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
The following conversations were also recorded at the conference, but were not included in the full program.
Luisa Maffi, Ph.D, Director of Terralingua
Peter Brosius, Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia
Jessica Brown, Senior Vice-President for International Programs with Quebec-Labrador Foundation
Amber Namaka Whitehead, Ecologist, and Scott Kekuewa Kikiloi, Cultural Assets Manager,Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii
Ashish Kotari, Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group, Pune, India
Iain Ken MacDonald, Program in International Development Studies, University of Toronto
Michel Pimbert, Director, Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity and Livelihoods Program, International Institute for Environment and Development, London
David Rapport and Luisa Maffi, Principal, EcoHealth Consulting; and Director, Terralingua
Alaka Wali, Field Museum, Chicago
(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Gregg McVicar
Associate Producers: Naihma Deady, Matt Fidler
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Field Engineers: Jon Kalish, Neil Harvey
Special Thanks: Luisa Maffi, Director, Terralingua.org for editorial help. Gleb Raygorodetsky, The Christensen Fund, for logistical support.
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.
Duration: 55:00 minutes
University of Florida Biocultural Diversity Mapping Project
Renewing America's Food Traditions - RAFT
Call of the Earth, Llamado de la Tierra
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation’s activities integrate scientific research, education, and outreach so that people, themselves major catalysts in the rapid loss of biodiversity, will become participants in its conservation.
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