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And then finally we look at how Greenland, the world’s largest island in the Arctic Ocean, is being affected by climate change. This culminates in a big calving event, with big bits of ice falling off the front of the ice sheet. We look at how this is affecting the Arctic’s wildlife, specifically a family of polar bears, and how hunting is getting harder and harder for them. The waters surrounding Antarctica may be the richest of all but they also home to the killer whale, an exceptionally sophisticated predator. To reach Weddell seals - their favoured prey - a family of killer whales have learnt to generate their own waves, washing the seals off their ice floes. ‘Wave-washing’ is a technique that has been passed down over generations and is coordinated by the family matriarch who can be over 100 years old.

Our hope is that we can show people that the diversity of frozen habitats is huge. There's a frozen habitat on every continent on Earth and we literally cover all the continents in this series. Hopefully people realise that they're much closer to these places than they might think and that there's a greater diversity of life and animals that relies on and lives in these worlds. As a side, hopefully, that will encourage people to keep protecting them. Because climate change doesn't just affect the poles, it also affects all these other frozen worlds around the world. They're all at risk. The Boreal forest is the largest forest on Earth containing some 750 million trees. It circles the globe from North America and Canada, across Europe and into Russia. Highlights include drone footage of an avalanche's deadly wall of tumbling snow in Greenland and an amazing piece that follows a musk ox through a blizzard (the camera operator lived in a garden shed which he towed around on snowmobile). But it's the Siberian tigers that steal the show – there are only 550 left in the world and it took the Frozen Planet II producers three years to capture them on camera. This series will reveal how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there. We will discover why Australasia is full of peculiar and venomous wildlife; why North America is a land of opportunity where pioneers succeed; and what the consequences are for life racing to compete on the richest of all continents, South America.

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Earth Prom, part of the BBC Proms season, is a stunning audio-visual celebration of the BBC’s world-famous Natural History Unit, from David Attenborough’s pioneering early adventures through to the landmark series of the 21st century. With breath-taking images, natural sounds, spoken words and music by composers including Hans Zimmer, performed live in the spectacular surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall by Ben Palmer and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Dog sleds are a key means of travel for Inuit communities living on Greenland’s West coast (BBC Studios) BBC's Frozen Planet is beautiful and all, but it's not saying anything new – review". The Independent. 11 September 2022 . Retrieved 19 September 2022. Thermal drones were used to follow pumas hunting at night and enable the ground team to get into position;The last film is a very powerful watch. I think that anybody who knows anything about these regions will probably say the situation is bleak in many ways. But what we've tried to set up from the beginning is that these people are striving to turn things around before it's too late. And in the final messages of this series we are trying to inject a sense of hope. We've got scientists talking about the fact that at our fingertips we do have the technology to be using renewables, to be transforming society, and that there is the will. The will is greater now than ever. What's so powerful is that it comes from the scientists themselves. These are people who literally, day by day, see the ice disappearing but they still have hope that we can do something about this. Due to climate change grizzly bears are expanding their range into areas that historically have not seen their presence. Reports have been made in recent years of grizzlies making their way to the Canadian High Arctic, an area that was once limited to the polar bear. Behind The Scenes Wave-washing’ involves multiple individuals swimming in tandem and then coordinating their tail beats to create waves which then go on to wash seals off ice floes. Family groups are led by matriarchs who can live to be over hundred years old. Only about 100 killer whales in the Antarctic peninsula use this complex hunting technique. Above the boreal forest, we cross into the Arctic Circle, where conditions become so extreme that trees can no longer grow. This is the tundra. Living here are relics of the last ice age, musk ox. In spring, their calves face a far greater danger than the cold, grizzly bears. Encounters can be brutal, but if just a few calves survive the gauntlet, the herd’s future is secure.

The waters surrounding Antarctica may be the richest of all, but they are also home to an exceptionally sophisticated predator, the killer whale. To reach their favoured prey, the Weddell seal, a family of killer whales have learnt to generate their own waves, washing the seals off their ice floes. It’s a technique that has been passed down over generations and is coordinated by the family matriarch, who can be over 100 years old. Old photographs of glaciers were used to compare to what they look today. Revisiting locations to match-frame and then blending between images the series reveals profound changes in glaciers from South Georgia and the European Alps. Frozen Planet II will be on BBC One and iPlayer soon with 6 x 60 minute episodes, airing weekly. A BBC Studios Natural History Unit production, co-produced by BBC America and The Open University. The Executive Producer is Mark Brownlow and the Series Producer is Elizabeth White.BBC Studios Natural History Unit production for BBC One, co-produced by BBC America and The Open University, Migu Video, ZDF and France Télévisions. The Executive Producer is Mark Brownlow and the Series Producer is Elizabeth White. Frozen Planet II has been licensed worldwide by various broadcasters including BBC America in North America, ZDF in Germany, France Télévisions in France, Migu Video in China, NHK in Japan, Friday! in Russia, [6] Mediaset in Italy, [7] KBS in South Korea, [8] and the Nine Network in Australia. [9] Mountain-dwelling animals that cope with high altitude and icy temperatures are spotlighted including Japanese macaques, the kea parrot in New Zealand, plus pumas and flamingos in Chile. In Antarctica light-weight drones enabled the team to gain a never-seen-before perspective on the incredible ‘wave-washing’ behaviour of killer whales.