About the movie
Sparked by concerns of local fishermen, the initial efforts of a few scientists and environmental advocates mushroomed into a global campaign reaching millions of people, one of the first to make full use of the new internet.
In the end, it was a mysterious powerful encounter with a 30-ton whale in 2000 that swayed a nation’s president and the world’s largest multinational to choose to protect nature and not exploit it.
Twenty years later, this is considered one of the greatest environmental success stories in history and a springboard for world-known climate activist Xiye Bastida to learn about the threats for the gray whales going to Baja to the Arctic and how her journey mirrors the current climate crisis.
In the end, it was a mysterious powerful encounter with a 30-ton whale in 2000 that swayed a nation’s president and the world’s largest multinational to choose to protect nature and not exploit it.
Twenty years later, this is considered one of the greatest environmental success stories in history and a springboard for world-known climate activist Xiye Bastida to learn about the threats for the gray whales going to Baja to the Arctic and how her journey mirrors the current climate crisis.
