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San Diego isn’t just America’s Finest City; it’s America’s wildest city. Despite its 3.3 million human residents and an utterly transformed landscape, San Diego County is the most biologically diverse county in America. This Earth Day, witness its hidden wonders in @pbsnature ' “San Diego: America’s Wildest City" now streaming on the KPBS+ app.

The grunion are back!!! Starting tonight, San Diego’s beaches will come alive with one of the strangest and most spectacular wildlife events in California: the GRUNION RUN! This week’s expected windows are: Wednesday, March 18 from 10:00 p.m. to midnight Thursday, March 19 from 10:25 p.m. to 12:25 a.m. Friday, March 20 from 10:55 p.m. to 12:55 a.m. Saturday, March 21 from 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. They do not always show up right on time, but if conditions line up, it is an unforgettable sight. This sequence was captured by local San Diego production team @daysedge (directed by @natedappen @neil.losin @hutchinsonmedia ), who filmed this remarkable fish story for their @pbsnature and @sdnhm natural history film San Diego: America’s Wildest City — including, for the first time ever, grunion eggs hatching beneath the sand. If you can’t experience the grunion run in person, you can watch San Diego: America’s Wildest City, now streaming on the KPBS + app and PBS passport, or catch Wild San Diego on the giant screen at the San Diego Natural History Museum any day of the week. Find out more at @pbsnature @kpbs and @daysedge . What an amazing city we all live in! #GrunionRun #SanDiegoWildlife #WildSanDiego #PBSNature #KPBS #DaysEdge #naturalhistory #filmmaking

Where does San Diego’s water come from? About half of it begins in the Colorado River — a river that millions of people depend on, and one that we’ve dramatically reshaped with dams, canals, and diversions. Next weekend, join us at the Blue Water Film Festival for a special screening of Human Footprint, the PBS series exploring how humans transform the planet. We’ll be screening the episode “Damned if You Do,” which dives into the story of the Colorado River — how we control it, depend on it, and the consequences of doing so. 📍 THE LOT La Jolla 📅 Friday, March 20 🕔 5:00 PM The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers @natedappen , and we’d love to see you there. 🎟 Tickets: /movies/LaJolla/Human-Footprint-Dammed-If-You-Do/HO00002067-123920 Come watch the episode on the big screen — and learn how a river hundreds of miles away shapes life here in San Diego.

We were honoured to be featured in the @pbs series @humanfootprintpbs in the episode “Vanishing Act”. The episode explores extinction and highlights the people working to save animals on the brink. It was a privilege to see our rhino caregiver, Zacharia Mutai, and our vet, Dr Florence Kang’ethe, share their passion for protecting the northern white rhinos and the mission of the @biorescue_project . Vanishing Act is a powerful reminder of what we lose, biologically, emotionally and spiritually, when a species disappears. Thank you to the Human Footprint team for telling our story. On World Wildlife Day, we are reminded why this work matters so much. We hope you will watch the episode and be inspired by the people working to save our planet’s most vulnerable species. Video: @humanfootprintpbs

Just off the coast of San Diego, you can witness the world’s top predator in action. This pod of orcas, typically found hunting in the waters off Mexico, occasionally make their way up to San Diego to take advantage of its abundant marine life. But the winter of 2024 was unprecedented — for a month orcas hunted local dolphins just off the coast of La Jolla. See more in @PBSNature and @daysedge 's “San Diego: America’s Wildest City," now streaming on the KPBS+ app.

American chestnut trees fed wildlife, built homes, and sustained communities… until billions vanished, leaving eastern forests forever changed. But hope remains in the millions of sprouts that still cling to life, and in the science working to restore them. Human Footprint host @shane.campbellstaton meets Sara Fern Fitzsimmons in Pennsylvania to uncover the story and the effort to revive a lost giant. Catch up on episodes of Human Footprint now on @pbsterra

How does a desert paradise turn into a toxic desert wasteland? 🌵 Once a hot spot for California vacationers, the Salton Sea is now a health and environmental disaster. Human Footprint host Shane-Campbell Staton (@shane.campbellstaton ) visited the wasteland with community advocate Luis Olmedo to understand what happened. Catch up on episodes of Human Footprint now on @pbsterra #nature #saltonsea #history #education #california

The first two days of the Jackson Wild Media Lab were jam-packed with exciting introductions across the board! From lessons in scicomm and story, to camera introductions, pitch tips, editing tutorials, and more! Stay tuned as our fellows meet their clients and dive into their productions over the next few days! The Jackson Wild Media Lab is a collaboration with HHMI Tangled Bank Studios (@tangledbankhhmi ) and Day’s Edge Productions (@daysedge ). Cinema cameras and lenses for the Jackson Wild Media Lab are provided by our partners at Canon U.S.A., Inc. (@canonusa )

How did rabbits almost destroy Australia? In 1859, A small release of rabbits in Australia multiplied into a relentless wave, with millions devouring the land and native wildlife. Human Footprint host @shane.campbellstaton talks with historian Martha Sear to explore this rabbit plague, and the scientific breakthrough that nearly solved the crisis… but the battle isn’t over. #rabbit #austrailia #austrailian #history #nature

Long before Los Angeles was a maze of highways and skyscrapers, it was home to mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and dire wolves. Beneath today’s city streets, the La Brea Tar Pits preserved a prehistoric ecosystem in remarkable detail, with millions of fossils frozen in time. Predators got trapped, prey piled up, and thousands of years later, miners stumbled onto the remains. Human Footprint host Shane Campbell-Staton and paleontologist Emily Lindsey uncover how a sticky patch of ground became an accidental archive of the Ice Age. For more on this story, head to @pbsterra on YouTube and watch The Mysterious Mass Extinction Hidden in LA

Had such an incredible night at the season finale screening of Human Footprint at the @nhmla in collaboration with @pbssocal and @thelabreatarpits ! Huge thanks to everyone who came out, to the amazing teams who organized the event, and to the brilliant @cara_santa_maria for moderating a thought-provoking panel with host @shane.campbellstaton , series co-Director/co-creator @natedappen and La Brea paleontologist, Emily Linsdey, that made the evening unforgettable. If you missed it, you can still catch the full season streaming now on the PBS App! Photos: @tealmoss #HumanFootprintPBS #NHMLA #DocumentaryFilm #ScienceStorytelling

Highway traffic and pesticides threatened the lives of bees in Washington’s Walla Walla Valley. That’s when entomologist Doug Walsh created an odd yet effective solution to help save low-flying bees. Human Footprint host @shane.campbellstaton shares the story! For more, catch up on episodes of Human Footprint on @pbsterra