The first of which is called 'The Great Melt' and it is about the summer melt of Arctic ice, opening up nearly three million square miles of ocean and land, providing opportunities for millions of animals, including beluga whales, families of Arctic foxes, vast colonies of seabirds, and the fabled Arctic unicorn and the narwhal. However, for polar bears, it is the toughest time of year. Why? How will they survive?
The series airs every Wednesday evening for 6 weeks on BBC1 at 9:00pm, beginning Wednesday February 11th 2009. It is also repeated on a Sunday, beginning Sunday 15th February 2009, on BBC1 at 6:00pm.
For an overview of the entire series click here.
Titles in the series include:
1. The Great Melt
2. The Great Salmon Run - The return of the Pacific salmon every year to the rivers from which they were born is one of the greatest natural events on the planet. More than 500 million salmon travel up to 20,000 miles to return to the exact patch of gravel in the river from which they were born, to spawn and die.
3. The Great Migration - Each year more than one million wildebeest and a quarter of a million zebra and gazelle migrate on Tanzania's Serengeti Plains – one of the most spectacular events in the natural world.
4. The Great Tide - As winter arrives along South Africa's east coast the inshore waters cool, drawing hundreds of millions of sardines northwards.
5. The Great Flood - At the peak of the dry season in the Kalahari Desert herds of elephants trek towards a life-saving event.
6. The Great Feast - In the north-east Pacific, along the coastal waters of Alaska and British Columbia, the arrival of the summer sun triggers an explosion of plant life greater in scale than even the Amazon rainforest
Watch and see the interactions between plants and animals within their ecosystems and see how the ecosystems are being forced to change/adapt for various reasons.
See a write up on the series from the Telegraph newspaper here.
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