Nieuw! David Attenborough in Nature's Great Events

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Bevestiging van het tweede deel van de documentaire via BBC op woensdagavond
18-02-2009 in Nederland/Belgie vanaf 22:00 uur

waarschijnlijke uitzenddatum van de herhaling deel 2: 21-02-2009 gewijzigd in 22-02-2009
(in Nederland/Belgie vanaf 19:00 uur)

waaarschijnlijke uitzenddata en herhalingsdata (deze laatste ook via BBC1)

deel 3 25-02-2009 (originele versie) 28-02-2009 (herhaling) gewijzigd in 01-03-2009
deel 4 04-03-2009 (originele versie) 07-03-2009 (herhaling)
deel 5 11-03-2009 (originele versie) 14-03-2009 (herhaling)
deel 6 18-03-2009 (originele versie) 21-03-2009 (herhaling)

Inhoud van deel 2:

Every year, the survival of grizzly bears in North America depends on a spectacular natural event: the return of hundreds of millions of salmon from the Pacific Ocean to the mountain streams where they were born.

This great return provides food not only for bears, but for killer whales, wolves, bald eagles and the very forest itself. Will the salmon return in time to keep the hungry bears alive?

Inhoud van deel 3:

Each year over one million wildebeest and zebra invade the Serengeti grasslands, making it a paradise for the predators the live there. But what happens when the herds move off again? We follow the moving story of one lion family's struggle to survive until the return of the great migration.

Nature's Great Events tells the story of the epic trek of herds that follow the rains to fresh pastures, and the tale of the predators they leave behind.

The crew captures the desperate plight of a single pride of lions, revealing a different side to the Serengeti. Rather than being a predators' paradise, it is a land in constant change, with wildebeest following the rains and leaving the lions to tough it out.

The Ntudu pride has seven cubs, and is already suffering as the wildebeest leave to find fresh pastures. The four pride females struggle to find enough food for their hungry offspring.

As weeks turn to months, the pride members become more emaciated and frailer, and the number of cubs dwindles to just two.

As the herds begin to return, the plains reveal one final secret. For the first time since 1967 the Serengeti's only active volcano, Ol Doinyo Lengai, begins to billow ash and smoke. Filmed from the air, the team captures the exciting action. Fertilised by the volcanic ash over millions of years, these short grass plains are among the most productive grasslands in the world.

After months of hardship, the pride's tragic story, through sickness, drought and fire, is over as the herds return, providing plentiful food.

The final 10 minute diary, Pride and Peril, tells the harrowing story captured by film-maker Owen Newman of the Ndutu pride which he followed for over a year.

link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hvw59

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Deel 1 op het net, 'normaal' en 720p HDTV:

NZB: http://www.nzbtvseeker.com/NZB/Natures+Great+Events/

BitTorrent: http://www.mininova.org/search/nature%20events/8