Satoyama: Wild Neighbors

People have sought to create productive landscapes that balance human activity with biodiversity. In Spain, there is the “dehesa”; in Hawaii, the “ahupuaʻa”; in Japan, the “satoyama.” “Satoyama: Wild Neighbors” is a three-episode series that discovers how humans and wildlife live side by side.

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The Wild World in a Terraced Rice Paddy-Satoyama: Wild Neighbors Ep. 2

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For more than 200 years, Hsiao Chun-yi’s family has tended the same rice paddy, creating a landscape where people and nature live together. While the crab-eating mongoose forages along the streams, Taiwan blue magpies make their homes in nearby forests where they raise their chicks year after year. Endangered turtles and rice fish find food and refuge among the flooded fields as farmers nurture a new crop of rice. Step into this remarkable ecosystem and discover how generations of rice farming have helped sustain a thriving habitat for wildlife. People have sought to create productive landscapes that balance human activity with biodiversity. In Spain, there is the “dehesa”; in Hawaii, the “ahupuaʻa”; in Japan, the “satoyama.” Coproduced by NHK, PTS, TaiwanPlus, and NHK Enterprises, “Satoyama: Wild Neighbors” is a three-episode series that discovers how humans and wildlife live side by side.

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