Mark your calendars! On the 2nd and 3rd of July, Patricia Zurita joins CNN’s Bill Weir to host an episode of CNN International’s ground-breaking series Call to Earth, called Protecting Nature’s Highways, about the wonders of migration and the global flyways migrating birds use.
To promote the show, Zurita will also be featured on two of CNN International’s flagship news programmes, Becky Anderson’s ‘Connect The World’ live from Abu Dhabi and Richard Quest’s ‘Quest Means Business’ live from New York on 29 June at approximately 11.40am & 3.30pm (both times ET). The full show will then air on July 2nd at 6am ET/ 11am UK/BST and July 3rd at 1pm ET/6pm UK/BST on CNN International.
The program, which Zurita guest edited, highlights migration. The first segment is about birds journeying along one of earth’s 8 great flyways, the African Eurasian flyway, which stretches from the Arctic to the tip of Africa. For this segment she shot on location in the Doñana National Park with our Spanish Partner SEO BirdLife. Industrial scale water extraction threatens this most critical of wetlands for migratory birds and nature, mostly for unsustainable red fruit production such as strawberries and cranberries. Zurita also visited white wine vineyards that use no irrigation, and indigenous agricultural methods and grapes, both of which have been used in the region for thousands of years.
Other segments feature whale shark migration at the Mesoamerican Reef, grizzly bears and other apex predators in Canada, and bees and other pollinators in England. All of these species need safe areas in and through which they can move naturally – nature’s highways.
