Striking Balance

Documentary · 2020 · 2 Seasons
TV-PG
A look at how people in nine of Canada's breathtaking UNESCO biosphere reserves are overcoming great challenges to create a sustainable future.
S01:E01 - Long Point
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S01:E01 - Long Point

52 min
TV-PG

Ontario's Long Point, the world's longest freshwater sand spit, is today lush with forests and wetlands. An invasive plant, phragmites, is its biggest threat.

S01:E02 - Clayoquot Sound
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S01:E02 - Clayoquot Sound

52 min
TV-PG

After years of conflict over logging in Clayoquot Sound, communities look to the past to learn how the environment, cultures and economies can thrive for hundreds of years to come.

S01:E03 - Mont Saint-Hilaire
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S01:E03 - Mont Saint-Hilaire

50 min
TV-PG

The old-growth forest and pristine glacial lake of Mont Saint-Hilaire are cherished by the communities that surround it. But unchecked growth threatens the very mountain they love.

S01:E04 - Bras d'Or
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S01:E04 - Bras d'Or

51 min
TV-PG

On the Bras d'Or Lake of Cape Breton Island, oyster farming was seen as a sustainable alternative to working in coal and steel. But a parasite ravaged the oyster population.

S01:E05 - Georgian Lake
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S01:E05 - Georgian Lake

53 min
TV-PG

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

S01:E06 - Redberry Lake
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S01:E06 - Redberry Lake

51 min
TV-PG

Students conduct 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.

S01:E07 - Fundy
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S01:E07 - Fundy

52 min
TV-PG

The Inner Bay of Fundy's population of Atlantic salmon is teetering on the edge of extinction, but the people of the Fundy Biosphere Reserve are determined to bring it back.

S01:E08 - Waterton
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S01:E08 - Waterton

51 min
TV-PG

Grizzly bears have been increasingly protected in Alberta since 2006, challenging ranchers of the Waterton Biosphere Reserve to find new ways to coexist with this powerful animal.

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