Robert Redford & Animal Planet Team On Ocean Conservation Series

Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions is partnering with Animal Planet on Ocean Warriors, an ocean conservation series that focuses on the activists, journalists and scientists who are working to fight poachers and organized crime on oceans around the globe. The series is set to premiere December 4 on Animal Planet.

Ocean Warriors takes viewers to the front lines of the battle to save the world’s oceans, from tuna fisheries of the Western Pacific to the Antarctic’s remote Southern Ocean and the coral reefs of Tanzania.

The series is a co-production between Animal Planet, Sundance Productions, Brick City TV and Vulcan Productions. Redford and Laura Michalchyshyn executive produce for Sundance Prods; for Vulcan Productions, Paul Allen, Carole Tomko, Jody Gottlieb and Rocky Collins serve as executive producers; and for Brick City TV, Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin serve as executive producers. For Animal Planet, Erin Wanner and Liz Bronstein serve as executive producers and and Patrick Keegan is supervising producer.

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