I’ve been taking a look at several movies showing at this year’s Planet In Focus Film Festival,  and the first review I did was Return to Ryan’s Well, which was has a great message. The second film I reviewed was The Little Things, and it was really inspirational. After The Last River told the story about the community of Attawapiskat. Plant This Movie demonstrated how the solution for a sustainable future grows in our very own backyards. For the last review, let’s take a look at one of my favourite animals, the puffin in Puffin Patrol!

Follow families and passionate environmentalists on Newfoundland’s Puffin Patrol. It is spring on the North Atlantic and millions of puffins are making their way home to breed. They spend 8 months of the year living alone at sea, but they are extremely social towards one another when they return to land. On Gull Island, just south of St John’s, Newfoundland, it is breeding season for over 300,000 pairs of North Atlantic puffins. Scientists have been working to help the puffin survive even longer, not an easy task with larger business and housing development.

Because pufflings leave the nest in August, flying out to the ocean and coming back to land only to mate. And since they navigate by the light of the moon, they can become confused and move into the city lights of buildings, houses and street lamps, leading them into town and onto traffic.

But the species have managed to continue to survive, and now with advanced geo-tagging technology, pieces of the puzzle are coming together. This film shows you how.

Puffin Patrol Trailer (CBC) from Rock Yenta Productions on Vimeo.