Gangs of Lemur Island

Feuding families, civil war, and lovers’ trysts. This is not Romeo and Juliet; this is a troop of ring-tailed lemurs leading extraordinary lives on ‘Lemur Island’. Meet the lemurs of Berenty, a spiny forest reserve in Madagascar, where the primates are obsessed with social rank and status, and have shown to be adept at adapting to survive in an environment of extremes in a changing climate. Science and behaviour intersect in the gripping GANGS OF LEMUR ISLAND.

The Orchard

THE ORCHARD follows life in an apple orchard from spring to the autumn harvest season. Each month from May to September is an act in this dramatic story filled with love, loss, battles of nature, amazing characters, and a bountiful payoff. May is cultivation and blossom. June brings the animals. July is green with the bloom of summer, babies, changing weather, and farm work. August bears the fruit and brings in more animals and plants, fruit and vegetables in the orchard. September brings the harvest season in all its glory, before the cycle begins again.

Sky Safari

Experience breathtaking scenery and truly unique wildlife in this aerial odyssey across Earth’s misfit continent.

Wild New Zealand: Lost Paradise

The islands of New Zealand were the last major landmasses to be colonized by people. Their beaches, mountains and forests had laid untouched since the dawn of time…. isolated and protected. It was a fertile oasis for marine animals, and a South Pacific Garden of Eden for the land-lovers. Evolution ran riot to create some of the rarest and most unusual wildlife on Earth; making New Zealand a strange land of amazing creatures.

Shark Squad

Sharks are threatened globally - portrayed as mindless killers by the media and victimized by reckless overfishing. In some of the most-remote regions on the planet, researchers dive deep and brave danger to unlock secret shark behaviours, challenge myths about sharks, and fight for the protection of these supreme predators - before it’s too late.

National Parks From Above

Across the world, countries have turned some of their most incredible areas of natural beauty into national parks, preserving them for generations to come. From the frozen expanse of Iceland's Vatnajökull ice cap, to the steep limestone gorges of the Cévennes in southern France, this series will explore these areas by not only taking a cinematic journey from above, but also by swooping down closer to the ground to meet the people who use these landscapes every day, discovering the often extreme jobs they undertake and the unique lives they lead.

America's Wild Seasons

AMERICA’S WILD SEASONS is a landmark four-part documentary series that celebrates the drama and spectacle of the American wilderness. Captured over the course of a full year, on the ground, in the air and beneath the waves to weave tales of the diverse and iconic American landscape and the distinctive wildlife that call it home. AMERICA’S WILD SEASONS tells the story of a country that is varied and extreme, where seasonal trials are as big and amplified as the land itself.

Asia's Wild Secrets

Asia has some of the world’s most incredible wildlife and scenery: from Himalayan mountain peaks to tropical rain forests and islands fringed with coral reefs. In every environment live animals that have worked out how to survive there. In three episodes, ASIA'S WILD SECRETS reveals how water, mountains and islands shape the lives of animals from tigers to snow leopards, hot-pool dwelling macaques to Komodo dragons and many more creatures both iconic and obscure.

Walking With Elephants

Author and explorer Levison Wood embarks on a new expedition: an epic 650-mile journey on foot, following the world’s largest elephant migration. Lev fulfils a life-long ambition to get as close to these magnificent creatures as possible, and gains powerful insight into this still mysterious journey – one that the elephants have done for millennia, but no person has yet done on foot. Lev witnesses elephants under increasing threat from both natural and man-made dangers. Along the way, he also meets with locals and gets their uncensored view of whether humans and elephants can ever live in harmony. While millions of elephants once roamed across Africa, that number is now dwindling, and by 2040 these iconic creatures could all be gone. WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS reveals a deeper understanding of the elephants' remarkable lives, and timely insight into how we may secure their future.

Malawi Wildlife Rescue

This series follows Head Vet Amanda Salb and the rest of the dedicated staff at Malawi’s only animal rescue centre. Amanda and the team will stop at nothing to save injured and orphaned animals and get them back into the wild, where they belong.