Empire of the Vineyard
Choose sides in the animal battles that rage all around the best-tended vines.
Choose sides in the animal battles that rage all around the best-tended vines.
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Peek inside wild worlds, where primordial species thrive amid natural wonders.
Peek inside wild worlds, where primordial species thrive amid natural wonders.
In the heart of Europe lies a unique biotope and a landscape characterised by water: the Rhine-Meuse Delta. Around a third of the Netherlands lies in the heart of Europe, below sea level, with 3,500 polders as a buffer for excess water and numerous cities crossed by canals. It is also a region where nature borders directly on cities, where intensive agriculture gradually leaves its place to the water, where the largest nature parks are in the immediate vicinity of Rotterdam's largest industrial port. From the sources of the Waal to the port of Rotterdam, we encounter protected plant, bird and mammal species, as well as the Delta inhabitants who have created this unique habitat.
South of Barcelona lies the Ebro Delta. Its beaches and lagoons are an exceptional refuge for migratory and native bird species. The delta is known for the numerous pink flamingos that nest near the glittering white saltworks. Sea salt is extracted and rice is cultivated in the delta. The impressive lake landscape is endangered to a certain extent by human intervention. For fear of their harvest, some rice farmers take action against flocks of birds. Invasive rice pests are also a threat to farmers in Europe's largest rice growing region. Other problems make the situation more difficult, such as climate change and rising sea levels or dams holding back sediments. What can be done to preserve the unique Ebro Delta?
Africa deserves to be called a true "paradise of biodiversity." But if we had to pick one, iconic African animal, it would be the Elephant. Even if this animal started its journey in Africa, its ancestors have dominated the world and the five continents through an exceptional evolution in the animal kingdom!
While the kangaroo is associated with Australia, few know how its ancestors even came to be on this continent. In the heart of the Pacific, Australia is now an island continent, a place where the rules are not really the same.
Born after a landslide, the Kaindy Lake has been covering for 100 years a sunken forest which stands with its ghostly trunks in the middle of electric blue water.
Meet Lena and Olya Esipovas, a formidable mother-daughter team based in Uzbekistan devoting their lives to saving the saiga – a critically endangered antelope with a distinctive bulbous nose. In 2015 an epidemic tragically wiped out half of the remaining population, killing over 200,000 animals in just a few days, making the work of Lena and Olya and their team of volunteers all the more urgent.
Uncommon and hardly known, today the Dugong is the most threatened sea mammal on the planet. The species can only be found in certain parts of the Indian Ocean and in the western regions of the Pacific. Off the coast of Mozambique, in the Bazaruto archipelago, Karen is on a mission to monitor this species and implement policies to bring it back from the brink of extinction.
Sloths – famous around the world for their slow pace of life – are under threat. In Suriname, their numbers are falling at a staggering rate as their forest habitat is transformed into towns and roads. Since 2005, Monique Pool, nicknamed the Sloth Lady, has been working tirelessly to protect this unique species with a shelter for injured sloths and an area of forest protected from development to ensure that the local sloths have a safe place to live. Get up close with this amazing animal as she rescues sloths from urban areas, nurses injured sloths back to full health and releases them back into the forest.
Bejeweled Fishes captures the spectacular beauty of fishes inhabiting the coral reefs of the Tropical Pacific.
Whales features the ocean's most majestic creatures. This Wild Window contains spectacular images of humpback whales, sperm whales, and blue whales.
Interrupt a lion-hyena showdown and ponder the fate of both packs' missing pups.
Meet the new Manzi and Kakumbi pups, who face threats from a lion pride.
Discover the challenges and firsts growing animal babies face in the wild.
Travel to the extreme south to experience one of Earth's most diverse regions.
Travel to the extreme south to experience one of Earth's most diverse regions.
In western China, along the border to Tibet is the Baima Snow Mountain reserve. Both humans and animals have to be persistant, willpowered and strong to be able to survive in over 3000 metres height. The Baima snow mountain reserve is one of the most mysterious and impenetrable regions of the world, full of breathtaking beauty and contrasts.
The Great Gobi Nationalpark in the southwest of Mongolia is home oft he most fascinationg mammals alive: the wild camels. The arcaic desert, impenetrable and misterious, ist he home of approximately 800 wild camels which are nearly extinct. The Gobi is one of the most sparsely populated areas around the world. We experience humans which live in the rough and misanthropic desert: Jangaa who breeds camels and specialises in camel polo Surendjav who owns a salt mine Erdene who built an oasis in the middle of the dessert.
Tour the last temperate cloud forest and the islands' remarkable microclimates.
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