Season 2 | Native Planet

Season 2

Episode 1 — Rapa Nui
Learn about the remote south pacific island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to see how the recent growth in tourism is threatening the sanctity of its ancient Polynesian treasures, the indigenous Rapa Nui people and the environment.

Episode 2 — Chile
Travel 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.

Episode 3 — Namibia
Learn why the San people of Namibia, the oldest culture on the planet, have created a vast conservation area to protect themselves from the outside world.

Episode 4 — Canada/Lake Winnipeg
Travel to Manitoba, in the heart of the Canadian Prairies, to see why Lake Winnipeg is dying and how Indigenous knowledge can offer a means to ensure its survival.

Episode 5 — Louisiana
In the Bayous of southern Louisiana see how three indigenous tribes are adapting to rising sea levels that are slowly sinking their communities.

Episode 6 — Mexico
Travel 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.