Shelter Me focuses on the success stories to bring more people into the shelters to give incredible animals a second chance. Shelter pets are helping returning War Veterans cope with debilitating injuries, they teach prison inmates new life lessons. Shelter Me is a program about redemption, hope, helping others and making a difference.
Because hummingbirds live their lives in fast forward, much of their fascinating world is typically lost to human perception. These tiny marvels dazzle and delight bird watchers all over the world, and NATURE reveals their stunning abilities as they have never been seen before.
Investigate the parallel stories of collapsing Pacific salmon populations and how biologists and engineers have become instruments in audacious experiments to replicate every stage of the fish’s life cycle in NATURE “Salmon: Running the Gauntlet.” Each desperate effort to save salmon has involved replacing their natural cycle of reproduction and death with a radically manipulated life history. Our once great runs of salmon are now conceived in laboratories, raised in tanks, driven in trucks and farmed in pens. NATURE goes beyond the ongoing debate over how to save an endangered species to expose a wildly creative, hopelessly complex and stunningly expensive approach to managing salmon.
Watch Nature, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 7pm.
Watch Salmon: Running the Gauntlet – Preview on PBS. See more from Nature.
Follow famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his wife, Meave, daughter Louise and their colleagues as they work in the arid northern regions of Kenya’s Turkana Basin to unravel the mysteries of human evolution. While one of the Leakeys’ goals is to demonstrate the complexity and truth of human evolution, they also seek to show how the qualities that we proudly call human were all born in Africa. The story that emerges in the film is exciting, emotional, contemplative, occasionally funny and, in the end, transforming. This is Africa at its most beautiful and harshest.
Winner of two International Wildlife Film Festival awards.
Watch Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 9pm.
Bones of Turkana press release.
