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First Aired: October 10th, 1982
Status: Continuing
Network: PBS
Summary: 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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Season 7
Episode 1: Bonebreakers' Mountain
Air Date: October 9th, 1988
Summary: An exploration of the Spanish Pyrenees mountains and the bearded "bonebreaker" vulture that lives in this harsh environment.
Episode 2: Extremadura: Spain's Forgotten Forest
Air Date: October 16th, 1988
Summary: Explores Spain's Extremadura, an oak forest and wilderness plain, home to griffin vultures, imperial eagles, genets and other animals native to Africa.
Episode 3: Peacock's War
Air Date: October 30th, 1988
Summary: Former Vietnam medic Doug Peacock lives as a firewatcher and conservationist in Montana's Glacier National Park.
Episode 4: Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: A Separate Creation
Air Date: November 13rd, 1988
Summary: Examines marsupials and others animals which have evolved because of Australia's isolation from the rest of the world.
Episode 5: Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: Seas Under Capricorn
Air Date: November 20th, 1988
Summary: Two distinct marine worlds meet in the waters that encircle Australia. In its long voyage into isolation following its breakaway from Gondwana, 45 million years ago, the island continent came to span both tropical and temperate seas. Today its shores are ringed by the most diverse assemblies of marine life on earth. This program recounts the making of this unique Australia down under, from the storm tossed kelp forests of the cool south, to the magic splendours of the Great Barrier Reef. The program begins its story where Australia was born, in the southern latitudes of the Antarctic seas. Antarctica is the last remnant of Gondwana - it froze over after the other continents broke away, but its cool rich waters still generate a wealth of nutrients which, carried by the deep currents, sustain Australia's marine life.
Episode 6: Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Making of the Bush
Air Date: November 27th, 1988
Summary: A koala up a gumtree is the classic image of the Australian bush. How that odd partnership evolved is one of the strands woven into this episode of Nature Of Australia. The program tells the story of how the island continent's wooded margins came to be dominated by one unique type of tree growing in a great variety of forms - the eucalypt. The nursery for nearly all life in Australia is the rainforest, of which only a few patches remain today - th last remnants of vast, dense forests that covered Australia when it first broke away from the ancestral super-continent of Gondwana, and voyaged north into isolation. From among its proliferation of plants emerged the eucalypts, the characteristic gum trees - and from among the forest animals arose a great and varied company of marsupials, adapting to every kind of environment that evolved in response to Australia's changing, drying climate.
Episode 7: Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Sunburnt Country
Air Date: December 4th, 1988
Summary: Australia's arid interior is often called the dead heart. In fact, it teems with life, supported by a hidden network of buried rivers recharged by rare but heavy rains. This episode tells the story of this surprising desert - formed when the climatic change overtook and dried out central Australia. What was once a land of vast lakes and broad rivers turned into a parched region of glittering stone and burning sand, interwoven with swathes of hardy woodland and plains of desert grass. A great variety of plants and animals has adapted to life in the arid centre, with its swings between the brief good condition that follow the unpredictable rains, and then long periods of drought. It's the land of the lizards - from giant goannas that sniff out snakes hiding under the sand, to the tiny, delicate Lake Eyre dragons who've made the desolate saltpans their domain.
Episode 8: Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Land of Flood and Fire
Air Date: December 11st, 1988
Summary: Australia's northward drift slowed down when it collided with Asia about 15 million years ago - in the upheavals, chains of islands were thrust up and eventually they became the stepping stones for an invasion that would change the face of Australia. With the arrival of the first humans - at least 50,000 and possibly as long as 120,000 year ago - a new force entered the continent to shape the fortunes of its plants and animals. The first landfall was on the far north coast of Australia, a rich and tropical region ruled by the annual monsoonal rains. This program tells the story of Australia's top end, where the first Aboriginal people arrived, settled, and perfected the use of fire as a means to manage the landscape.
Episode 9: Nature of Australia: A Portrait of the Island Continent: End of Isolation
Air Date: December 18th, 1988
Summary: Modern Australians want to recapture the Aborigines ability to live harmoniously with indigenous plants and animals.
Episode 10: Night Hunters
Air Date: January 8th, 1989
Summary: The different types of owls and the characteristics which make them ideal birds of prey.
Episode 11: Beyond Timbuktu
Air Date: February 5th, 1989
Summary: Wildlife artist Bruce Pearson sketches the various bird species found in the arid lands of Western Africa's Mali, through which the River Niger flows.
Episode 12: Under the Emerald Sea
Air Date: February 19th, 1989
Summary: Explores the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Vancouver, B.C.
Episode 13: Wild Waterfalls
Air Date: February 26th, 1989
Summary: Explores the variety of local environments found around waterfalls in Africa, South and North America.
Episode 14: Meerkats United / The Bee-Team
Air Date: March 5th, 1989
Summary: Profiles of the Kalahari Desert's gray meerkat or mongoose, and a Kenyan colony of bee-eater birds.
Episode 15: Icebird
Air Date: March 12nd, 1989
Summary: The Adelie penguin is observed at the Cape Bird nesting site on Antarctica's Ross Island.
Episode 16: Mozu the Snow Monkey
Air Date: March 19th, 1989
Summary: Chronicling the life of "Mozu the Snow Monkey," a macaque with deformed limbs that's survived harsh winters in Japan's highlands to raise seven offspring. The complex social structure among the primates is documented.
Episode 17: The Everglades: Rain Machine
Air Date: March 26th, 1989
Summary: Examines the role computers play in managing the Everglades and whether this vital freshwater marsh will survive the effects of diking, draining and development.
Episode 18: Islands in the Sky
Air Date: April 16th, 1989
Summary: Unique animals and plants flourish atop mist-shrouded Venezuelan plateaus thousands of feet above the surrounding jungle.
Episode 19: Rulers of the Wind
Air Date: April 30th, 1989
Summary: Scientists study birds of prey, creatures historically admired and hated, as indicators of environmental damage.
Episode 20: Kariba: the Lake that Made a Dent
Air Date: May 14th, 1989
Summary: Wildlife flourishes around the manmade lake conservationists denounced 30 years ago at its creation.
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