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The first in a four-part series entitled The Last Stand. The series looks at a variety of areas in the world set aside as specially protected areas of wilderness and natural wildlife. The first program is about western mountain parks and the work being done by biologists and scientists to save mountain wildlife.
The Everglades, unique in the world, are dependent entirely on water. But the beautiful birds and animals in the park are threatened by land development and a new airport, whose drainage policies are drying up the area.
The third in a four-part series entitled "The Last Stand." Point Pelee is a tiny peninsula in southwestern Ontario, jutting into Lake Erie, which contains a fresh water marsh full of wildlife of all kinds. It is also the last stronghold of the southern deciduous forest in Canada and contains southern species of plants and animals not found anywhere else in the country.
The last in a four-part series entitled The Last Stand. This program looks at the Sonoran Desert in the U.S. Southwest and in Mexico. It contains an enormous variety of animal life and represents adaptation by both plant and animal life to a harsh environment where competition is keen and only the most successful can survive.
The first in a three-part series entitled "A Sense of Time". This episode examines past and present ideas on the questions of how old is the universe.
This program focuses on a new geophysical concept of our planet.
Planet Earth has supported life for some three billion years; but Man, characterized by his powers of thought and other other intelligent faculties, has shown the greatest development during his 500,000-years existence. Can he assume his role of responsibility to protect his life-giving biosphere?
Sociologists tell us that the Great Lakes are the basis for the civilization around them. If the lakes fail, so will we. The program explores the concept that we must cease to think of land and water as separate worlds, and instead treat them as a unity with an international plan for management.
Immediate implementation of pollution control in our Great Lakes is urgently needed if we are to preserve our most vital waterway. But what are the implications of such action?
Population: Everybody's Baby" examines the projected consequences of overpopulation and-the controversy surrounding population control.
Featuring a national opinion poll on public attitudes in Canada towards population growth.
Dealing with the McGill University Settlement Mental Health Unit project in Montreal.
Second in a series on the development and potential of psychiatry for the masses, focusing on informal youth clinics established in a low-income area of Montreal.
A visit to Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute, where a disturbed teenager responds to treatment.
A look at Vancouver-area encounter groups.
