This spring, the inaugural WCS-curated REEL WILD New York Film Festival comes to Manhattan. Taking place April 4-5, this two-day event showcases award-winning natural history films and offers a unique chance to hear directly from the filmmakers and experts behind the stories. In the first of a 3-part series on the festival, we look at one of those films, the 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary “Haulout,” which explores the impact of climate change on walrus habitat in the Arctic.

Reporting: Nat Moss

Guests: Evgenia Arbugaeva, Martin Robards, Jonathan Slaght, Natalie Cash

Learn more about the festival and purchase tickets at: https://www.wcs.org/reelwild.

[Parts of this episode originally aired in March 2023.]