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Pink Flamingo

Pink Flamingo

A series devoted to the world’s most popular animals: from lions to lemurs, camels to flamingos, tigers to kangaroos. Each episode illustrates four different species at Bussolengo Nature Park, where experts carefully protect and maintain 260 different species of our most amazing animals.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : 7_plus

Mongoose

Mongoose

A series devoted to the world’s most popular animals: from lions to lemurs, camels to flamingos, tigers to kangaroos. Each episode illustrates four different species at Bussolengo Nature Park, where experts carefully protect and maintain 260 different species of our most amazing animals.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : 7_plus

Rhino

Rhino

A series devoted to the world’s most popular animals: from lions to lemurs, camels to flamingos, tigers to kangaroos. Each episode illustrates four different species at Bussolengo Nature Park, where experts carefully protect and maintain 260 different species of our most amazing animals.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : 7_plus

Kangaroo

Kangaroo

A series devoted to the world’s most popular animals: from lions to lemurs, camels to flamingos, tigers to kangaroos. Each episode illustrates four different species at Bussolengo Nature Park, where experts carefully protect and maintain 260 different species of our most amazing animals.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : 7_plus

Zebra

Zebra

A series devoted to the world’s most popular animals: from lions to lemurs, camels to flamingos, tigers to kangaroos. Each episode illustrates four different species at Bussolengo Nature Park, where experts carefully protect and maintain 260 different species of our most amazing animals.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : 7_plus

Kids in Conservation

Kids in Conservation

Marlice brings her kids up in the way she grew up - with a love and respect for animals. Her sons Zacheo and Nicklai and their friends are fortunate to be on a place like Naankuse where they are in constant contact with a large variety of wild and domestic animals. In this episode Marlice, her two kids and a friend start by feeding and playing with 2 baby warthogs, a baby porcupine and a kitten in her lounge.

Duration : 21m
Maturity Level : all

A Day in the Life of Rudie

A Day in the Life of Rudie

Rudie has his job cut out for the day. In order to move Jupiter, a caracal that arrived at Naankuse 6 months ago to a bigger enclosure Wild Dogs have to be moved to a cheetah enclosure, the cheetahs into a caracal enclosure and the caracals into another wild dog enclosure. After collecting some volunteers to help Rudie goes to the two cheetahs where he puts out capture cages with bait inside - hopefully the cheetahs will go into the cages.

Duration : 22m
Maturity Level : all

A Day in the Life of Marlice

A Day in the Life of Marlice

Marlice often gets calls from members of the public who have animals that they can\'t look after any more - she then fetches these animals and take them to Naankuse where they are cared for. Today is such a day. She and the kids drive to a farmer in the North of Namibia who has 9 porcupines, 7 adults and 2 babies, that he keeps in an old farm dam - its time for them to move to a new and better home.

Duration : 21m
Maturity Level : all

Baboons

Baboons

The one animal species that Marlice gets the most of in at Naankuse is baboons. The episode starts with her arriving at Naankuse with a baby baboon. She tells us his story and gives him a bottle of milk before she takes him to the baby baboons where she introduces him to the leader of the troop. To her relief the leader immediately adopts the baby. Marlice then takes us to the juvenile group where she explains the hierarchy of a baboon troop in captivity as well as why baboons groom each other.

Duration : 21m
Maturity Level : all

Lions

Lions

Rudie and Marlice fly to Hobatere, a concession area on the Western border of the Etosha National Park. Here they meet with Mesag Saal - a farmer, land owner and conservationist. They go on a game drive and stop at a waterhole. We are introduced to AfriCat, a non-profit organization whose aim is to conserve and protect Namibia\'s large carnivores within their natural habitats. Rudie and Marlice go with some of their rangers and lion monitors to the carcass of a kudu that had been killed by lions.

Duration : 22m
Maturity Level : all

Cheetahs

Cheetahs

At Naankuse the conservation of cheetahs involves researching them in the wild, managing them in captivity, rehabilitation back into nature and managing conflict situations with farmers. In this Episode Marlice joins Stuart Munro, one of the resident scientists at Naankuse as he measures cheetah footprints for a database.

Duration : 23m
Maturity Level : all

Marlice & her mother

Marlice & her mother

For Marlice, a visit to Harnas, her mother\'s Wildlife Sanctuary where she grew up, is a trip down memory lane as well as an opportunity to reconnect with old friends. She and her mother Marieta, start the day by visiting the band of mongooses and feeding them on the lawn. Then the troop of young baboons is taken for a walk, in this way they get exercise and get rid of their frustrations. Marieta then shows Marlice the pond with crocodiles, including some babies.

Duration : 20m
Maturity Level : all

Harnas

Harnas

Marlice\'s mother, Marieta needs some assistance with two animals at Harnas - her wildlife sanctuary, and Marlice and Rudie offer their help. One is a wild female baboon that comes into the semi-tame baboons enclosure in search of food. Because she is not part of the troop they are bullying her to the extent that she may die - she has to be taken out of the enclosure and be put in her own. The other animal that Marieta needs help with is a young leopard that has to be moved to a bigger enclosure.

