Season 3
Nature Watch
Episodes
Jonathan Scott
Each year, three million wildebeest journey through the Serengeti towards the Masai Mara in Kenya, before returning near the end of the year. The great love of Jonathan Scott, a young Englishman, is the big cats that prey upon them.
The Mountain Gorilla
Julian Pettifer travels to the high volcanoes of central Africa, habitat of the mountain gorilla. He is surrounded by these engaging and inquisitive animals, and even has a visit from the troop's leader, a giant 400lb male silverback.
Eugenie Clark
Dr Eugenie Clark is in love with sharks - the bigger the better. She takes us on a dive to the world's most beautiful underwater garden, Ras Mohammed in the Red Sea, and tells the story of the 65-foot whale shark she once rode.
Straun Sutherland
Dr Struan Sutherland is one of the world's leading experts on the poisons produced by Australia's deadly creatures - and the antidotes. Venomous snakes and spiders, and lethal octopuses, fish and jellyfish all feature in this programme.
The California Condor
More money and tender loving care has been spent on the California Condor than on any other creature on earth yet this magnificent bird seems set to become extinct in the wild, as numbers have fallen below a viable breeding population.
Roger Payne
In the blue waters of Hawaii, huge whales are singing beautiful, complex songs. Julian Pettifer meets the world's leading expert on whales, Dr Roger Payne, to swim with these majestic singing creatures and discuss their troubled future.
John Simmonds
John Simmonds, keeper of the outdoor collection at Kew's Royal Botanic Gardens, shows presenter Julian Pettifer a treasure trove of rare and beautiful plants - many of which exist nowhere else on Earth - with tips on how they are grown.
Mark Stanley-Price
Julian Pettifer travels deep into the Arabian 'empty quarter' with ecologist Mark Stanley-Price to visit a herd of white oryx, or unicorns, successfully bred from animals raised in zoos after wild oryx becoming extinct in Oman in the 70s.
Anne Rasa
In the company of Welsh nature-watcher Anne Rasa in Africa's Tsava National Park, Julian Pettifer is introduced to the pygmy mongoose - a tight-knit family of fighters, teachers and caring mothers that even seems to have its own language.
Bill Oddie
Julian Pettifer wanders down memory lane with Bill Oddie of the Goodies fame to discover a madly intense "birder" who learned the joys and skills of birdwatching as a teenager and became one of Britain's best-known "twitchers".
Solomon ole Saibull
Soloman old Saibull, the Masai conservator in charge of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, has been forced to make the agonising choice between the well-being of his own proud tribe and that of Ngorongoro's unique animals.
Mike Augee
In Australia, we take a close look at one of the world's most peculiar animals, the furry duck-billed platypus - and its comical close relation, the spiky echidna. Dr Mike Augee has spent most of his life examining these elusive creatures.
Alison Jolly
On the unique island of Madagascar, lemurs live in threatened isolation. Fascinating aspects of lemur behaviour can still be spotted in humans, says Alison Jolly, who has spent over twenty years studying them and their vanishing paradise.