather conditions if possible, but surfers long for the cyclone season which brings wild storms and thrilling waves. This gripping documentary follows world famous American surf tracker Mike Perry, whose lifelong obsession with global wave activity has earned him a reputation for forecasting the greatest waves around the globe for the world's thrill seeking surfers. Where do the waves come from? How do they form? What is a cyclone? Why do they start? What does it feel like to ride a wave? These are questions answered in situ as Perry explains his passion, as 'The Storm' (the cyclone season) brings extreme weather conditions literally to his doorstep. A fantastic and refreshing mix of surf and science based on Australia's beautiful but treacherous Gold Coast. | ||
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