It’s one of the harshest environments on the planet; a place where change is the only constant, and life must adapt or perish. We examine this peculiar desert-like environment, where scarab beetles and lizards scurry through the sand and native ducks and oystercatchers seek sanctuary in surprising oases.

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 growing gannet population be linked to reduced catches and empty holds on our own fishing boats?

This is the incredible story of a mother’s journey to keep her family alive. Echo must guide four generations of her relatives through the cruel famine that follows the failure of the latest rains: she must protect them from attack by lions, and keep them away from growing conflict with angry Maasai farmers.

Wildlife biologist Randall Jay Moore first came to know trained African circus elephants thirty years ago near his home in Oregon. He successfully shipped a pair back to Africa and spent a year teaching them how to live on their own in the wild. Since then he has rescued African elephants from confinement all over the world.

Twenty years after the ban on the ivory trade, the elephant population in Africa is rising. In India, deforestation means that elephants are running out of space. With people and elephants competing for resources, a problem has emerged: the human-elephant war. With amazing visuals and candid interviews, Inside Elephant Wars, is a story not only of fear and devastation but ultimately of hope.

The emperor penguin’s breeding cycle runs through the harsh and bitter Antarctic winter. Loyal male emperors suffer vicious blizzards, temperatures as low as minus 50°C and a complete lack of food as they wait for the eggs under their bellies to hatch. The epic vigil is finally relieved when the female penguins return in early spring.

Each year, nearly a million migrants arrive in North Western Australia. They’re wading birds on an extraordinary trans-global migration, flying up to 15,000 kilometres from their Russian breeding grounds to escape the harsh northern winter. The huge tide fall exposes vast mudflats, inexhaustible larders for exhausted and hungry birds.

The Equator covers only five percent of the Earth's surface but is home to fifty percent of its animal and plant species. The visual power of high definition takes the viewer to the most extreme and diverse locations on the planet. A jaw-dropping, award-winning bluechip series.

The best and most powerful moments of the multi award-winning series, Power of the Sun and Challenge of the Cold take us through the three vastly different equatorial zones where life is finely balanced between extremes of heat and cold. From dense tropical jungle to sun-baked plains, to a vast flooded forest, the Equatorial sun burns deep into the lives of animals across three continents.