Trailer | Eating Up Easter
Preview: Season 21 Episode 17 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The challenge to protect remote Rapa Nui culture and environment from modernization.
More than just a picture-perfect postcard of iconic stone statues, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is a microcosm of a planet in flux. Directed by native Rapa Nui filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu, Eating Up Easter explores the challenges his people are facing, and the intergenerational fight to preserve their culture and a beloved environment against a modernizing society and booming tourism trade.
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Trailer | Eating Up Easter
Preview: Season 21 Episode 17 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
More than just a picture-perfect postcard of iconic stone statues, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is a microcosm of a planet in flux. Directed by native Rapa Nui filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu, Eating Up Easter explores the challenges his people are facing, and the intergenerational fight to preserve their culture and a beloved environment against a modernizing society and booming tourism trade.
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Floating International Trash | Eating Up Easter
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Clip: S21 Ep17 | 2m 4s | How does an island 2,500 miles from the mainland get rid of tourist trash? It's a problem. (2m 4s)
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