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Nature Season 8

October. 08,1989
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Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.

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Nature Season 8 Full Episode Guide

Episode 20 - Serpents
First Aired: April. 15,1990

A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.

Episode 19 - Yellowstone on Fire
First Aired: April. 08,1990

The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.

Episode 18 - Presque Isle: Land in Motion
First Aired: April. 01,1990

An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.

Episode 17 - The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
First Aired: March. 25,1990

Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.

Episode 16 - Giant Otters
First Aired: March. 18,1990

The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.

Episode 15 - The Emerald Isle
First Aired: March. 11,1990

Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.

Episode 14 - The Colorado
First Aired: March. 04,1990

Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

Episode 13 - A Wolf in the Fold
First Aired: February. 18,1990

The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.

Episode 12 - Hunters of the Sky
First Aired: February. 11,1990

A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.

Episode 11 - King Solomon's Mountains
First Aired: February. 04,1990

The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.

Episode 10 - Cranes of the Grey Wind
First Aired: January. 21,1990

Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.

Episode 9 - Gran Paradiso
First Aired: January. 07,1990

Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.

Episode 8 - Forest of Fear
First Aired: December. 17,1989

A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.

Episode 7 - Gorillas
First Aired: December. 10,1989

A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

Episode 6 - The Great Wood of Caledon
First Aired: November. 19,1989

An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.

Episode 5 - Land of Dragons
First Aired: November. 12,1989

Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong

Episode 4 - Under the Ice
First Aired: October. 29,1989

Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.

Episode 3 - The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
First Aired: October. 22,1989

Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.

Episode 2 - The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
First Aired: October. 15,1989

The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.

Episode 1 - The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
First Aired: October. 08,1989

The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.

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