The Dragons Domain
Indonesia's enduring heat provides energy for it's reptilian residents to thrive, and so much so, they outnumber it's mammalian inhabitants.
Indonesia's enduring heat provides energy for it's reptilian residents to thrive, and so much so, they outnumber it's mammalian inhabitants.
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Wildest Middle East reveals the remotest and most surprising corners of this ancient land, where you will find nothing is as it seems and where the natural world is fighting a constant battle to survive in an ever changing world.
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.
A rich portrait of life and death at the vertical limit of mammalian life on Earth — the Himalayas — including the most intimate and extensive encounters with a wild snow leopard ever captured on film.
Indonesia's enduring heat provides energy for it's reptilian residents to thrive, and so much so, they outnumber it's mammalian inhabitants.
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.
Daintree National Park is a magical meeting of rainforest and reef, lying at the heart of the world heritage listed wet tropics of Queensland.
The laurel forests of the Canary Islands are relics more than 20 million years old.
In this episode of the documentary series Andreas Kieling reports from the Amazon basin, Siberia, South Africa, the mountains of western China and the Eiffel region back home in Germany. Kieling ventures to western China almost as far as the border with Tibet in search of the great panda, the legendary bamboo bear. Set against a gigantic natural backdrop, the filmmaker is attempting to track down the extremely reclusive creature. But finding one of the approximately 3000 pandas who live in the vast mountainous landscape and capturing it on camera is like searching for a needle in a haystack. And then comes a stunning close encounter with the beautiful creatures at a very special place: the breeding station at Wulong. The precious bears live in huge natural enclosures here, breeding and providing specimens to be loaned to a number of zoos all over the world. These particular creatures are only able to serve as ambassadors for their few relatives who still live in the wild since they have become accustomed to captivity, they would not be able to survive by themselves in the rainforests.
Cambodia is one of the most bio diverse countries in Southeast Asia, whose wildlife and climate is ruled by the monsoon cycle. It is a wild land of extreme rains, raging rivers and flooding lakes that create great challenges for its animals and a fine bal
Staying alive in Asia's barren heartland of desert and dry grasslands is a challenge, yet many animals thrive.
Evicted Sencha is thrown a lifeline in the form of attractive rover Lilac.
In this episode of Wild Places, we join with botanist Peter Latz, who believes the biggest influence on the Australian arid landscape has been fire. Years ago, Peter wondered how different this country would have looked like without the influence of it.
The Philippines are a chain of around 7,000 tropical islands in the western Pacific. Plants-turned-predators line the edge of the forests, while rivers help carve one of the world's most spectacular cave systems.
Vietnam is the easternmost country on the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. Around ten percent of the world's species live here. But less than 50 years ago, things were very different. Vietnam's forests were decimated.
Mitch becomes the Whiskers dominant male.
Welcome to the world of wild assassins, where venomous creatures roam.
Wildest Places explores some of the most incredible natural habitats on earth & a diverse range of wildlife.
The Galapagos archipelago contains 13 main islands and a hundred or so smaller rocks and reefs. The region's wilderness is so pristine and rich in life it altered our entire view of the natural world. / Lying like a teardrop in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is an island that defies convention. Poised just six degrees above the equator, it's less than 75,000 km sq in size. But it has enough wildlife to rival a continent.
In some regions of Central and South America, a forest adapted to drought combined with intermittent humidity survives.
The wolf is performing a spectacular come back in the mountains of Italy.
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