"Earth Day" exhibit at the George Price Centre includes nature films.

April 22, 2007 is the 37th anniversary of Earth Day. To commemorate the occasion, the U.S. Department of State sponsored an international art competition for youth ages 10-15, based on the theme “What is important to you about our environment?” The U.S. Embassy in Belmopan encouraged Belizean students to participate and the resulting artwork is on display at the George Price Centre for Peace and Development from April 16 to 30, 2007.

In addition to the creative work on display, the exhibit includes nature films from the Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) “Living Edens” series. The films are on the wonders of Yellowstone, The Colorado River, Denali (also known as Mount McKinley), and Big Sur.

Yellowstone: Paul Schullery, acclaimed author and naturalist, has been watching wildlife in Yellowstone for thirty years. He is the guide through this extraordinary Living Eden where wolves and grizzly bares chase elk, and mountain lions play in the sunshine. Yellowstone National Park isn’t just the world’s first National Park, it is living proof of our relationship with nature.

Wild River – The Colorado: This film follows the Colorado River from its headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park through Utah’s Westwater Canyon, the national parks of Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and Zion, the fragile beauty and rapids of Cataract Canyon and Grand Canyon, and into Mexico’s Gulf of California.

Denali: The Indians called the frozen peak of this great Alaskan mountain range Denali, or “the high one.” Most know it as Mount McKinley. This preserved wilderness comes to life with the thaw of spring and wildlife abounds during the brief summer, only to succumb to the grip of the long winder. Watch as five-week old grizzly cubs play, a moose gives birth to her calf, and a wood frog survives the deep freeze of winter.

Big Sur: Daybreak on California’s Big Sur coast reveals a frenzy of shearwaters feasting on anchovies near beds of giant kelp where sea otters prepare a lunchtime meal of abalones. Afternoon fog bathes Big Sur’s ancient redwood forests where sparkling creeks cascade musically toward the coast through dreamy carpets of lupine. Here, acorn woodpeckers comically toil and California condors and peregrine falcons wheel in the sky above. Elephant seals come here to breed, but for a few unlucky pups, there is no escape from the violence of a fierce winder storm. Sunset and moonrise open a door into an alien underwater world, and a new dawn inspires a sense that the world around us is alive and thriving in a Living Eden called Big Sur.

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