Films Included: <ul><li>Polar Bear 360</li><li>The Sea Turtle Arribada</li><li>The Witness Is a Whale</li><li>Transmission</li><li>Aquariums: The Dark Hobby</li><li>Virtual Recorded Filmmaker Q&amp;A </li></ul>Total Run Time = 178 minutes

Journey with us to the rocky beaches of Hudson Bay to experience the changing of seasons with one of the most iconic predators on planet Earth: the polar bear. Polar Bear 360 is a fully immersive 360-degree virtual Explore: Wildlife encounter that brings you nose to nose with the beloved Ice Bear as he waits for sea ice to form and the hunting season to begin. Learn about the challenges that confront polar bears in the face of our changing climate, and about the things we can do to make changes for the better.

Polar Bear 360

Polar Bear 360 is a fully immersive virtual Explore: Wildlife encounter that brings you nose to nose with the beloved Ice Bear. Learn about how climate change presents ever changing challenges for these bears, and what we can do to help.

A detective story spanning 60 years and half the globe, The Witness Is a Whale documents the uncovering of a massive illegal and secret slaughter of over 200,000 whales by the Soviet Union and Japan in the 1960’s, an act described by scientists as “one of the greatest environmental crimes of the 20th century.” Using interviews with Soviet era whaling scientists and whalers, contemporary conservation biologists from around the world, along with rare personal archival material, The Witness Is a Whale tells this story for the first time. What starts as an exposure of Soviet illegal whaling leads into a larger and darker story, as former Soviet whalers accuse Japan of also secretly killing whales, an act that Japan has never confessed to, even now as they reinstate commercial whaling. The ramifications of removing so many whales from the ocean are revealed with examples of whales exhibiting both intimate and previously undocumented behavior. This is accompanied by descriptions of the successful recovery of many whale populations and our increasing scientific understanding of their importance in ocean ecosystems.

The Witness Is a Whale

This detective story uncovers a massive illegal and secret slaughter of over 200,000 whales by the Soviet Union and Japan in the 1960’s, an act described by scientists as “one of the greatest environmental crimes of the 20th century.”

Doctors, farmers, biologists, & volunteers come together to fight a deadly disease threatening both wild & domestic sheep, in this feature-length documentary.

Transmission

Doctors, farmers, biologists, & volunteers come together to fight a deadly disease threatening both wild & domestic sheep.

Ocean conservation group WILDCOAST has made massive waves of impact conserving coastlines, coral reefs, wetlands, whale breeding lagoons, underwater parks and more. In this short film, we watch the story of sea turtle conservation success as WILDCOAST helps protect 22.5 miles of coastline in Oaxaca, Mexico -- the most important olive ridley sea turtle nesting beaches in the world. After near extinction, 72 million sea turtle hatchlings have been born on these beaches since 2017. Witness an arribada, a mass nesting, where tens of thousands of female sea turtles swim thousands of miles to return to the place of their birthright. It’s a miracle to behold. This short film shows how a small dedicated group of people can collaborate to make a massive impact. Founded in 2000, WILDCOAST helps conserve 38 million acres of coastal and ocean habitats, coral reefs, sea turtle nesting beaches, mangrove forests, wetlands and whale breeding lagoons in Mexico and California. GoPro For A Cause and Kind Humans partnered with WILDCOAST to create The Sea Turtle Arribada, a stunning short film that tells the story of WILDCOAST’s sea turtle conservation in Oaxaca, Mexico.

The Sea Turtle Arribada

Witness an arribada (a mass nesting of sea turtles on an Oaxacan beach) that ocean conservation group, WILDCOAST, protects, and see how a small group of dedicated people have a massive impact on an endangered species survival.

In Hawaii, a group of Native Hawaiians and conservationists struggle politically to protect the exotic fish being looted from the reefs. Turtles, whales, and dolphins are all protected, but not the fish. Now many verge on extinction. 28 million fish are in the aquarium trade pipeline at any given time. They undergo bladder piercing, fin cutting and starvation for shipment and reach the mainland dead or dying. They would have lived up to forty years on a reef. Fish species are in crisis worldwide and many are caught with cyanide and dynamite.

Aquariums: The Dark Hobby

Hawaii is ground zero in the global struggle to save marine wildlife. Hawaiian Elders, conservationists, and scientists battle aquarium fish collectors to protect species that are targets of a trade worth billions.

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