About this series: Going into its 7th sea­son, TERRA: The Nature of Our World is proud to bring you sto­ries from around our planet – vignettes of peo­ple, places, and all sizes and shapes of crit­ters. Through these sto­ries, we form con­nec­tions with nature, ani­mals, and our Earth, as well as other human beings. These con­nec­tions are what truly makes life on our Earth worth living. The TERRA staff remain com­mit­ted to bring­ing you the best in inde­pen­dently pro­duced sci­ence and nature pro­gram­ming from around the globe. We are proud of our archive of more than 200 unique films that high­light sto­ries and expe­ri­ences that are the heart and soul of our nat­ural world. We invite you to join us and to dis­cover the sci­ence, nature, tech­nol­ogy, and cul­ture in these sto­ries as we explore what truly con­sti­tutes life on Earth. These shows are meant for broad dis­tri­b­u­tion. We pack­age them for your iPod, iPad, and smart phone. You can email them, down­load them, and even embed them. We want these sto­ries to be heard — each month we total over 100,000 views. We encour­age you to sift through our archive and we hope you look for­ward to our upcom­ing shows. These films are the visual records of six years on our planet, and these sto­ries help to cre­ate a por­trait of our world, which at times appears very frag­ile. We live in a time where deci­sions about ever-dwindling resources, chang­ing cli­mates, and energy inse­cu­rity are shap­ing the liveli­hoods and futures of the next gen­er­a­tions. This is a time to lis­ten to sci­ence, to shun pol­i­tics, and to become engaged in cre­at­ing a sus­tain­able society. TERRA is run by grad­u­ate stu­dents in the MFA in Sci­ence and Nat­ural His­tory Film­mak­ing Pro­gram at Mon­tana State Uni­ver­sity. We are ded­i­cat­ing our time and energy to bring you this unique pro­gram­ming. We wel­come your feed­back, and we will con­tinue in our hum­ble pur­suit to deliver fresh and inspir­ing con­tent. We appre­ci­ate the hun­dreds of pro­duc­ers that have con­tributed their films for TERRA. With­out the gen­eros­ity of these film­mak­ers, none of this would be pos­si­ble. And most of all, we thank you for watch­ing. Know­ing you are out there is what keeps us going!