Ontario’s Long Point – the world’s longest freshwater sand spit is today lush with forests and wetlands - however the area is threatened by a European invader - the phragmites plant

The people of Georgian Bay, Ontario, struggle to mitigate the impact of increasing numbers of cottagers and a new four-lane highway on the region’s endangered species

After years of conflict over logging in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia, communities looked to the past to learn how the environment, cultures and economies can thrive together

In this Striking Balance episode Atlantic Salmon are on the edge of extinction at Fundy Bay, New Brunswick but the staff at Fundy Biosphere Reserve are determined to nurse the population back to health

On the Bras d’Or Lake in Cape Breton, oyster farming has traditionally been a sustainable alternative to working in the coal or steel industries. Back in 2002 a parasite almost wiped out the oyster population, since then both traditional Mi’kmaq knowledge and western science have worked hand in ...

In Canada’s bear country, conservation solutions reveal how balance can be found between human life and wild nature. Set in the dramatic landscapes of Waterton, this film explores how communities learn to live alongside bears in one of North America’s most breathtaking protected regions. Through ...

Students conduct both social and scientific experiments at Redberry - a salt lake at the heart of a shrinking Saskatchewan community that’s determined to thrive in the face of industrial agriculture

n Striking Balance: Mont Saint-Hilaire viewers are transported to the primeval forests and shimmering glacial lake of Quebec’s iconic Biosphere Reserve, where ancient trees and rare wildlife like the resilient peregrine falcon make their home. Framed by the rhythms of nature and the pulse of near...

Longleaf Forever is a short documentary film that plunges viewers into one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet. Home to hundreds of rare plants and animals, longleaf pine forests once covered 90 million acres in the American South. Today, conservationists and land managers a...

Several widespread wildfires have occurred in the western United States in recent years, impacting many of our urban-wildland communities. At Pepperwood Preserve in Sonoma County, California, two major wildfires separated by only two years have burned through the landscape. How will this fire-ada...