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NATURE & WILDLIFE
our big blue backyard (series 1)

Six epic marine environments…each hosting a neighbourhood of marine animals
living out their daily dramas. Our Big Blue Backyard is a new blue-chip series that
dives deep into the seas to discover stunning stories of New Zealand’s native
ocean animals.

The series travels south to north, exploring six very special environments: it’s great
white shark versus little blue penguins in the southern oasis of Stewart Island; a

fur-seal summer off New Zealand’s wild west coast; a day out with the athletic
Dusky Dolphins of Kaikoura; quality time with the big old snapper and crayfish of Definition Episodes
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Goat Island; drama in the egg nurseries of the stunning Poor Knights Islands as Producer YOP
parents try to protect their young , and predator versus prey as surfing Orcas NHNZ Worldwide 2014
travel the golden harbours of Northland, searching for their stingray victims.

Each episode is structured around an ocean “neighbourhood” and features the
colourful and varied inhabitants as they interact in their unique locations. The
range and...