UK documentary sequence A Year on Planet Earth, introduced by Stephen Fry, premieres this week on Seven.
Showcasing the various wonders of the world, the 6 half sequence reveals the unimaginable methods through which nearly all life is related and the way the place we’re on our journey across the solar impacts the lives of particular person animals.
The sequence filmed throughout 60 areas together with Iceland, Svalbard, Marion Island, Trinidad, Kenya, Kalahari, Northern Australia and extra.
Asked what can viewers anticipate, he replied, “Stunning images of the world, however in a method that concentrates on one thing so apparent and stunning about our planet that we regularly overlook it: It’s on a tilt, and it’s that that creates the seasons, and the seasons create…effectively, the whole lot!”
Episode 1: Winter:
Stephen Fry hosts a brand new landmark wildlife sequence exploring how our annual journey across the solar impacts practically all life on Earth. As we orbit our star, it’s on a tilted axis of round 23.5 levels and this creates the seasons. For these within the northern hemisphere, Winter brings plummeting temperatures, darkening days and instances of starvation. On Svalbard’s frozen sea-ice, a polar bear mom is making ready her cub for a life alone. Each week with out meals, she loses round a tenth of her physique weight.
On the opposite facet of the planet the far south leans in direction of the solar, bringing light and heat. It is the southern summer season. Deep within the Southern ocean, King Penguins flock to Marion Island, a tiny spec of land between South Africa and Antarctica. It is breeding season at the moment of yr and it turns into residence to one million penguins. In the tropics the depth of the solar drives cloud formation, bringing the rains. For a child African elephant, that is the season of play however harder instances lie forward.
8:30pm Wednesday on Seven.
