Jumbo Wild Documentary Free Online

[Niklas Terki]

Jaggedsnow-capped peaks erupt from a sea of clouds as a lone man in black appears in the opening scene of Jumbo Wild, his back to the camera. (See trailer below.) He is dwarfed by the sheer size of the rugged backdrop of the British Columbia wilderness. If those who are looking to profit from developing this iconic scene are successful, this view and Jumbo Valley will be forever altered. The Jumbo Glacier Resort controversy, which has stretched on for about 24 years, is representative of what is happening to the last of our wilderness areas worldwide. As filmmaker Nick Waggoner states in this short documentary by Sweetgrass Films, although this is an issue that may seem black and white, the multitude of voices involved demonstrate that this lengthy battle and learning process is not that simple.

Travelling to Africa, we will examine the latest science that reveals that elephants can suffer from a form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. We will uncover the importance of the relationship between mothers and their babies and highlight the extraordinary work of The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya who rescue orphaned elephants and return them to the wild.

We now know that elephants are highly intelligent animals and can only survive in complex social groups. These realizations have resulted in some dramatic changes in the ways elephants are cared for and protected.

Jumbo lived under conditions that are unacceptable today. But his giant presence made people think about elephants and sparked the first glimmers of interest in elephant behaviour. A century and a half later, wild elephants will hopefully benefit from our greater understanding of these amazing animals.

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Shot in a remote rainforest setting, Chimp Empire exposes facets of chimp life that have never been seen on film before. (No, not even in that other blissfully revelatory nature show you love to binge.) The Ngogo community is the largest known group of chimpanzees in the world, and at the time of filming this series from director James Reed (My Octopus Teacher), it had splintered into two competing factions. Filmmakers were present on the front lines for the life-or-death fight for supremacy between the Central and Western groups, making Chimp Empire a nature documentary that feels more like a historical conquest epic or a cutthroat boardroom thriller.

This six-part series from BBC Studios (and narrated by Morgan Freeman) blends wildlife footage with cosmic special effects to tell the story of how everything in the natural world is connected. Hit play to get up close and personal with an Alaskan brown bear and her cubs; a cheetah sprinting across the Serengeti; and penguins in the waters of the Southern Ocean. Interspersed with these stories is an even bigger tale, one that explores the celestial forces that set the stage for our entire solar system.

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Raincoast has partnered with Take A Stand: Youth for Conservation to present Season 3 of our online education series, Coastal Insights. Each webinar will be live streamed through our Facebook and Youtube channels.

Coastal Insights Season 3 focuses on hope, equity, and advocacy in a world changed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Raincoast and Take A Stand will present six hour-long interactive live-streamed webinars which will showcase youth who are making change despite the significant challenges faced over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Gabrielle Gelderman (she/her) is a third-generation settler born and raised on Treaty 6 territory in amiskwaciwskahikan / Edmonton. She is an organizer and co-founder of Climate Justice Edmonton and currently working as a Spiritual Care Practitioner (Chaplain) in both hospital and social movement settings. Last year, while completing a Master of Theological Studies, she conducted thesis research on climate grief in young organizers. The most unexpected application of her work so far has been the memes she makes about climate grief and healing! You can check them out at @theclimatechaplain.

Dr. Jennifer Mervyn was acknowledged by CAMH as one of the 150 Canadians making a difference in mental health. She is a Registered Psychologist offering individual, family, and group counselling and mental health treatment. She has an extensive background in trauma and substance abuse and utilizes innovative, culturally informed, therapeutic approaches in her work. Jennifer Is Mtis, mother of four, and strong advocate for the indigenous community. She consults, teaches, and trains on Trauma Informed Practice and policy across multiple sectors including policing, education, and healthcare nationwide.

As an educator and photographer, Arvin Singh Dang is interested in critically examining the incentives and structures around the world that drive power, access, and policy, and the erosion of traditional ways of knowing and being. He attributes this focus to the juxtapositions he observed as a young adult while working and traveling through different regions and industries. With his partner, he recently authored the Oxford Theory of Knowledge course book, which foregrounds the politics of knowledge and makes power relations visible through a decolonial lens. Since immigrating to Canada he has worked on four documentary teams focusing on Indigenous Sovereignty, direct action, and land defense.

Climate change and environmental degradation is asking us to care about all of the inhabitants of planet Earth. Art and film can play a tremendous role in conservation as powerful tools for storytelling and creating emotional connections. In this webinar, the hosts and guest speakers will explore how they have used art and film to expand the collective awareness of environmental and social justice issues. We are far more willing to protect what we love, and facilitate changes, when we have a genuine connection to place and to nature. Artists and filmmakers can be powerful agents of promoting positive change. The webinar will culminate with the hosts laying out some simple steps to show how students can use art for the Student Innovation Challenge Contest.

The impacts of climate change have impacted people all over the world, including climate instability, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and flooding. The consequences for wildlife, ecosystems, and humans are detrimental. Yet the various impacts of climate change are not felt evenly across our society, and it is clear that climate change disproportionately threatens the greatest risk to those that are most vulnerable. Therefore, meaningful actions or solutions to adapt or become resilient to climate change and its innumerable downstream consequences must address this equity challenge. In this webinar, our hosts and guests will share their views on change using intersectional and intergenerational lenses. We will explore how we can make communities more resilient, how social justice is connected to environmental justice, why it is so important to have BIPOC representation in change spaces and what equity and diversity look like in the environmental movement.

Augusta Senenssie is a British policy consultant and researcher working at the intersections of environmental, displacement and indigenous policy. Seeking to use non-traditional research methods to influence the transformation of policy priorities, she founded and heads research at Walinda Lingo, an ethnographic research consultancy specialising in disparate and indigenous communities across Africa and the Pacific. Fully commissioned, her team members are currently conducting field studies across West Africa in anticipation of their Spring 2022 launch. Her studies with First Nation people across Australia, the Sahel, rural Southern African communities, African refugees trapped in the Mediterranean, genocide survivors and the Maasai people of Tanzania, has allowed her to consult with UN Institutions, DfID (now FCDO), AU and EU agencies and the Zambian Ministry for Youth amongst others, having written and spoken extensively about the importance of the meaningful inclusion of disparate narratives within global policy formation and more recently, in guaranteeing sustainable peace. She is a Youth Advisor for Plan International UK, The UK Department for International Development and was a Global Ambassador for World Sustainable Development. Her journal articles on the potential uses of First Nation yarns in Australian Environmental Policy and European Duplicity in global conflict & resource insecurity will be published later this year.

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