Documentary: Science & Nature

Is it possible, considering the many obstacles, to stop global warming, or at least reduce its harm? Anticipating the important United Nations Climate Change Conference starting December 7 in Copenhagen, Carbon Hunters delves into the controversial, little-understood, yet booming industry of carbon credit trading as a potentially workable mechanism towards solving what most people now acknowledge as the greatest crisis facing the planet: global warming. From India to the Phillipines, we follow Carbon Hunter Shawn Burns in this fascinating one-hour documentary for CBC's "Doc Zone." Distribution by BBC Worldwide.

End of an Era follows the story of Bjossa, the last killer whale in captivity in Vancouver, as she is prepared to be sent to Sea World in San Diego.

Vancouver was the first city to display killer whales for public viewing, and the documentary recounts the public furor and emotion of the decades that followed, leading up to Bjossa's emotional farewell.

Toxic Legacies focuses on the work of anthropologist Elizabeth Guillette who studied the effects of pesticides on the children of Yaqui Indian farmers in Mexico.

This documentary follows a landmark grizzly bear study in the Canadian Rockies, centered in Banff National Park.

With human development encroaching on one of the last habitats of the grizzly, the study team looks for ways to preserve the habitat of the great bear in this magnificent wilderness setting.

Mulji Modha was the world's very first Crocodile researcher and is a world authority on the ecology and behaviour of the Nile crocodile.

After living almost alone for two years on a tiny island in the heart of Africa, he came closer than anyone else to understanding these animals that have for centuries struck terror into the human race. The documentary follows his return to Africa and his encounters with the great beasts.