Striking Balance

Striking Balance

8 Episodes

Striking Balance - the documentary series that travels across Canada - using aerial photography, motion capture, time-lapse and nature photography to create a stunning representation of the country's Biosphere Reserves.
These Reserves are set up in areas of global environmental significance, those that run them make an ongoing commitment to the UN to strive for sustainability. Biosphere Reserves are not parks and they have no legal authority. They are places where people have been inspired to find ways to live and work in harmony with nature.

Join the team on this epic journey that just might change the way you think about the natural world, and our place in it

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Striking Balance
  • Striking Balance - Fundy

    Episode 1

    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

  • Striking Balance - Clayoquot

    Episode 2

    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

  • Striking Balance - Long Point

    Episode 3

    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

  • Striking Balance - Mont Saint-Hilaire

    Episode 4

    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...

  • Striking Balance - Bras d’Or

    Episode 5

    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 ...

  • Striking Balance - Georgian Bay

    Episode 6

    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

  • Striking Balance - Redberry

    Episode 7

    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

  • Striking Balance - Waterton

    Episode 8

    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 ...