Natural History and Wildlife

Canada: Surviving the Wild North

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The documentary showcases Canada's stunning wildlife in a land of boom and bust, where survival is all about being in tune with the environment and helping each other.

Canada is a vast country. It has the largest intact forest on the planet, more than two million lakes and rivers and the longest coastline on Earth.

The film begins in high summer in Hudson bay in Canada’s Far North, where polar bears have learned to ambush beluga whales, which visit warm river estuaries to breed. As Canada warms, its Pacific coastline also comes alive. In winter the temperatures plunge, across the vast boreal forests that cover much of central Canada. A Canada lynx hunts a snowshoe hare in an age-old duel, a great grey owl uses its impeccable hearing to try and catch a red-backed vole, northern flying squirrels share their collective warmth to survive in tree holes, and a pack of wolves work together to strategically drive a herd of caribou from a frozen lake in to deep forest snow. 

 

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Programme Details

DURATION
1 x 60'
BROADCASTERS
Servus TV
WNET
PBS
Amazon Prime Video
AVAILABLE IN
4K / HD
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
English