Air date: June 19, 2001, 8:00 p.m. EST. Video available from http://www.films.com About the program Public events Outreach materials PBS website (http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/) Funding acknowledgments Bill Moyers, acclaimed producer of television documentaries, is filming a special environmental program that examines the changing status of the world's ecosystems. Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge, inspired by World Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life, features stories about farmlands in the U.S. Midwest, forests in Canada's British Columbia, reefs along Brazil's Atlantic coastline, watersheds in South Africa, and the grassland steppe of Mongolia. In each of these locations, the focus is on the people whose lives depend on these ecosystems and how that dependence affects the ecosystem. World Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life, like the program, is structured around five ecosystems--agroecosystems, coastal ecosystems, forests, freshwater systems, and grassland ecosystems. The research of the Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems (PAGE), the first attempt to analyze the extent and condition of ecosystems on global basis, is the scientific basis for the report. Like the book, Earth on Edge also features five case studies. Each examines management strategies people use to extract food, water, and raw materials from ecosystems and strategies undertaken to remedy problems of degradation resulting from that extraction or from misuse. Two of the five case studies in the program were also featured in World Resources 2000-2001: "Working for Water, Working for Human Welfare in South Africa" chronicles the increased pervasiveness of invasive plants in South Africa and the devastating effects they have had on freshwater resources; "Sustaining the Steppe: The Future of Mongolia's Grasslands" examines the effects politics can have on an ecosystem and people compelled to follow mandates inconsistent with good management techniques. If your country does not appear on the order form list please contact the World Resources full list of Distributors