Covering 200,000 km sq, India's Thar desert is one of the harshest places on Earth. Desiccating winds and near permanent drought has earned this unforgiving land another name: the region of death.
Showing1to20of186results
A visually stunning and dramatic portrait of India's mighty monsoon as it brings life — and death — to a thirsting land.
Water is the beginning of all life - including the wildlife of Germany. Beavers fell trees, otters play under water, kingfishers catch fish for their young. Lakes and rivers cover just 2.5% of the total area of the country. The episode Rivers and Lakes takes the viewer on a journey through the water world of Germany. In winter, the few ice-free surfaces are popular with waterfowl. Coots throng the source ponds of the River Havel, while above them white-tailed eagles gather for the hunt, as their prey swim openly beneath them. The coots stick together, swimming to and fro to make it difficult for the eagles to pick out one individual bird. But with each attack, the coots grow increasingly tired. In Spring, the ice melts and the lakes and rivers awake from their winter torpor. Germany has more than 800 rivers longer than 10km. They transport the life-giving liquid into all corners of the country. The water of the River Danube alone would be enough to fill Germany's biggest body of water, Lake Constance, in 12 months. Every year, six times the volume of the lake falls in the form of precipitation: 800 litres per square metre. Otters and beavers had a very hard time in recent centuries. They were hunted mercilessly for their fur and eaten in periods of fasting. Today, both species are protected and their populations are recovering.
Stephen and Mark hope to see Komodo dragons on the Malay Archipeligo turtle hatchery.
Benny Rebel approaches a big cat in the semi desert with caution. An Asiatic cheetah is like an icon of Iranian nature. The carnivore accepts Benny in its closer environment. The photographer takes breath taking shots. Rewarded in this way Rebel continues his challenging expedition in a high mood. Deep in the desert he manages to come close to the last Wild Ass, so called Onager. The horse like animals are very shy and rare. From his hideouts Benny observes chinkaras, antelopes and impressive horned wild sheep in the mountains. Passing the snow topped Mount Damavand he reaches the green north part of Iran. In the oldest national park Golestan not only massive Marals and wild boars roam. Here also Persian leopards and brown bears crossing their ways. Near the mystical forest of Persia the journey ends at the biggest inland lake of the world: the Caspian Sea. There Benny stalks on the pink flamingoes which gather there for feeding. The number and variety of species and landscapes of Iran is overwhelming but also endangered. On his photo and film expedition Benny Rebel documents the natural resources of Iran - also, to convince the government of his home country to protect their unique treasures of nature and culture.
Covering 200,000 km sq, India's Thar desert is one of the harshest places on Earth. Desiccating winds and near permanent drought has earned this unforgiving land another name: the region of death.
The interior of Madagascar is dry and mountainous, and the forests that grow here lose their leaves during the dry season, except for those that take refuge in narrow canyons eroded by rivers.
Islands can be home to the most extreme examples of life, the wildest of people and the most dramatic landscapes. Natural selection fuels evolution in the most dramatic way
A compelling documentary that explores a previously unknown phenomenon of how animals around the world use their senses to predict approaching disasters.
Plunge into an underwater feeding frenzy, an epic struggle for survival where whales, sharks, dolphins, seals, gannets and billions of fish collide with mankind during one of nature's greatest migration spectacles.
From mountain to sea, and from scorching desert to Arctic tundra, Europe's great wilderness contains a stunning and surprising explosion of life. Wildest Europe reveals the incredible beauty and diversity of wildlife in Europe's major natural habitats.
From mountain to sea, and from scorching desert to Arctic tundra, Europe's great wilderness contains a stunning and surprising explosion of life. Wildest Europe reveals the incredible beauty and diversity of wildlife in Europe's major natural habitats.
A dramatic and poignant portrayal of the fragile alliances and desperate strategies for survival adopted by three species of animals caught in the no-man's-land where the human and natural worlds collide.
The cloud rainforest is a unique ecosystem that grows in equatorial regions, perched on peaks of over two thousand meters, where clouds permanently deposit water and the weather is cold.
Some of the forests with most character in the world are the juniper woods. Each juniper tree has its own shape. Juniper woodlands are open and adapted to the cold and dry climates.
Venezuela is famous for its lost worlds, its forbidding mountains, huge swamps, and impenetrable jungles, all seemingly cut off in space and time. Yet each is linked, by the mighty river: the Orinoco, the rumoured route to El Dorado, city of gold.
The film follows a year in the High Arctic, where life is exceptionally entwined with the seasons. Journey to the Arctic where in winter, the sun doesn't rise for months on end, but in the summer thaws out in an explosion of life.
Shrouded in myth and legend, the forests of Germany are world famous, thanks to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. The strange creatures that actually live there are shown in the episode Forests of the four-part series Wild Germany. A lynx out hunting, red deer stags roar to call their harems together, wild boar forage in dead leaves looking for nuts. When one considers how densely populated it is, Germany is home to a surprising number of different species. Around one third of the country is covered in forest. Forests enters a world full of magic and shows the secretive inhabitants you won't see when out for a walk. Spring in the Black Forest brings out the cherry blossom. Not long now, and the fruit used to make the famous Black Forest Gâteau will appear. A doe has deposited its fawn in the high grass under the trees. Nearby, a vixen is on the look-out for food for her cubs. She would just about be able to handle the fawn ... Life in the forest is full of drama. Humans are rarely seen, the animal adventures take place behind a thick curtain of leaves. The wildcat and the lynx have managed to reconquer some regions from which they had long disappeared. For rare animals like black stork and stag beetle, the woods offer a last refuge. The best nature film-makers in Germany spent more than five years travelling the country from the Harz mountains to the Bavarian Forest, from Saxonian Switzerland to the Palatinate Forest, collecting material on the secret lives of forest dwellers.
With the family split having become permanent, Rocket Dog's Whiskers loses Zaphod and a large group of males.
African rainforests are the oldest in the world. They are inhabited by some of the most legendary animals, such as gorillas, chimpanzees and okapi.
The coastal regions of the Old Continent are occupied by an evergreen forest that reach to the very edge of the sea.
Showing1to20of186results