Duration : 21m
Maturity Level : all

Wild Dog & Hyena

Wild Dog & Hyena

The African Wild Dog, also known as Painted Dogs, is one of the most threatened animal species in Namibia, listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. Therefore every effort is made to conserve every individual dog that might be in danger. When Marlice gets a call from a farmer who has two young wild dogs that he keeps in an old farm dam she and Rudie waste no time in flying to the farm to collect the pups.

Duration : 21m
Maturity Level : all

Tommy Collard

Tommy Collard

When it comes to tour guides in Namibia Tommy Collard is a legend. Based in Swakopmund his area of expertise are the surrounding sand dunes of the Namib Desert, the oldest desert in the world. He starts his tour by showing the kids Zacheo and Nicklai the so-called desert newspaper - tracks left by insects and reptiles in the sand the night before. He and Zacheo follow a track up a dune and where it ends they dig out a little lizard that they immediately release.

Duration : 23m
Maturity Level : all

Costal Conservation

Costal Conservation

Marlice, Rudie and their kids visit the Walvis Bay region on the West coast of Namibia to explore this desolate shoreline and meet some of the people who are experts in the fauna and flora there. First they visit Sandwich Harbor a saline wetland that was declared a wetland of international importance by RAMSAR in 1995. Near the wetland their guide shows Rudie and Marlice how to find fresh water in this seemingly dry terrain.

Duration : 22m
Maturity Level : all

Elephants

Elephants

We start with a brief look at the plight of elephants in Namibia - the decline in their numbers and the reasons for it, like farmer-elephant conflict situations. In an effort to track their movements and thereby try to reduce human-animal conflicts 6 radio collars have been donated end these have to be fitted. Rudie and Marlice join officials from the Department of Environment and Tourism, and others in the Kunene region of Namibia to dart and collar six elephant cows.

Duration : 21m
Maturity Level : all

Rhino\'s & Zebra\'s

Rhino\'s & Zebra\'s

As elsewhere in Africa, Namibia\'s rhinos are under severe threat from poaching. Rudie and Marlice join conservationist and officials from the Department of Environment and Tourism at a secret location that is thought to be unsafe. Here they dart a black rhino from a helicopter for translocation to a safer area. While the animal is sedated it provides scientists wit an ideal opportunity to collect samples and data. Part of its horn is also cut off to discourage poaching attempts.

Duration : 22m
Maturity Level : all

Great Gobi National Park: Mongolia – Following the Wild Camels

Great Gobi National Park: Mongolia – Following the Wild Camels

Great Gobi National Park: Mongolia – Following the Wild Camels

Duration : 44m
Maturity Level : all

Kaziranga National Park: India – Where Wild Things Roam

Kaziranga National Park: India – Where Wild Things Roam

The rare one-horned rhinoceros is being poached in Kaziranga National Park. Herds of elephants are on the move and a new born baby elephant has lost its mother. Some people who live in Kaziranga are willing to risk their lives to make sure the wild animals stay safe. While others must guard their families against danger in the night.

Duration : 43m
Maturity Level : all

Gaoligongshan Park: China – Himalaya\'s Gold

Gaoligongshan Park: China – Himalaya\'s Gold

Gaoligongshan Park: China – Himalaya\'s Gold

Duration : 44m
Maturity Level : all

Tun Sakaran Marine Park: Malaysia – Paradise Found

Tun Sakaran Marine Park: Malaysia – Paradise Found

One of the world\'s most diverse reef systems off the coast of Borneo has just become protected - Tun Sakaran Marine Park. It\'s a magical paradise where an ancient volcano once erupted. Hundreds of species of corals and fish live here and so do many people who rely on the sea to survive. But in Tun Sakaran Marine Park precious marine creatures now come first and humans must find new ways to live.

Duration : 43m
Maturity Level : all

Aso-Kuju and Unzen-Amakusa National Parks: Japan – Under the Volcano

Aso-Kuju and Unzen-Amakusa National Parks: Japan – Under the Volcano

On the top of a smoking volcano, on the southern island of Kyushu in Japan, a Shinto priest performs rights that keep his community safe. 200 years ago his town was completely destroyed. The last eruption here was in 1991. Forty-three scientists, firemen and media workers died in the fire and ash. A volcanologist who witnessed the death of his colleagues is concerned. Yet another volcano on Kyoto now threatens to erupt. But nature has created rare beauty here.

Duration : 22m
Maturity Level : all

Kinabatangan River: Borneo – Forgotten Paradise

Kinabatangan River: Borneo – Forgotten Paradise

Kinabatangan River: Borneo – Forgotten Paradise

Duration : 44m
Maturity Level : all