
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef lies in the Coral Sea. Here wildlife flourishes in the pristine, tropical seas, home to the worlds richest marine ecosystem.

The Great Barrier Reef lies in the Coral Sea. Here wildlife flourishes in the pristine, tropical seas, home to the worlds richest marine ecosystem.

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Forest is the largest ecosystem on land. China has a rich types of forests, where various rare species thrive in dramatic struggles for existence.

In Peru, on the shores of the Pacific, an Inca city buried under the desert sands has intrigued archaeologists for almost a hundred years.

Capable of predicting eclipses, equinoxes and solstices, the Maya were one of the most knowledgeable pre-Columbian peoples of Central America.

Having a great banquet is a very different thing from snacking on tapas.

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Snow and ice test the survivability of plants and animals, who adapt in remarkable ways to the changing seasons to survive in the harshest environments.

Communication deserves special treatment. In this first episode dedicated to communication, we centre on visual language. Animal species that transmit information whilst maintaining eye contact.

Of the inventions that emerge from the nineteenth century industrial revolution, those that have permitted travel of people and objects are the inventions that have most influenced the human capacity to dominate and conquer the corners of the world. This same migration capability in living things is also essential and hence deserves to be treated in a singular manner.

The fact that Peninsula is located only fourteen kilometres away from Africa allows for the flow of species between the two continents

In the Hijaz desert, in the north-west of Saudi Arabia, lies a mysterious ancient city called Hegra. Until recently, the site had never been thoroughly excavated.

Apart from the sea, there are salty waters where the living conditions are exceptionally hard, like the salt mines, the salt marshes and other extremely saline places.

Celebrates the region of Tōhoku - "northeast" of Japan -, a little-known and superb territory that brings together the six northern prefectures of Honshu Island. Like Hokkaido, this mountainous area remains very rural and rather wild, subject to intense climatic variations throughout the year.

This Spanish island was made a biosphere reserve over 25 years ago and is now inhabited by animals and plants that can be found nowhere else in the world.

Sukhothai, capital of an ancient kingdom, lies in the Yom river valley close to a high mountain range.

As one of the ecosystems on Earth, city was the latest to be born. It was born to meet human needs, but other lives are also endeavouring to find their own living space here.

Filmed over the course of a year, this series takes you into the secret lives of hidden wildlife in the 16 hectares of forest in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

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In Ichijôdani, Japan, deep beneath the rice fields, archaeologists have excavated a medieval town abandoned 400 years earlier.