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- The seabirds on Anacapa Island were in significant decline due to predation by the non-native Black Rat. In order to restore balance to the Anacapa Island ecosystem, a group of non-profit, government, and educational organizations came together to remove these predators in 2001 and 2002. Ten years after removing the non-native rats, the ecosystem on Anacapa Island, including rare seabirds, is showing profound results of recovery.
- When Rules Don't Apply explores the "no-poach" wage suppression conspiracy that swept Silicon Valley from 2005 to 2015, and the precedent-setting legal battles that challenged these practices. Leading tech CEOs, including Apple's Steve Jobs and Google's Eric Schmidt, secretly agreed not to recruit one another's employees, thus restricting employee job opportunities and limiting their wages. The US Department of Justice applied antitrust law in 2009 for the first time on behalf of labor to prosecute the companies involved for their anticompetitive practices. A separate class action lawsuit was filed in 2013 on behalf of 64,000 tech employees for an estimated $3 billion in lost wages. The case was settled for $435 million in 2014.
- RETURN FLIGHT chronicles how a dedicated team of biologists have been working tirelessly for decades to bring the bald eagle back to the Channel Islands in the face of extensive DDT contamination, leading to some amazing results.