• Air date: 09 Oct '88 20 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (20)
    • 1. Bonebreakers' Mountain

      09 Oct '88
      An exploration of the Spanish Pyrenees mountains and the bearded "bonebreaker" vulture that lives in this harsh environment.
    • 2. Extremadura: Spain's Forgotten Forest

      16 Oct '88
      Explores Spain's Extremadura, an oak forest and wilderness plain, home to griffin vultures, imperial eagles, genets and other animals native to Africa.
    • 3. Peacock's War

      30 Oct '88
      Former Vietnam medic Doug Peacock lives as a firewatcher and conservationist in Montana's Glacier National Park.
    • 4. Nature of Australia, A Separate Creation

      13 Nov '88
      Examines marsupials and others animals which have evolved because of Australia's isolation from the rest of the world.
    • 5. Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: Seas Under Capricorn

      20 Nov '88
    • 6. Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Making of the Bush

      27 Nov '88
    • 7. Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Sunburnt Country

      04 Dec '88
    • 8. Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Land of Flood and Fire

      11 Dec '88
    • 9. Nature of Australia: A Portrait of the Island Continent: End of Isolation (6)

      18 Dec '88
      Modern Australians want to recapture the Aborigines ability to live harmoniously with indigenous plants and animals.
    • 10. Night Hunters

      08 Jan '89
      The different types of owls and the characteristics which make them ideal birds of prey.
    • 11. Beyond Timbuktu

      05 Feb '89
      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.
    • 12. Under the Emerald Sea

      19 Feb '89
      Explores the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Vancouver, B.C.
    • 13. Wild Waterfalls

      26 Feb '89
      Explores the variety of local environments found around waterfalls in Africa, South and North America.
    • 14. Meerkats United / The Bee-Team

      05 Mar '89
      Profiles of the Kalahari Desert's gray meerkat or mongoose, and a Kenyan colony of bee-eater birds.
    • 15. Icebird

      12 Mar '89
      The Adelie penguin is observed at the Cape Bird nesting site on Antarctica's Ross Island.
    • 16. Mozu the Snow Monkey

      19 Mar '89
    • 17. The Everglades: Rain Machine

      26 Mar '89
      Examines the role computers play in managing the Everglades and whether this vital freshwater marsh will survive the effects of diking, draining and development.
    • 18. Islands in the Sky

      16 Apr '89
      Unique animals and plants flourish atop mist-shrouded Venezuelan plateaus thousands of feet above the surrounding jungle.
    • 19. Rulers of the Wind

      23 Apr '89
      Scientists study birds of prey, creatures historically admired and hated, as indicators of environmental damage.
    • 20. Kariba: the Lake that Made a Dent

      14 May '89
      Wildlife flourishes around the manmade lake conservationists denounced 30 years ago at its creation.