‎Sacred Planet With Gulnaz Khan - Apple TV

TV Show · Documentary · Special Interest

A deeply personal and often uplifting examination of how climate change is impacting some of the most hallowed places on the planet, and how faith leaders worldwide are seeking to mitigate the worst consequences of the climate crisis by drawing on traditional knowledge, practices and beliefs. Presented by environmental journalist Gulnaz Khan and filmed in Africa, Asia and North & South America.

2025 · 54m

Starring Gulnaz Khan

EPISODE 1

The Heart of the World

Gulnaz receives a rare invitation to enter the little-known world of the Arhuaco in Colombia. One of the few indigenous peoples in the Americas to survive the colonial period with their culture and traditions intactthey call themselves the spiritual elder brothers to the rest of the people (the younger brothers) of the world. They have a vital climate message for us all.

54m
EPISODE 2

Stopping the Desert

Gulnaz travels the length of the Sahel region of Africa from Mauritania and Senegal in the westto Ethiopia in the east. Hereas worsening desertification threatens Muslim and Christian communities alikepriests and imams and scientists are refining traditional practices that promise to hold back the Sahara and its shifting sands.

54m
EPISODE 3

Saving the World's Forests

Gulnaz journeys to Japan to learn how some of the oldest continuously recorded climate records on the planet have revealed that global warming is upending centuries-old traditionseven as ancient shrines and temples provide new approaches to reforestation and conservation.

54m
EPISODE 4

Reclaiming Peru's Glaciers

Gulnaz follows in the path of the ancient Inca and contemporary Catholics as these two great spiritual traditions confront the inexorable deglaciation of the Andes and forge new ways to mitigate the climate crisis by way of timeless engineering and international lawsuitsas well as pilgrimages and prayer.

55m

Gulnaz Khan

Host