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Orangutan Diary

There are approximately 600 orangutans being cared for day and night. Watch Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 6pm.

Deep in the Borneo rainforest, veterinarians and caregivers have a massive and emotional task ahead of them: rescuing and nursing the jungle’s most appealing — and most vulnerable — animals back to health. There are approximately 600 orangutans being cared for day and night at the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation Centre. Most have had traumatic lives, clinging to survival as rainforests are burned around them, while others are snatched from the wild to be sold as pets. Every day is a challenge for the team as they care for the orphans and deal with the human crises of life in a rainforest hospital.

Watch Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 6pm.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of ©Simon Bell

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Bears of the Last Frontier: City of Bears

Close encounters with bears. Watch Nature Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 7pm.

Join adventurer and bear biologist Chris Morgan on a year-long motorcycle odyssey deep into Alaska’s bear country to explore the resiliency and adaptability of these majestic animals as they struggle to make a living in five dramatically diverse Alaskan ecosystems: coastal, urban, mountain, tundra and pack ice.

Episode One – City of Bears
Bear biologist Chris Morgan sets up camp at a remote spot in the heart of the Alaskan wilderness, alongside the largest concentration of grizzlies in the world. It is June in the Alaska Peninsula. The sun sets well into night and bears are taking advantage of the long days to feed, mate and raise new cubs. Morgan tracks their progress as they feast on the riches of the season and re-establish the complex hierarchical social dynamics of bear society. Along the way, he experiences close encounters with bears, observing brutal battles among males during mating season as well as tender moments between a grizzly mom and her cubs. (Part one of three.)

Watch Nature Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 7pm.

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Kissimmee Basin: The Northern Everglades

Take a trip up the Kissimmee Valley back through time. Watch Monday, July 9, 2012 at 2 & 8pm on KCPT2.

Travel with filmmaker Elam Stoltzfus along the Kissimmee River and surrounding regions. Meet the “Keepers of the Land” and experience a “sense of place” in the vast open spaces in the cattle country of Florida‘s private and public lands.

Throughout the centuries, the Everglades have inspired strong emotion and debate among soldiers and poets, politicians and citizens. Its history is as broad and sprawling as the “River of Grass” itself. Although many stories have been told about the Everglades – from drainage to restoration – few have been told about where it all begins: the Kissimmee River Basin. Restoration and protection of the natural values of this vast, watery landscape may well hold the key to restoration of the Greater Everglades ecosystem.

The Kissimmee Basin: The Northern Everglades invites you to take a trip up the Kissimmee Valley back through time to discover the well-reasoned, yet unforeseen consequences of a flood control project that turned the 103 mile-long meandering river full of life, into a 52-mile long, multi-million dollar over-engineered channel that drained the surrounding wetlands, caused the disappearance of large flocks of wading birds, and a significant decline of an abundant freshwater fishery.

“Kissimmee Basin area … that’s one of the areas of Florida that you can still go to and, if you look for it, it’s there. You can see Florida just like it was seventy-five, a hundred, or more years ago.” Patrick Smith, Author, A Land Remembered.

Watch Monday, July 9, 2012 at 2 & 8pm on KCPT2.

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FOOD FORWARD: Urban Agriculture

Edith Floyd, Detroit, Michigan, drives her shiny new orange Kabota tractor down her street, where she is reclaiming the empty lots for growing food. Watch Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 7:30pm.

From the rooftop farms of New York City to the food deserts of Detroit, join FOOD FORWARD to explore the explosion of urban agriculture across America. Meet food rebel John Mooney, whose space-age hydroponic farm on top of a historic building in the West Village of Manhattan is a window into the future of rooftop farming. In Milwaukee, meet the biggest name in urban agriculture, Will Allen, who inspires a new generation of aquaponic innovators. Learn about one woman’s transition from hanging out to harvesting food on the streets of West Oakland. Finally, in Detroit, spend time with 18-year-old Travis Roberts, who grew up watching the city struggle with increasing urban blight. In trouble and more than 100 pounds overweight, he discovered the city’s urban agriculture movement and found a new purpose in life through urban chicken farming. He’s joined by a cast of powerful characters who are rebuilding their city, block by block.

Watch Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 7:30pm.

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