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 ProjectsBiodiversity: Video"Biodiversity: The Variety of Life" explains what biodiversity is and why we should protect it. This film uses maps, diagrams and examples to introduce new terms and concepts, including fragmentation, linkage, and viable population, to explain how ecosystems are dynamic and varied. It focuses on the North Cascades ecosystem, but presents general concepts.
"State of the Planet" is a 3-hour BBC Bristol film on the biodiversity crisis made for Discovery Communications in 2000. It examines the rise in extinctions and endangered species and causes such as "islandization" or isolation of habitat surrounded by development; it profiles Hawaii as leading the world in extinct and endangered species, its beautiful natural heritage being destroyed by exotic species and disappearance of native forests. The final hour of this film series, "The Future of Life," makes clear that if we do not act soon, great natural treasures will be lost.
"Natural Connections," produced by Howard Rosen for PBS in 2000, is a one-hour examination of the failure of the United States and other developed countries to protect nature. It links extravagant and unthinking lifestyles with the loss of biodiversity and proposes changes that will have direct effects in terms of preserving species.
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