http://news.linktv.org Link TV News Videos (Filtered by topics: Conservation) en-us Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://news.linktv.org/videos/hope-in-a-changing-climate-restoring-the-earth?start=0 <p>Is it possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, improve the lives of people trapped in poverty, and sequester carbon naturally? John D. Liu has proven that it is. His film, "Hope in a Changing Climate," showcases approaches that have worked on the Loess Plateau in China, Ethiopia and Rwanda. Produced in collaboration with the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP).</p> Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/hope-in-a-changing-climate-restoring-the-earth Loess Plateau, Ecology, Climate change, Rwanda, Ethiopia, China, Carbon sequestration, Environment, Conservation, Earth Focus Is it possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, improve the lives of people trapped in poverty, and sequester carbon naturally? John D. Liu has proven that it is. His film, "Hope in a Changing Climate," showcases approaches that have worked on the Loess Plateau in China, Ethiopia and Rwanda. Produced in collaboration with the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP). http://news.linktv.org/videos/shades-of-gray-living-with-wolves?start=0 <p>Gray wolves once ranged across North America. But by the 1930s, they were nearly extinct -- trapped, poisoned and hunted by ranchers, farmers, and government agents. With protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act, the wolf population rebounded. But wolves lost federal protection in 2011. Now, with hunting permitted in many Western states, the future of this once endangered species may again be in question. Can we live with wolves? Earth Focus travels to Montana and Wyoming to find out.</p> Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/shades-of-gray-living-with-wolves Wolf, Endangered Species Act, North America, Montana, Wyoming, Endangered species, Conservation, Western United States, Environment, Earth Focus Gray wolves once ranged across North America. But by the 1930s, they were nearly extinct -- trapped, poisoned and hunted by ranchers, farmers, and government agents. With protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act, the wolf population rebounded. But wolves lost federal protection in 2011. Now, with hunting permitted in many Western states, the future of this once endangered species may again be in question. Can we live with wolves? Earth Focus travels to Montana and Wyoming to find out. http://news.linktv.org/videos/shrimp-and-smart-phones-the-toxic-side-of-profit?start=0 <p>This episode of Earth Focus looks at the dark side of shrimp and smart phone industries. Reports from Thailand, Bangladesh, and Indonesia uncover the brutal exploitation of people and the environment for profit.</p> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/shrimp-and-smart-phones-the-toxic-side-of-profit Environment, Sustainable seafood, Overfishing, Shrimp, Environmental degradation, Prawn, Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Tin The tiger prawn industry in Thailand exploits people and the environment. Small fish and juvenile sharks, caught by Thai trawlers operating illegally in foreign waters from Indonesia to Bangladesh, are ground into fishmeal for prawn food. As fishing stocks are depleted, local fishermen are affected. Thai trawlers operators often hire Burmese workers who are exploited and abused. The Thai prawn industry is the largest of its kind in the world and markets prawns to European consumers. Watch this original investigative report by Swed Watch, a Swedish organization reporting on Swedish business relations in developing countries. http://news.linktv.org/videos/raw-video-ultra-rare-tiger-cubs-spotted-in-sumatra?start=0 Cameras set up in Indonesia's still largely unexplored Sembilang National Park captured an extremely welcome sight for conservationists. A female Sumatran tiger padded through the rainforest, followed by her two young cubs, showing that the critically endangered species is still breeding in the area.<br /> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:56:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/raw-video-ultra-rare-tiger-cubs-spotted-in-sumatra Sumatran tiger, Indonesia, Sembilang National Park, Tiger, Critically Endangered, Endangered species, Wildlife conservation, Conservation, International Business Times Cameras set up in Indonesia's still largely unexplored Sembilang National Park captured an extremely welcome sight for conservationists. A female Sumatran tiger padded through the rainforest, followed by her two young cubs, showing that the critically endangered species is still breeding in the area. http://news.linktv.org/videos/shamans-apprentice?start=0 Deep in the jungles of Suriname, Dr. Mark Plotkin is racing against time. Here in the vast canopy of trees is a treasure of unknown dimension--the chemically rich and diverse plant life of the forest--the secrets of which could one day yield cures for our most troubling illnesses. But the world is standing outside the treasury door with a torch in its hand, hungry for land, gold, and timber. Mark Plotkin, a committed and passionate conservationist, has vowed to save this forest, acre by acre. For more than twenty years Mark has searched the Amazon for plants that heal. He is an ethnobotanist, a scientist who studies the relationship between indigenous people and plants. Inspired by the great explorer Richard Evans Schultes, Mark set out from Harvard on a mission to find a new treatment for diabetes, the disease that killed his two grandmothers. What Mark has found in those green and tangled forests has been more complex, more interesting than mere medicine. The Shaman&rsquo;s Apprentice charts the story of Mark&rsquo;s discoveries in his own words, and looks with fresh eyes at the astonishing ability of native people to manage their environment. Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:26:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/shamans-apprentice Mark Plotkin, Suriname, Ethnobotanist, Amazon Rainforest, Rare species, Shamanism, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Botany, Ethnobotany, Conservation Deep in the jungles of Suriname, Dr. Mark Plotkin is racing against time. Here is the Amazon of legend, where men become jaguars, where frogs cry along the riverbanks with voices of lonely women, where fire-feathered birds screech and click in a thicket of vines. Here are remote tribes of Amerindians, eighteenth century African villages, and forest people living in the Stone Age. Here in the vast canopy of trees is a treasure of unknown dimension--the chemically rich and diverse plant life of the forest--the secrets of which could one day yield cures for our most troubling illnesses. But the world is standing outside the treasury door with a torch in its hand, hungry for land, gold, and timber. Mark Plotkin, a committed and passionate conservationist, has vowed to save this forest, acre by acre. For more