Season 8

Season 8

1989-10-08
20 Episodes

Episodes

The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

1. The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

1989-10-08

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The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.

The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

2. The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

1989-10-15

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The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.

The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

3. The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

1989-10-22

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Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.

Under the Ice

4. Under the Ice

1989-10-29

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Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.

Land of Dragons

5. Land of Dragons

1989-11-12

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Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong

The Great Wood of Caledon

6. The Great Wood of Caledon

1989-11-19

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An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.

Gorillas

7. Gorillas

1989-12-10

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A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

Forest of Fear

8. Forest of Fear

1989-12-17

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A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.

Gran Paradiso

9. Gran Paradiso

1990-01-07

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Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.

Cranes of the Grey Wind

10. Cranes of the Grey Wind

1990-01-21

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Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.

King Solomon's Mountains

11. King Solomon's Mountains

1990-02-04

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The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.

Hunters of the Sky

12. Hunters of the Sky

1990-02-11

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A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.

A Wolf in the Fold

13. A Wolf in the Fold

1990-02-18

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The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.

The Colorado

14. The Colorado

1990-03-04

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Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

The Emerald Isle

15. The Emerald Isle

1990-03-11

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Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.

Giant Otters

16. Giant Otters

1990-03-18

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The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.

The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

17. The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

1990-03-25

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Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.

Presque Isle: Land in Motion

18. Presque Isle: Land in Motion

1990-04-01

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An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.

Yellowstone on Fire

19. Yellowstone on Fire

1990-04-08

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The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.

Serpents

20. Serpents

1990-04-15

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A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.