The Film: The Rewilders
Around the globe, fierce and passionate individuals are taking audacious measures to save a planet in crisis. Since 1970, the planet has lost 60% of its biodiversity. The most dire consequences are accelerated global warming and a potential mass extinction event affecting millions of plant and animal species. But there is a solution gaining ground: rewilding the planet.
The Rewilders tells the tale of pioneering conservationists on three continents, working tirelessly as they galvanize the global movement of rewilding, one species and one landscape at a time.
Through all these stories, it is clear that the real environmental heroes are the animals. These keystone species, restored to their habitats, create a cascade effect that results in greater ecosystem resilience. Leading scientists, including Yale’s Oswald Schmitz, contend that this enhanced resilience, simply put, equates to greater ability to sequester or store more carbon and ultimately reduce the earth’s atmospheric temperature.
Rewilding builds upon past successes of conservation, but goes beyond the preservation of intact ecosystems, to reclaim degraded lands and extirpated species, and allow nature to heal itself. Indigenous peoples across the globe are key drivers of this movement that creates economic opportunity, brings people closer to the wild, and aligns with the United Nation’s 30 x 30 mandate, which aims to protect 30% of the planet’s land and water by 2030.
Told through the lens of on-the-ground rewilders from across the planet, this intimate, visually spectacular documentary showcases the animals that help to keep our ecosystems thriving, and the trials and tribulations such work entails. The Rewilders is a call to action for humanity to change its wilderness paradigm.
Another short film from Salmon Parks will screen prior to The Rewilders.
Panel Discussion
Following the screening, we’re hosting a panel discussion that includes:
– Marlene Rodgers – Filmmaker
– Mark Angelo – Producer & Conservationist
– Eric Angel – General Manager, Salmon Parks
– Moderator: Brynna Kagawa-Visentin – Campaigner, CPAWS-BC
