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S1 E4 Pantanal: Brazil's Wild Heart

Documentary

TV-PG

52m

Jan 1, 2013

Every year the Pantanal is drowned by immense floods, and then suffer severe drought. Yet, while people struggle, the Pantanal hosts some of the greatest gatherings of animals on the planet.

Season 1, 5 Episodes

season 1 (5 episodes)

Amazon: One Jungle, Many Worlds,

The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and the richest ecosystem on earth. This film uncovers what makes the Amazon such a powerhouse of evolution; how it has come to home a third of all species on the planet.

Patagonia: The Ends of the Earth,

Patagonia is a place of extremes of vast ice fields and snow-capped mountains; of windswept deserts, and violent oceans. Survival here means being tough enough to cope with brutal winters, and canny enough to exploit brief seasons of plenty.

Venezuela: The Treasure of El Dorado,

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.

Pantanal: Brazil's Wild Heart,

Every year the Pantanal is drowned by immense floods, and then suffer severe drought. Yet, while people struggle, the Pantanal hosts some of the greatest gatherings of animals on the planet.

The Andes: World in the Clouds,

The longest chain of mountains in the world, the Andes run the length of western South America and dictate the climate for the whole continent. They include some of the highest peaks outside the Himalayas.

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Wildest Latin America

Documentary

TV-PG

1 Season

52m

It's taken millions of years for animals to adapt to places as different as the high Andes and the sweltering Amazon; the windblown Patagonian steppe and the swamps of Venezuela - the result is an incredible diversity of species.

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