Nature — Season 8
20 episodesFirst aired 8 October 1989
E1The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
Oct 198953m
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
- E2
The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
Oct 198953m
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
- E3
The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
Oct 198953m
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
- E4
Under the Ice
Oct 198953m
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
- E5
Land of Dragons
Nov 198953m
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
- E6
The Great Wood of Caledon
Nov 198953m
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
- E7
Gorillas
Dec 198953m
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
- E8
Forest of Fear
Dec 198953m
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
- E9
Gran Paradiso
Jan 199053m
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
- E10
Cranes of the Grey Wind
Jan 199053m
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
- E11
King Solomon's Mountains
Feb 199053m
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
- E12
Hunters of the Sky
Feb 199053m
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
- E13
A Wolf in the Fold
Feb 199053m
The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.
- E14
The Colorado
Mar 199053m
Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
- E15
The Emerald Isle
Mar 199053m
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
- E16
Giant Otters
Mar 199053m
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
- E17
The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
Mar 199053m
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
- E18
Presque Isle: Land in Motion
Apr 199053m
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
- E19
Yellowstone on Fire
Apr 199053m
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
- E20
Serpents
Apr 199053m
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.
