conservation

SourceCode collaborates with Mother Jones Magazine for a special episode on the State of the Oceans. Join Mike Robbins for a look at how the fishing industry, which regulates itself, is destroying the fisheries and endangering our food supply. Dr. Pauly on the need to protect the ocean, with a park system. And Paul Watson flies the Jolly Roger as he rams Japanese whalers and takes on seal hunters in an effort to save the ocean's wildlife. Plus, a gripping video from Britain's Environmental Justice Foundation, from a coastal village in Africa terrorized by illegal fishing corporations.

Writer Ashley Shelby details how the impacts of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska continue and how Exxon, despite a federal jury ordering it pay $5.2 billion in punitive damages to fishers and natives, still fights the verdict. "Enviro Close-Up" explores issues such as global warming, renewable energy, nuclear proliferation and globalization.

Tzeporah Berman, co-founder and program director of ForestEthics, describes its mission of protecting endangered forests and wild places, wildlife and human well-being, with a major emphasis on climate change. ForestEthics also focuses on industries that use products from wild places and has transformed the environmental practices of many of them. "Enviro Close-Up" explores issues such as global warming, renewable energy, nuclear proliferation and globalization.