Season 8
Episodes • 1989

1. The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
53 minThe area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
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2. The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
53 minThe wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
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3. The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
53 minExamines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
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4. Under the Ice
53 minSoft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
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5. Land of Dragons
53 minProfiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
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6. The Great Wood of Caledon
53 minAn exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
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8. Forest of Fear
53 minA look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
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9. Gran Paradiso
53 minResource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
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10. Cranes of the Grey Wind
53 minScientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
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11. King Solomon's Mountains
53 minThe forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
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13. A Wolf in the Fold
53 minThe relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.
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15. The Emerald Isle
53 minThousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
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16. Giant Otters
53 minThe fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
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17. The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
53 minProfiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
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18. Presque Isle: Land in Motion
53 minAn exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
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19. Yellowstone on Fire
53 minThe effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
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20. Serpents
53 minA natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.
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