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Native Planet

In a fight for mother earth, Host Simon Baker travels across a Native Planet and goes deep inside indigenous communities passionately defending their way of life against overwhelming environmental threats.

  • Canada
    Sunday, March 22
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    From his home in the Squamish Nation, host Simon Baker traces the path of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, from the Oil Sands in Alberta to the tanker terminal planned for Kitimat, BC., to understand why First Nations are opposed.

 

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  • Canada
    Monday, March 16
    4:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    From his home in the Squamish Nation, host Simon Baker traces the path of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, from the Oil Sands in Alberta to the tanker terminal planned for Kitimat, BC., to understand why First Nations are opposed.
  • Ecuador
    Sunday, March 15
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Simon Baker travels to Ecuador and deep into the Amazon jungle to meet one Aboriginal tribe waging an international fight to keep oil companies and their government off their territory
  • Ecuador
    Monday, March 9
    4:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Host Simon Baker travels to Ecuador and deep into the Amazon jungle to meet one Aboriginal tribe waging an international fight to keep oil companies and their government off their territory
  • New Zealand
    Sunday, March 8
    1:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Host Simon Baker travels to New Zealand's North Island to see how science and indigenous knowledge are combining to breathe life back into a sacred lake decimated by years of industrial pollution.
  • New Zealand
    Monday, March 2
    4:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Host Simon Baker travels to New Zealand's North Island to see how science and indigenous knowledge are combining to breathe life back into a sacred lake decimated by years of industrial pollution.
  • Mexico
    Sunday, March 1
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Simon Baker travels deep into the remote Mezquital region of Northern Mexico where once forgotten indigenous communities are now caught in a battle between drug cartels and Mexico's military police.
  • Mexico
    Monday, February 23
    4:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Simon Baker travels deep into the remote Mezquital region of Northern Mexico where once forgotten indigenous communities are now caught in a battle between drug cartels and Mexico's military police.
  • Louisiana
    Sunday, February 22
    1:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Simon Baker travels to the Bayous of southern Louisiana to see how three indigenous tribes are adapting to rising sea levels that are slowly sinking their communities.
  • Louisiana
    Monday, February 16
    4:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Simon Baker travels to the Bayous of southern Louisiana to see how three indigenous tribes are adapting to rising sea levels that are slowly sinking their communities.
  • Manitoba
    Sunday, February 15
    1:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Simon Baker travels to Manitoba, in the heart of the Canadian Prairies, to see why the world's tenth largest lake is dying and how indigenous knowledge can provide a means to ensure its survival.
  • Manitoba
    Monday, February 9
    4:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Simon Baker travels to Manitoba, in the heart of the Canadian Prairies, to see why the world's tenth largest lake is dying and how indigenous knowledge can provide a means to ensure its survival.
  • Namibia
    Sunday, February 8
    1:00 pm on FNX 9.3
    Simon Baker travels to Namibia to learn why the San people, the oldest culture on the planet, have created a vast conservation area to protect themselves from the outside world.
  • Namibia
    Monday, February 2
    4:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Simon Baker travels to Namibia to learn why the San people, the oldest culture on the planet, have created a vast conservation area to protect themselves from the outside world.
  • Chile
    Sunday, February 1
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Simon Baker travels to the top of the Andes in northern Chile where a massive new mining project threatens the sacred glaciers of the Colla people, the only source of water in one of the driest paces on earth.