Improving Environment By Changing The World: Rewilding The Earth: Nurturing The Web Of Life

Ecosystems are collapsing and Dave Foreman is working to return large carnivores, "keystone species," like the wolf and the jaguar to the American West. Native American Dennis Martinez is a restorative ecologist, who would say the true "keystone species" has traditionally been indigenous humans. In this program, successful approaches to restoring habitat uncover two fascinating views of nature and our place in it.

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Dave Foreman, chairman of The WildLands Project and a member of the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. He is author of Confessions of an Eco-Warror. 

Dennis Martinez, who is of O'odham/Chicano heritage, is the founder of the Indigenous Peoples Restoration Network. He assists traditional communities with the restoration of tribal and ancestral lands. He is a restoration ecologist who researches the concept and practice of bio-cultural restoration, and the use of indigenous ecological knowledge in sustainable land management. 

Bioneers Series II: Improving Environment By Changing The World includes the following programs: 

• BN201 Part 1: Re-Imagining Design: Becoming Tools of Nature
• BN202 Part 2: Gaian Wonders of the Co-Evolutionary Dance
• BN203 Part 3: Environmental Justice – Rising from the Flames
• BN204 Part 4: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
• BN205 Part 5: Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an                            Agriculture of Relationships
• BN206 Part 6: Rewilding The Earth: Nurturing The Web Of Life Lunch
• BN1207 Part 7: Globalization: The Environment and Living Toward                   the Local
• BN208 Part 8: Knowledge From Intimacy: Revaluing The Feminine
• BN209 Part 9: Honoring the Heritage of Black Farmers on the Land
• BN210 Part 10First Nations and the Future of the Earth
• BN211 Part 11: Global Green Plan and Urban Design
• BN212 Part 12: The Age of Extinction and the Emerging                                     Environmental Health Movement
• BN213 Part 13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Alive

The Bioneers series consists of three sets of 13 programs each:

Bioneers Series I: The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Bioneers Series II "Improving Environment By Changing The World
Bioneers Series III

 Inspired by the philosophies of the Deep Ecology movement, the Bioneers are heroic examples of people living as if nature mattered. Join us as we look deeply into the magic and mystery of the convergence between leading-edge science and ancient wisdom for a Declaration of Interdependence for the new millennium. Though these programs were produced in the 1990s the contents of this series are timelessly relevant. 

HOST: Michael Toms     INTERVIEW DATE: 10/19/2000            PROGRAM NUMBER: BN206