Nature
Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.
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1. The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
2. The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
3. The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
4. Under the Ice
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
5. Land of Dragons
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
6. The Great Wood of Caledon
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
7. Gorillas
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
8. Forest of Fear
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
9. Gran Paradiso
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
10. Cranes of the Grey Wind
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
11. King Solomon's Mountains
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
12. Hunters of the Sky
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
13. A Wolf in the Fold
The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.
14. The Colorado
Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
15. The Emerald Isle
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
16. Giant Otters
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
17. The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
18. Presque Isle: Land in Motion
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
19. Yellowstone on Fire
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
20. Serpents
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.
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