Program Catalog
| Islands 1: Splendid Isolation Throughout the vast Pacific Ocean lie islands colonised by plant and animal species that have survived journeys across oceans and through evolution. A type of gecko species which has only females who ... | |
| Islands 2: Strangers in Paradise Discover the carnivorous caterpillars of Hawaii, the Komodo dragons of Indonesia, and the world's largest skinks, living in the Solomon Islands. The isolation of Pacific Islands has allowed many s... | |
 | Kaikoura - A Short Piece of Track New Zealand's Kaikoura is famous as one of the whale-watching centres of the world. Tipene O'Regan presents a short train trip south down the railway track to the coast. |
 | Masters of Inner Space Masters of Inner Space takes a designer's-eye view of fish, investigating how their physical makeup and use of colour and sensory equipment equips them for life in the ocean. |
 | Norwester - Wind of Contrasts Born far out in the Tasman Sea, the Norwester assaults New Zealand with torrential rain, snow and hail, and searing heat. In the path of the onslaught, nothing is spared. This is a unique insight into... |
 | Rainforest Warrior One of the most striking birds in the world is also one of Australia's most endangered. The brightly-coloured cassowary, up to 2m tall, is threatened by rainforest fragmentation. But not only does the... |
| Reef Fish - Where Have They All Gone? Around the world, reef fish communities are being over-fished. Hook, line and sinker, spearfishing and monofilament set nets have swept the reefs and are causing devastation to reef ecology. | |
| Sex and Greed - The Bowerbirds The Bowerbirds of Australia and Papua New Guinea symbolise sexuality in a very human way. The males build elaborate bowers to 'seduce' as many females as possible. The birds are promiscuous: n... | |
| Shipwrecks - A Natural History It is not often that we can record the marine colonisation of shipwrecks from day one. The 'Rainbow Warrior', Greenpeace's flagship, was sabotaged by French agents and sunk. It now provide... | |
 | Wanted Alive New Zealand's fauna includes birds and reptiles found nowhere else in the world. But destruction of habitat plus the introduction of predators by European settlers has left many species in a criticall... |
 | Young Mountains There is no such thing as silence in the young mountains of New Zealand's Southern Alps. Even on the calmest day, the scream of a distant kea, the buzzing of a tiny fly and the stamping of a startled ... |
 | Grandma Grandma is the affectionate name given to a very special bird - a Northern Royal Albatross who breeds near Dunedin, New Zealand at Taiaroa Head, the only mainland albatross colony in the world. At ove... |
 | Kiwi - A Natural History The kiwi is unique to New Zealand and is one of the most unusual animals on earth. It is flightless, nocturnal, has hair-like feathers, and burrows into the ground to lay an egg representing 25% of it... |
 | Battle for Breaksea Island New Zealand's Department of Conservation marshalled its limited resources and chose the battleground: the island of Breaksea. Their opponent? The seemingly indomitable predator of the island&#... |
 | Cold Water Warm Blood A great upwelling of nutrients off the coast of New Zealand has produced a bounty for the most diverse collection of seals, whales and dolphins anywhere. Three species of dolphins and fur seals inhabi... |
 | Dune Dune is about life on ocean beaches and sand dunes in New Zealand. From crashing surf and shifting sands to large stable dunes, we meet lizards, sand beetles, and the ever-present oyster catchers. |
| Fox - Australia's Undesirable Immigrant The fox is one of nature's success stories and nowhere more so than on the mainland of Australia. | |
| Heaven on Earth? The Cook Islands - isolated, idyllic and so far largely unspoilt. Fifteen islands scattered over 2 million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean. Despite their isolation, these islands' flora... | |
 | Mirrorworld Life above and below the water in a unique fiord environment is compared, from the heights of towering ice-bound mountain peaks to the blackest depths. |
| Moa's Ark 1: The Building of the Ark Moa's Ark set sail 80 million years ago and David Bellamy is able to retrace this voyage with the help of an ancient mariner. He finds out why New Zealand is called the Shaky Isles, is inspired by... | |
| Moa's Ark 2: Invaders of the Last Ark For eighty million years, Moa's Ark voyaged across the Pacific Ocean with no mammals aboard. Then, in the last 1000 years, humans arrived from Polynesia and Europe, and as David Bellamy discovers,... | |
| Moa's Ark 3: Stamp of Giants A postage stamp of the kauri giant Tane Mahuta was an 8 year old David Bellamy's first introduction to New Zealand. The good news is that tonight he visits the real Tane Mahuta and New Zealand'... | |
| Moa's Ark 4: To the Life Boats Predators may have forced many of Moa's Ark's ancient mariners to abandon ship and to live on off-shore island lifeboats, but in visiting them David Bellamy tells some of the most importan... | |
| New Zealand - A Gift from the Sea A journey through New Zealand's National Parks. | |
| Out of the Poo On the outskirts of Christchurch, New Zealand is an amazing wildlife area - a sewage treatment plant. | |
 | Possum - A New Zealand Nightmare The possum, a leaf-eating marsupial introduced from Australia, is devastating New Zealand. The possum is not only eating its way through the country's forests, but carrying a disease deadly to the agr... |
 | Pukeko Promiscuous, incestuous and homosexual, New Zealand's native swamp hen is a remarkable bird. Surrounded by the country's largest city, situated between a busy suburban motorway and a rock concert stad... |
 | Sanctuary One of the oldest wildlife sanctuaries in New Zealand is Kapiti Island. Since the 1890s it has been a refuge for some of the country's unique wildlife, and a workshop for people trying to preserve end... |
| Tasmania - The Last Refuge Tasmania, Australia, still possesses a relatively intact range of predatory native animals. Discover the characters which inhabit this unique southern sanctuary. | |
 | The Black Robin - A Chatham Island Story The Chatham Island Black Robin from New Zealand once held the dubious distinction of being the rarest bird on earth. With only five individuals left, their species stared directly into the oblivion of... |