than twenty years Mark has searched the Amazon for plants that heal. He is an ethnobotanist, a scientist who studies the relationship between indigenous people and plants. Inspired by the great explorer Richard Evans Schultes, Mark set out from Harvard on a mission to find a new treatment for diabetes, the disease that killed his two grandmothers. What Mark has found in those green and tangled forests has been more complex, more interesting than mere medicine. The Shaman’s Apprentice charts the story of Mark’s discoveries in his own words, and looks with fresh eyes at the astonishing ability of native people to manage their environment. People of the forests have become sophisticated chemists by necessity, utilizing plants for every aspect of their lives. Often, the entire knowledge of a tribe resides in the mind of the shaman - the tribe’s doctor and spiritual leader - the man or woman who is this generation's link in a long cultural chain that stretches back into pre-history. They encode their wisdom in the language of myth and dreams, and live in a world where magic is as ordinary as daylight. These shamans are the Rosetta stones of the Amazon. Only through them is it possible to interpret the bewildering profusion of botanical information collected by their people. But the shamans are also the most endangered species in all the Amazon. Marooned in time by the loss of traditional ways, many of the native healers have no apprentices. Most are old, and each shaman's death is a kind of extinction. It is these shamans that Mark seeks out, hoping to save their precious knowledge as one might save genetic material. We may desperately need this information in the future, to treat illnesses, to develop new foods, fiber, or industrial products, or to restore balance to our planet. The Shaman's Apprentice is a story of survival against the odds. It interweaves the luminous rain forest world of phenomena and legends with western science and the grim realities of extinction. In the story of one man's quest to preserve the ancient wisdom of our species, we find the intelligence, cooperation and hope that could save one of the most glorious places on Earth. http://news.linktv.org/videos/earth-focus-national-security-and-climate-change?start=0 The CIA now has a department to examine climate change as a national security issue. The rise of sea levels will displace densely-populated coasts, and the effects on agriculture and access to clean water will spark dangerous competition for resources. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/earth-focus-national-security-and-climate-change Climate change, National security, Military Intelligence, CIA, NASA, Environment, northwestern university, Arctic, Satellite, Current sea level rise The CIA now has a department to examine climate change as a national security issue. The rise of sea levels will displace densely-populated coasts, and the effects on agriculture and access to clean water will spark dangerous competition for resources. http://news.linktv.org/videos/the-fight-for-fish-lake-teztan-biny?start=0 This Earth Focus report sheds light on the struggle of the Tsilhqot'in and Xeni Gwet'in people of British Columbia, Canada to stop the construction of Prosperity Mine, a gold and copper mine proposed by Taseko Mines Ltd. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:35:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/the-fight-for-fish-lake-teztan-biny Chilcotin people, Taseko Mines, Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada, Xeni Gwet'in, Gold mining, Mining, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Indigenous peoples This Earth Focus report sheds light on the struggle of the Tsilhqot'in and Xeni Gwet'in people of British Columbia, Canada to stop the construction of Prosperity Mine, a gold and copper mine proposed by Taseko Mines Ltd. The mine would destroy Fish Lake (Teztan Biny), a body of water held held sacred by the Tsilhqot'in and Xeni Gwet'in people. The Lake is part of a pristine watershed that runs to the Fraser River. Featuring the film Blue Gold made by Canadian filmmaker Susan Smitten and her team to document the impact of the proposed mine on the environment and the cultural heritage of British Columbia's native people. An Earth Focus original report in collaboration with R.A.V.E.N (Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs), a Canadian charitable organization. http://news.linktv.org/videos/al-jazeera-correspondent-the-crying-forest?start=0 Rainforest activist Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria were murdered in May 2011, an apparent revenge attack after the couple repeatedly reported illegal logging and ranching. Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo follows their story. Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:56:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/al-jazeera-correspondent-the-crying-forest Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, Amazon Rainforest, Illegal logging, Brazil, Murder, Deforestation, Conservation, Activism, Nova Ipixuna, Environment Rainforest activist Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria were murdered in May, 2011. The killing was an apparent revenge attack after the couple repeatedly reported illegal logging and ranching. Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo follows the story of an activist who lived and died for the Amazon. http://news.linktv.org/videos/kenyans-reflect-on-legacy-of-wangari-maathai?start=0 Kenyans are in mourning following the recent death of Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai. Some shared their thoughts with VOA correspondent Gabe Joselow at a park in Nairobi that Maathai famously fought to defend. Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:25:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/kenyans-reflect-on-legacy-of-wangari-maathai Wangari Maathai, Kenya, Green Belt Movement, Nairobi, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Conservation, Environment, Ecology, Voice of America Kenyans are in mourning following the recent death of Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai. Some shared their thoughts with VOA correspondent Gabe Joselow at a park in Nairobi that Maathai famously fought to defend. http://news.linktv.org/videos/man-and-nature?start=331 In the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, indigenous people have sustainably harvested mangrove forests for their livelihood for generations. The UK's Ecologist TV investigates how their way of life is now threatened by mismanagement, corruption, and overexploitation. Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/man-and-nature Environment, Mozambique, Birdwatching, Sundarbans, Bangladesh, Mt. Mabu, Mangrove, Blind, Earth, Texas In the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, indigenous people have sustainably harvested mangrove forests for their livelihood for generations. The UK's Ecologist TV investigates how their way of life is now threatened by mismanagement, corruption and overexploitation.