Program Catalog
 | 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... |
 | Under the Ice The unknown has always captured the imagination of explorers and visitors to Antarctica. Yet 100 years after first setting foot on its icy shores, we are still only scratching the surface. This, the f... |
| What's Next Dazzled by Australian city lights, New Zealanders cross the Tasman each year in droves. But heading in the opposite direction is a steady migration of wild Australia, and it's been going on for mi... | |
| Wild South Goes North Peter Hayden takes a trip on a boat called 'Waterproof' to Iceland, Jan Mayen, the only volcano in the arctic, and to Svalbard, the islands at the top of the world. On the way he meets some re... | |
 | Bola - The Predictable Disaster Cyclone Bola brought three days of continuous rain that battered the fragile landscape of New Zealand's East Coast. Man had destroyed the forest and created the perfect conditions for a disaster. ... |
 | Islands of the Iguana Fiji is a nation of coral beaches, coconut palms and unforgettable sunsets - but it's also a wildlife paradise and a place of many mysteries. One such mystery is how a three-foot long tropical South A... |
 | Land of the Kiwi New Zealand is so remote, so strange, that the legend that a god fished these islands from the sea could just be true. The wildlife is extraordinary: strange insects; frogs that carry their young; bir... |
 | Lost World of the Poor Knights On a tiny island lost since the dawn of time, we can glimpse a world long past. Here are creatures from another age: giant armour-plated insects called wetas and huge land snails that still browse the... |
 | Tale of the Crayfish Crayfish are among the most sought-after animals in the sea: from the tropical Pacific to the cold North Sea. But surprisingly little is known of the life of the crayfish. This film reveals the secret... |
 | Journeys in National Parks Peter Hayden presents journeys through six New Zealand national parks. Subtitles are: Tongariro te Maunga; Westland Aoraki; Fiordland; Urewera; Hauraki Gulf. |
 | Icebird Adelie penguins, slaves to a strict timetable of breeding, are drawn to the same patch of Antarctica each spring. To ignore the rules of time and place is to invite hazards for young and old alike. Se... |
 | Colony Z Rare yellow-eyed penguins waddle from wild ocean through sand dunes and farmland to nest with life-long mates amongst flax and scrub in southern New Zealand. Their strange lifestyle was uncove... |
 | Eating Like a Gannet Why are gannets the world over on the increase? This study of the colony at Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand, looks for a possible answer in the poor inshore harvests of the fishing industry. Could the gr... |
 | Song of Protest Most of New Zealand's forests are gone, and the struggle to preserve what remains is not over. Yet the kokako, a song bird with cobalt blue wattles and a velvet black mask, remains. And his song, ... |
 | Southern Harbour Sandflats and foreshores are familiar to everyone, but they hide a harbor's secrets. We take a close look at life above and below the waters of New Zealand's Otago Harbor, and discover that wh... |
 | Swan Lake In the ballet Swan Lake, white swans triumph, while the mythical blacks are banished. Fortunes have changed, however, on New Zealand's Lake Ellesmere, where black and white swans live in the wild. |
