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Seasonal Forests (10/11)

This is also part of this series: Planet Earth - Series II (6)

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Subjects: Animals, Geography, Natural History, Nature, Ocean, Science, Volcanoes, Water

Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2006
Available in French: Yes

At the edge of the Arctic, the Taiga forest is a silent world of stunted conifers cloaked in snow and ice. The trees may be small but filming from helicopter and satellite reveal its true scale. It's a belt that circles the globe, broken only by ocean, and containing a third of all trees on Earth. During the short summer, it produces so much oxygen that it changes the atmosphere.

Travelling further South reveals that it is the trees that are the stars. In California, the cameras fly up the tallest trees on Earth - giant redwoods over 100 metres high. The broadleaf forests of North America and Europe bustle with animal life. In the forest of Eastern Russia, the rare Amur leopard battles for survival in the freezing temperatures. There are fewer than 40 of these cats remaining in the wild. The baobab forests of Madagascar are the strangest trees of all. These bizarre upside-down trees store water in their swollen trunks and harbour equally curious wildlife, such as the tiny mouse lemur.

Narrated by David Attenborough.

Awards: Banff World Television Awards 2006 - Nomination: Popular Science & Natural History Programs

Links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/planetearth/

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