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In part one of this video series, Puremovement blends hip hop movement with traditional African culture. Rennie Harris, artistic director, discusses his influences, inspirations, and technique. Watch dancers perform excerpts of Gestures, Endangered Species, and P-Funk. Performed in 1998 at Performance Space 122.
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Join host Greg Grainger as he swims with manta rays and whales, tracks endangered seals and kangaroos, and watches birds that fly backwards. Explore four of Australia's 20,000 islands, all with an abundance of wildlife: Lady Elliot Island, with its colonies of seabirds, manta rays, turtles, and humpback whales; Kangaroo Island with its subspecies of kangaroos, as well as koalas and endangered sea lions; the idyllic Lord Howe Island, with the endangered...
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Maya is 10 weeks old and pushing the Clark family to their limits. They are invited to appear on BBC Breakfast to raise the profile of all big cats around the world. Giles takes in a cheetah cub called Willow and it is back to late nights as he builds her trust. Giles goes to Kenya with GPS collars he has funded and darts and collars a female in a pride that needs his help. Maya is given the all clear on her health by the vet.
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Everyone loves giraffes, but what do we really know about them? Dr Julian Fennessy starts to reveal their secrets - the most important being that they are disappearing. In an urgent and daring mission, with a determined Ugandan team, he plans to round up 20 of the world's rarest giraffe to take across and beyond the mighty Nile River. The stakes are high, but if they succeed the reward will be a brighter future for an animal we have somehow overlooked....
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Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan follows a wild polar bear family over three seasons, something no one has done before. Gordon and arctic survival experts travel by boat to far flung Svalbard. They manage to find a polar bear birth den and meet mother Lyra and her cubs Miki and Luca as they emerge from their den. Little is known about the family life of polar bears because no one has been able to follow them this closely before. Gordon helps scientists...
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Jaguars are South America's supreme predator, but they are also one of the most elusive animals on the planet. We follow a pioneering team in Brazil as it tracks and follows individual wild jaguars to gain amazing new insights into their lives. With jaguars increasingly under threat, every cat counts. So when two young jaguar cubs are tragically orphaned, the team needs to use all its newfound knowledge to help the cubs return to the wild.
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Join an interrnational task force in taking down two kingpins in the illegal trade of exotic animals. The task force is charged with bringing down a violent syndicate suspected of smuggling one of nature's rarest species into two of Thailand's most notorious trading sites: Chatuchak Market and Walking Street. After nearly two years of investigation and preparation, the team sets up meetings with suspected traders from each market who are dealing in...
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Having witnessed land-clearing firsthand in Africa and South America, tropical biologist Bill Laurance thought he had seen everything-the worst that deforestation has to offer. But, as he explains in this eye-opening program, what has been allowed to happen on the Indonesian island of Sumatra amounts to "ecological Armageddon." In addition to Laurance's testimonial on the size and scale of forest removal, viewers also learn about aggressive land-acquisition...