Season Two of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild has earned the Environmental Media Association’s (EMA) Green Seal in recognition of sustainable production practices.
For more than 60 years, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom has been committed to making the planet a better place, not only for animals, but also for our human quality of life. Being recognized in this way demonstrates how small changes in behavior can make a big impact on our wild kingdom.
What’s the EMA certification?
The EMA, founded 1989, is a nonprofit organization that works with the entertainment industry to encourage green production and raise environmental awareness. Since 2004 the EMA has rewarded productions who integrate sustainable practice through the Green Seal stamp of approval.
Wild Kingdom takes the next step in sustainability
The Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom production team truly embodies the spirit of conservation while in the field filming, extending their dedication beyond the inspiring stories shared on camera. Here are just a few ways they turned their commitment into meaningful impact truly embodying the spirt of the Wild Kingdom legacy:
- Cutting plastic waste: Reducing use of single-use plastic water bottles. Water stations and reusable water bottles avoided the use of approximately 3,568 plastic water bottles.
- Local and eco-friendly staffing: When possible, hiring local production crews in order to limit carbon emission produced by air travel, resulting in an 88% reduction in emissions. That savings is the equivalent of the amount of electricity used by 16 homes in one year!
- Smarter transportation: Carpooling whenever possible in electric and hybrid vehicles, resulting in an emission savings of 2,445 miles driven by an average gasoline-powered passenger vehicle.
- Small production footprint: Most television production crews are huge, generating waste, energy and leaving a heavy footprint on animal habitats. We keep our production team small including only the bare minimum number of people. Our crew of under 8 individuals travels light and seeks to have minimal impact.
Join us in sustainable practices
Together, we can make small changes that have a lasting impact for future generations. Help us nurture a greener planet with these tips from Co-Hosts Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant and Peter Gros.
- Pay attention to your energy consumption, carpool when possible, turn off lights when not in use and use energy-efficient lighting, such as LEDs.
- Reduce your use of plastics, especially single-use items that could end up in our water supply.
- Buy produce from local farmers.
- Add food scraps to your compost pile.
- Vote for policies that help wildlife and wild places.
Watch sustainability in action on Season Two of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild. Episodes air weekly on NBC or catch the action for free on NBC.com and the NBC app.
