Hope some of you enjoyed watching Wild Arabia recently on BBC2 in the UK! If not, and you're in the UK, it's still showing on iPlayer for a limited time only. If you're not in the UK there's a few sneak preview clips on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/wildarabia that are 'internationally facing'. Try whalesharks, humpback whales, wolves vs hyena, and some City timelapses! www.bbc.co.uk/wildarabia
Look out for Wild Arabia showing on local channels around the world sometime in 2013!
All the best,
Chadden
Look out for Wild Arabia showing on local channels around the world sometime in 2013!
All the best,
Chadden
4 comments:
The Wild Arabia series is one of the best documentaries I've seen in a long time!
Excellent!
One of the best documentary film I have seen.Thanks
We are a small group, Environment & Health Committee in Cardwell, dedicated to stopping the destructive burning of Hinchinbrook Island in north Queensland together with most of the forests of the top end of Australia. Our research shows how destructive this practice has become with over 90% of the top end now being burnt every two years. No living thing can survive this treatment. This is having a dramatic effect on climate with forest cover in drastic decline. Stripping away these vast areas of forest exposes the rocky ground of the top end to the full sun. This heat is accumulated during the day and then transferred to the atmosphere at night. The rocks continue to transfer their heat until about three o'clock in the morning.
Wild life including the large macropods is being killed at an alarming rate with every mammal group now containing at least one threatened species. For instance on a 42 day pack walk through the remote Kimberley we saw only 6 red kangaroos when we expected to see thousands. The widespread acceptance of Aboriginal burning despite a complete lack of evidence is having devastating consequences for Australia. Current research for instance shows that despite claims by National Parks there are no plants in Australia with any adaptations to fire. The recently researched fire history of Australia shows there was no change in the natural frequency of fires here following Aboriginal settlement of the continent. There is evidence of aboriginal use of fire to hunt kangaroos but no evidence to support the theory of Aboriginal Traditional burning. The latest research into hazard reduction burning show that to achieve one hectare of protection you need to burn three to six hectares of forest, even this evidence fails to slow down this ever increasing practice. Australia presents itself as a model of environmental practice when under the skin the opposite is the case.
Hinchinbrook Island is home to the world famous Thorsborne trail. A large section of this trail has recently been destroyed by another QPWS fire which has killed the vast majority of a rare plant species, the Blue Banksia (banksia plagiocarpa) it also completely destroyed about twenty square kilometres of forest together with most wildlife. We desperately need some help.
Good Morning,
There is quite honestly a very slim chance of you ever seeing this. But as part of my schooling I am writing an essay on transnational organised animal crime and the impacts globalisation has had on it. Focusing in particular on Africa. As part of filming Planet Earth Two you spent a large amount of time in Africa and around animals such as Rhinos, which as you mostly likely know are hunted extensively for their horns and are being driven to extinction. Because of the time you have spent in around these animals I felt that you might bring a unique perspective towards my essay.
It would be great if you could answer a few of my questions, if possible. They are:
- What do you think has caused the recent growth in the illegal animal trade?
- Do you believe the trade is driven by demand, if so where from?
- Has globalization had an impact on the operation of the trade, in your opinion?
- What has to change to successfully prevent or reduce the trade?
- Is it better to eliminate the trade in terms of removing the ability to supply the products or reducing demand?
- How are non-government organizations and governments addressing the growing trade?
- What are some possible mechanisms, in your opinion, to help eliminate animal crime?
- What do you think of big game hunting as a method to raise funds for the conservation of these amazing animals?
- Do you have any other additional resources I could access for help with this essay?
It would be incredible if you could take a bit of time to answer some or all of these questions. And I'm sorry if I'm barking up the wrong tree.
Could you please contact me at emi.ly.loui.taylo.r@gmail.com.
I look forward to hearing from you and many thanks,
Emily
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