Vanishing and Re-emerging: Reviving Biological and Cultural Diversity
From: A World of Possibilities
Length: 00:54:57
Around the world, languages, cultures and ecosystems are disappearing at an alarming rate, erasing richness vital to our survival. Based on interviews conducted at a major international conference on biocultural diversity held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in April 2008, this program examines how diversity is also re-emerging even as the old ways are dying.
This program was funded by The Christensen Fund.
Tero Mustonen and Vyacheslav Shadrin, The Snowchange Cooperative, Finland; Head, Yukaghir Elders Council
Gary Paul Nabhan, Founder, Renewing Americas Food Traditions, Southwest Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US
Alejandro Argumedo, Founding Member and Co-Chair, Call of the Earth Steering Committee, Cusco, Peru
Eleanor Sterling, Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US
Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex, UK
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Piece Description
Around the world, languages, cultures and ecosystems are disappearing at an alarming rate, erasing richness vital to our survival. Based on interviews conducted at a major international conference on biocultural diversity held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in April 2008, this program examines how diversity is also re-emerging even as the old ways are dying.
This program was funded by The Christensen Fund.
Tero Mustonen and Vyacheslav Shadrin, The Snowchange Cooperative, Finland; Head, Yukaghir Elders Council
Gary Paul Nabhan, Founder, Renewing Americas Food Traditions, Southwest Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US
Alejandro Argumedo, Founding Member and Co-Chair, Call of the Earth Steering Committee, Cusco, Peru
Eleanor Sterling, Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US
Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex, UK
Broadcast History
Originally broadcast in 2008
Timing and Cues
Music in this program: open - “Cry of the Forest” by Cha-das-ska-dum Which-ta-lum - Soundings of the Planet; “Flametop Green” by Daniel Lanois - Anti Records; “A United Earth I” by Alan Stivell and Yousou N’Dour - Putamayo World Music; “The Sound is Fading” by Robbie Robertson - Capitol Records; “@ Ley” by Gjallarhorn - Vindauga Music Ltd.; “Juju In Those Strings (Big Mind Ambient Remix” by Eccodek - Festival Distribution Inc.
Additional Files
- Cuesheet (20110503_AWPcuesheet.pdf)
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