I recently received this memo from Trey Byus at Lindblad Expeditions, an eco-cruise line that I occasionally work for as a SCUBA diver, underwater videographer and scientific lecturer. Although the show outlined below does not focus structly on the marine environment. I thought it might be of interest to SCUBA divers and fellow "kelp huggers" around the world. Trey gave me permission to paraphrase and quote from the notice below:
An exciting new program premiers this week (Oct 2nd-8th) entitled "Wild Chronicles." It's a 42-part series that is the result of an innovative collaboration between the World Wildlife Fund, WLIW New York, Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Mission Programs, the grant-making arm of the National Geographic Society. The half-hour, magazine-style show is hosted by Boyd Matson, long-time host of National Geographic's Explorer series, and will cover the work of a broad alliance of scientists, adventurers, conservationists and others.
Every week Wild Chronicles delivers compelling stories with a global perspective on the wonders and challenges of our world. The partners will tell the story of our planet from the vantage of those who have traversed its passageways, probed its scientific mysteries and long advocated for its protection. The direct connection of World Wildlife Fund, Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Mission Programs to explorers, researchers and scientists in the wild ensures crucial pipeline to the people and stories viewers want to see. Given that Boyd will host some of the programs from our ships, we're obviously looking forward to the exposure.
Perhaps even more exciting is the fact that it has been such a long time since there has been "nature show" with a focus on conservation that has been picked up so widely by PBS. In fact, all top 30 markets in the US picked up the show. Most stations are airing on Sunday evening at 7:30pm (huge family audience). Check out this website for more information: http://www.wliw.org/productions/wildchronicles.html For your local times you'll have to dig a little at http://www.pbs.org.
Trey requested that Lindblad staff offer ideas for future episodes. I was able to send him a number of ideas ranging from the recovery of the black sea bass off southern California to volunteer scientific diver organizations like the Catalina Conservancy Divers (http:/www.ccd.org) to efforts by the Santa Catalina Island Island Conservancy (http://www.catalinaconservancy.org) in conserving the terrestrial resources of the island.
An exciting new program premiers this week (Oct 2nd-8th) entitled "Wild Chronicles." It's a 42-part series that is the result of an innovative collaboration between the World Wildlife Fund, WLIW New York, Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Mission Programs, the grant-making arm of the National Geographic Society. The half-hour, magazine-style show is hosted by Boyd Matson, long-time host of National Geographic's Explorer series, and will cover the work of a broad alliance of scientists, adventurers, conservationists and others.
Every week Wild Chronicles delivers compelling stories with a global perspective on the wonders and challenges of our world. The partners will tell the story of our planet from the vantage of those who have traversed its passageways, probed its scientific mysteries and long advocated for its protection. The direct connection of World Wildlife Fund, Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Mission Programs to explorers, researchers and scientists in the wild ensures crucial pipeline to the people and stories viewers want to see. Given that Boyd will host some of the programs from our ships, we're obviously looking forward to the exposure.
Perhaps even more exciting is the fact that it has been such a long time since there has been "nature show" with a focus on conservation that has been picked up so widely by PBS. In fact, all top 30 markets in the US picked up the show. Most stations are airing on Sunday evening at 7:30pm (huge family audience). Check out this website for more information: http://www.wliw.org/productions/wildchronicles.html For your local times you'll have to dig a little at http://www.pbs.org.
Trey requested that Lindblad staff offer ideas for future episodes. I was able to send him a number of ideas ranging from the recovery of the black sea bass off southern California to volunteer scientific diver organizations like the Catalina Conservancy Divers (http:/www.ccd.org) to efforts by the Santa Catalina Island Island Conservancy (http://www.catalinaconservancy.org) in conserving the terrestrial resources of the island.
