The Nature of Things — Season 11

Nov 1970

The first in a four-part series entitled The Last Stand. The series looks at a variety of areas in the world set aside as specially protected areas of wilderness and natural wildlife. The first program is about western mountain parks and the work being done by biologists and scientists to save mountain wildlife.

Nov 1970

The Everglades, unique in the world, are dependent entirely on water. But the beautiful birds and animals in the park are threatened by land development and a new airport, whose drainage policies are drying up the area.

Nov 1970

The third in a four-part series entitled "The Last Stand." Point Pelee is a tiny peninsula in southwestern Ontario, jutting into Lake Erie, which contains a fresh water marsh full of wildlife of all kinds. It is also the last stronghold of the southern deciduous forest in Canada and contains southern species of plants and animals not found anywhere else in the country.

Nov 1970

The last in a four-part series entitled The Last Stand. This program looks at Sonoran Desert in US Southwest and in Mexico.

Dec 1970

The first in a three-part series entitled "A Sense of Time". This examines past and present ideas on questions of how old is universe.

Dec 1970

This program focuses on a new geophysical concept of our planet.

Dec 1970

Planet Earth has supported life for some three billion years; but Man, characterized by his powers of thought and other other intelligent faculties, has shown greatest development.

Feb 1971

Sociologists tell us that Great Lakes are basis for civilization around them. If lakes fail.

Feb 1971

Immediate implementation of pollution control in our Great Lakes is urgently needed if we are to preserve our most vital waterway.

Feb 1971

Population: Everybody's Baby" examines projected consequences of overpopulation and-controversy surrounding population control.

Mar 1971

Featuring a national opinion poll on public attitudes in Canada towards population growth.

Mar 1971

Dealing with McGill University Settlement Mental Health Unit project in Montreal..

Mar 1971

Psychiatry: Heavy Night

Mar 1971

A visit to Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute, where a disturbed teenager responds to treatment.

Apr 1971

A look at Vancouver-area encounter groups.