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The British Garden: Life And Death On Your Lawn 1 x 89’, 2017, HD The island of Borneo has spent more time in the tropics than any other region on Earth – some 120 million years. In this time, the conditions have combined to create a realm full of bizarre species. The world’s tallest tropical tree and the smallest bears all live here. Millions of years of rainfall have washed away vital nutrients, fuelling an intense competition for life. On Borneo’s mountains, carnivorous plants use raindrops to catch prey. In the rainforests, male orangutans call out to deter would be rivals. On the coast, millions of jellyfish are turning to the sun to get the nutrients they need. But it is in and around Borneo’s caves that the competition for nutrients is at its most intense. At dusk, as hundreds of thousands of bats leave the cave, they are hunted down by pied hornbills – birds with giant bills designed for picking off small fruits and insects. Terra Mater Factual Studios The largest single concentration of whooper swans in China live on a newly and unintentionally created wetland. A remarkable place in the heart of central China, Sanmenxia Wetland Park consists of a 385 square kilometer reservoir, two artificial lakes and surrounding wetlands. It is estimated that over 10,000 whooper swans inhabit the park. ‘China’s Swan Lake’ shows the lives of a whooper swans family that live on the lake along with invasive black swans and blue herons. The British back garden is a familiar setting, but underneath the peonies and petunias is a much wilder hidden world, a miniature Serengeti, with beauty and brutality in equal measure. In this documentary, Chris Packham and a team of wildlife experts spend an entire year exploring every inch of a series of interlinked back gardens. They want to answer fundamental questions: how much wildlife lives beyond our back doors? How good is the great British garden for wildlife? Windfall Films The Cantabrian Mountains extend along the Atlantic coast of northern Spain for nearly 500 km’s from the east Pyrenees to Galicia. Home to a variety of wildlife including chamois, red deer, wildcats and wolves, the Cantabrians are also the westernmost European habitat of brown bears. Harsh conditions will drive prey into the valleys and into the jaws of hungry wolves. As the snow starts to melt, creatures that spent the winter in hibernation emerge from their dens. Female Brown bears, anxious to feed themselves and their cubs, seek out the first fresh grasses. Starvation is not the only threat, male bears in search of partners can attack and kill young bears. Atlantic salmon migrate from ocean to hinterland to reach their ancestral spawning grounds. The journey will take them into the path of certain danger, along treacherous rapids where ravenous bears await. Borneo: Earth’s Ancient Isle 1 x 60’, 2019, 4K Cantabria: Spain’s Magical Mountains 1 x 60’, or 2 x 60’ or 1 x 90’, 2018, HD China’s Swan Lake 1 x 60’, 2018, HD LIC China Terra Mater Factual Studios/Wanda Visión S.A. Nature & Wildlife