An afternoon spent with the famous gorilla who knows sign language, and the scientist who taught her how to "talk". One of the first words that Koko used to describe herself was Queen. The gorilla was only a few years old when she first made the gesture-sweeping a paw diagonally across her chest ...
The Amazon holds the most significant biodiversity on the planet, the Amazon is the home of hundreds of thousands of animal and plant species. In the Amazon, there are estimates of 100 and 120 billion tonnes of carbon stored today. But alarming destruction rates are a real cause for concern, espe...
With the people of south-western Uganda forced to hunt pangolins for survival due to a lack of income, one local man fights to save not only the lives of the pangolins, but the very people themselves.
South Africa's wildlife is under constant threat from poachers. But help is at hand in the form of the country’s first and only, all-female, anti-poaching unit. They are on the front line to rescue rhinos from the edge of extinction.
Filmed in the disappearing low land rain-forests in Borneo, we see the effect on local wildlife including the endangered Orangutans that populate it.
Southern Portugal like many biomes has a fairly fragile hydrological cycle, and the trend for many years has been for the land to become dryer. the Tamera community wondered whether this was a natural situation and if there was something that could be done to heal the land. (Please note that the...
Earth Man. Altai - Mitya Fomin and Elena Letuchaya went to one of the most unusual and remote corners of Russia - Gorny Altai, to learn firsthand what it is like to work to preserve one of the rarest cats on the planet - the snow leopard.
Ever since the first ancient hunters followed wolves to the location of prey- humans have had a deep-seated connection to canines. We lived symbiotically with the wolf over tens of thousands of years. These wild animals eventually became “man’s best friend” in the form of domesticated dog.
The...
The breath-taking story of a young Tibetan nomad and her epic seasonal journey across the mountains of Amdo Region.
40 powerful race cars, 20 top drivers, 10 high-tech teams, 10 major cities, and one prize - to win the first world championship for cars, powered purely by electricity. In 2014, this was a leap into the future, a new type of motorsport, conceived by sporting entrepreneur Alejandro Agag. Would it ...
Rising from the plains are massive buttes. lies a world of short-grass prairies, pine woodlands, and mountain mahogany shrubland. On top of these massive buttes lives a rare species of big-horned sheep, Once wiped out, this species is now thriving in this rich landscape.
Eleanor is a 'big-bug' enthusiast and a PhD graduate who provides a personal account of her love for insects, and in particular her journey to re-introduce the Large Marsh grasshopper, back into the wild in the UK.
A documentary short exploring the controversy around community efforts to protect the seal pups who have made a home at the Children’s Pool, a public beach area in San Diego.
Beavers used to be an integral part of the UK landscape but they were pushed to extinction over 400 years ago, hunted for their meat, oils and fur. With the loss of this species came the loss of balance and ultimately a less resilient environment. Restoring beavers helps with UK climate change an...
THE LAST STAND examines the urgent race to save the world's last remaining ancient forests and stop global warming. This emotive documentary, using the flashpoint of British Columbia's "Battle for the Trees" at Fairy Creek, examines the importance of keeping intact forest ecosystems: in North Am...
Thirty years ago the toki, also known as the iconic crested ibis, became extinct in the wild in Japan. Dedicated scientists have since, with some difficulty, managed to breed the last remaining birds in captivity and to return their off-spring to the wild
The Sturgeon - a creature of legend, hidden in the depths western Canada's Fraser River - a ghost in the water, a giant among us
A small colony of 'Little Penguins' live on Penguin Island off the coast Perth, Western Australia.
The island has a Discovery Centre which treats and houses penguins that have been injured, orphaned or abandoned, usually as chicks
The Chalgrove Brook is a chalk stream that rises in the Chiltern Hills and flows through the Oxfordshire countryside providing an important ecosystem for local wildlife - but the stream is now under threat
As severe floods become more common communities and researchers around Britain are exploring ways to work with rather than against nature to manage flood waters
Explores the island's remarkable ecosystems, how they came to be and how they are today. The forest may have all but disappeared, but the will to save what is left grows stronger by the day
Taken from the wild in Malaysia as a baby, Billy was transported to Los Angeles Zoo. There he was cruelly trained to do tricks to amuse the visitors.
Thirty years later, having led a mostly solitary life in the zoo, Billy exhibits symptoms of mental and physical distress.
This powerful film foll...
