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Documentary - Our Big Blue Backyard

Goat Island

The creatures of New Zealand’s oldest marine reserve are safe from humans, but that doesn’t mean life is easy. They are under constant attack from marauding dolphins, diving cormorants, and the sharks and the marlin that live beyond the boundaries of the reserve.
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To Save the Kakapo

The kakapo’s most successful breeding season for 16 years was a roller coaster ride of hope for the team trying to save New Zealand’s flightless parrot from extinction.
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The Lost Voyage of 499

One family’s mission to trace their ancestor’s remains buried deep in the coastal sands of northern New Zealand and, together with a local Maori tribe, attempt to lay to rest the other restless spirits of 499 missing miners lost at sea over 100 years ago.
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Documentary - Our Big Blue Backyard

Kaikoura

New Zealand’s Kaikoura peninsula is home to the world’s most acrobatic dolphin species, some of New Zealand’s most robust young Fur Seals, and an unconventional group of Red-Billed Gull families who defend their chicks from dangers both within and outside the colony
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Secrets of New Zealand

New Zealand is one of the most beautiful places on Earth but it’s also one of the most dangerous ⎯ bubbling volcanoes, ferocious seas and colliding fault lines could strike at any moment.
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Documentary - Life Force

The Arid Namib

An amazing array of plants and animals survives in the Namib, the world’s oldest desert. They’ve had fifty million years to evolve cunning ways to cope with the heat and harvest water from the fog that often blankets this unique coastal desert.

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